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"Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages
phrackthat writes: The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the boy who was arrested in Irving, Texas has threatened to sue the school and the city of Irving if they do not pay him $15 million as compensation for his arrest. To refresh the memories of everyone, Ahmed's clock was a clock he disassembled then put into a pencil case that looked like a miniature briefcase. He was briefly detained by the Irving city police to interview him and determine if he intended for his clock to be perceived as a fake bomb. He was released to his parents later on that day and they publicized the matter and claimed Ahmed was arrested because of "Islamophobia".
... the kid was not arrested ...
Purely on a factual level, yes he was arrested, after being questioned for an hour and a half (how is that even possible?), and was taken to a detention centre, fingerprinted, photographed, and questioned further.
He was not charged. Possibly that's what you meant.
The school certainly overreacted, but...
1) the kid was not arrested
Yes, he was. He was taken away from the school by the police in handcuffs. That's an arrest.
I think what you meant to say was, the kid was not charged. That's correct. He was arrested, but released without charges.
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Of course you do. But that's only because almost every person believes that THEIR opinion is a "reasonable" one.
I remember back in the day (I'm old) when a student would bring something distracting to school the teacher would confiscate it and the student collect it at the end of the day.
At worst, a student's parents would be called in.
But students were never arrested for bringing toys to school. That's just stupid.
... the kid was not arrested ...
Purely on a factual level, yes he was arrested, after being questioned for an hour and a half (how is that even possible?), and was taken to a detention centre, fingerprinted, photographed, and questioned further.
He was not charged. Possibly that's what you meant.
Bringing a hoax bomb to school is illegal. Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, was arrested and spent some hours with law enforcement when he brought a hoax bomb to his high school. A box that ticked, and then ticked faster when it was moved.
As for whether what this kid did was a hoax bomb, any Iraqi / Afghanistan vet can explain to you how the detonators of IEDs are sometimes made from the components of off-the-shelf consumer devices. So, its not unreasonable to see disassembled clock parts in a negative light.
History of the Big Bang Theory cites a Belgian Catholic Priest named Georges Lemaître as the originator of the theory.
Man blir trött av att gå och göra ingenting.
For the genetics part see Gregor Johann Mendel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Mendel was a monk.
That was the turning point of my life--I went from negative zero to positive zero.
Please excuse the karma whoring but you did ask: Gregor Mendel was a monk who did pioneering experiments on heredity. Although it seems obvious in retrospect, even after Darwin first published the theory of natural selection it wasn't until it was put together with Mendel's work that evolutionary theory as we understand it today came about.
You could also say "The big bang theory began with the Belgian Army", because he was also in that.
He was no longer in the Army. However he was teaching at a Catholic university at the time.
He actually was invited to visit the fair—which he declined—and Olivia's ebola test won first prize.
Peter predicted that you would "deliberately forget" creation 2000 years ago...
He did not receive first place, he was just the featured "scientist" of the photo in which the finalists appeared.
http://mashable.com/2015/09/22/ahmed-mohamed-google-science-fair/#1U20iipN1sqm
No, people admired that he built a clock, when in fact he just took apart a working clock to make a shitty clock that looked like a bomb, then took it to school to "show people."