A school kid made an electronic clock and brought it to school.
The school thought he had made a bomb.
They didn't evacuate the school like you would think
They didn't call a bomb squad
They didn't try to distance themselves from him
They put him and the clock in an office
They then waited for the police to arrive
They put the clock in the same car as the police and took pictures of it.
They never thought he had a bomb, what were they doing?
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A kid takes a clock and puts it in a case
It is not for any school assignment
He takes it to school
The school can SEE it's not a bomb
He is detained and the police called because he brought a "hoax bomb" on campus
Why did he put it in the case?
Why did he want it mistaken for a bomb?
Why did he want to stir up s*** by bringing a hoax bomb to school?
What was HE doing?
What did he expect would happen?
http://www.dallasnews.com/news...-clock-to-school.ece
He showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning and didn’t get quite the reaction he’d hoped for.
“He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’”
He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.
“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.
“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”
The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.
Read the comment from Tall Dave 7 for more of the story.
Jt, if you are really interested in the facts, and what REALLY happened, get off those lefty, one-sided, uninformed sites.
Did school officials think the poptart eaten into the shape of a gun was really a gun?
Did school officials think the poptart eaten into the shape of a gun was really a gun?
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There you go! And no out cry or invitation to the white house.
Maybe jt can explain it to us.
Kid chews pop tart into shape of a gun and is suspended. He's 7 years old.
Kid takes clock out of it's case and puts it in another, making it look as close to a bomb as he can, and is warned it looks like a bomb and told not to show it to anyone else. He doesn't listen. He was 14. He's invited to the white house.
Difference? Anyone? Anyone?
I think this was blown way out of proportion. My son was a nerd, I can see him doing that in school- taking in something he invented, something he was proud of to show to a teacher.
Ahmed's father said "He just wants to invent good things for mankind."
What did ahmed "invent"?
Maybe jt can explain it to us.
Kid chews pop tart into shape of a gun and is suspended. He's 7 years old.
Kid takes clock out of it's case and puts it in another, making it look as close to a bomb as he can, and is warned it looks like a bomb and told not to show it to anyone else. He doesn't listen. He was 14. He's invited to the white house.
Difference? Anyone? Anyone?
I don't believe he tried to "make it look as close to a bomb as he can". That's what it looked like to that teacher. The kid kept saying it wasn't a bomb, it was a clock. He doesn't listen? The teacher didn't listen. He's invited to the White House to show kids that using their brains and imagination is important. U.S. kids are way below in science compared to some other countries.
When my son was about 3 he ran into the house all excited. "Come see!" he said. I went out and he started skipping, delightedly. He thought he invented it.
If you see a suspicious looking parcel don't report it, you may be sued by somebody that left their lunch behind.
I don't believe he tried to "make it look as close to a bomb as he can".
I believe he did.
That's what it looked like to that teacher. The kid kept saying it wasn't a bomb, it was a clock. He doesn't listen? The teacher didn't listen.
She knew it wasn't a bomb and didn't claim it was. He was detained for bringing a "hoax bomb" on campus. The first teacher told him what it looked like and told him not to show it to anyone else. He didn't listen.
He's invited to the White House to show kids that using their brains and imagination is important. U.S. kids are way below in science compared to some other countries.
How many brains does it take to take a clock out of one case and put it in another? He invented NOTHING.
When my son was about 3 he ran into the house all excited. "Come see!" he said. I went out and he started skipping, delightedly. He thought he invented it.
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This kid was 14, not three, and knew he hadn't invented the clock.
He invented "a" clock. What do you think, that he purposely took something into school that looked like a bomb and tried to pass it off as a clock? Would you be as passionate about this if he was a white kid?
He invented "a" clock. What do you think, that he purposely took something into school that looked like a bomb and tried to pass it off as a clock? Would you be as passionate about this if he was a white kid?
He didn't invent a clock. He invented a repurposing of a pencil case to replace a clock housing. To laud this as invention is simplistic and pathetic.
He invented "a" clock. What do you think, that he purposely took something into school that looked like a bomb and tried to pass it off as a clock? Would you be as passionate about this if he was a white kid?
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How passionate am I? I'm pointing out the freaking facts, something you want to overlook so you can blow this up all out of proportion and make it into something that it isn't, and start your ignorant claims of racism. Yes, I always get the facts of a story, especially one that makes no sense, and I don't go running off half-cocked making asinine claims about how some kid was arrested for "inventing" a clock, when that is absolutely NOT what happened. What part of "he invented nothing" are you struggling with? Taking four screws off the case of a digital clock, removing it and placing it in another case, is NOT inventing anything. If he was such a great "inventor" why hadn't he invented something before this, and had a reputation as a young inventor? IF this had been about race, why was he never bothered before? He thought he was being cute, was going to give them a scare, and it backfired on him.
I glued magnets on the back of a "gaily painted" clothes pins and invented note holders.
I invented an airplane.
Wow! Did you enter it in the science fair??
Wow! Did you enter it in the science fair??
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No, my teacher took it away from me, but I'm expecting an invitation to the White House.
Wow! Did you enter it in the science fair??
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No, my teacher took it away from me, but I'm expecting an invitation to the White House.
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What did they say? You'd put someone's eye out with it? The white house eh? So, you look like obama too?
Wow! Did you enter it in the science fair??
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No, my teacher took it away from me, but I'm expecting an invitation to the White House.
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What did they say? You'd put someone's eye out with it? The white house eh? So, you look like obama too?
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Probably got a whupping and I guess I can quit waiting on that invitation.
He invented "a" clock. What do you think, that he purposely took something into school that looked like a bomb and tried to pass it off as a clock? Would you be as passionate about this if he was a white kid?
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How passionate am I? I'm pointing out the freaking facts, something you want to overlook so you can blow this up all out of proportion and make it into something that it isn't, and start your ignorant claims of racism. Yes, I always get the facts of a story, especially one that makes no sense, and I don't go running off half-cocked making asinine claims about how some kid was arrested for "inventing" a clock, when that is absolutely NOT what happened. What part of "he invented nothing" are you struggling with? Taking four screws off the case of a digital clock, removing it and placing it in another case, is NOT inventing anything. If he was such a great "inventor" why hadn't he invented something before this, and had a reputation as a young inventor? IF this had been about race, why was he never bothered before? He thought he was being cute, was going to give them a scare, and it backfired on him.
I see you as an angry, negative person. Ok, you are right and everything you believe is correct and anyone who disagrees with you and what you think is wrong. Feel better? I am wrong and you are right. This topic is now solved. I am not struggling with anything now. 
I invented an airplane.
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This may sound like a clock of chet, but I plagiarized your design and twerked it >>>
the entire thing was a result of zero tolerance. The kid that chewed a pop tart into the shape of a firearm was suspended as was Ahmed. Doubling down on dumb.
Wow! Did you enter it in the science fair??
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No, my teacher took it away from me, but I'm expecting an invitation to the White House.
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What did they say? You'd put someone's eye out with it? The white house eh? So, you look like obama too?
Close,,,,He wrapped a rag around his head and poured water down his back.
I have read that there is some underachieving schools in America.
The majority of these posts prove that beyond a doubt.
I have read that there is some underachieving schools in America.
The majority of these posts prove that beyond a doubt.
Looks like you're right in there with us with your wrong tense of "is".
http://news.yahoo.com/video/te...maker-144029576.html
Another Texas teen is in the spotlight after questioning President Obama`s decision to invite 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed to the White House after he was arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school.
I have read that there is some underachieving schools in America.
The majority of these posts prove that beyond a doubt.
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Even an "underachieving" school would have helped you. What do you not like about the posts? Could it be the fact that they destroy the lies you posted?
Will Ahmed be arriving at the WH on the same bus with all of the recent murdered cops and Memphis GI's kids?
Even an "underachieving" school would have helped you. What do you not like about the posts? Could it be the fact that they destroy the lies you posted?
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I posted the story that was in the news about the science project. It might do you a world of good to read about current events instead of using your imagination so much.
Even an "underachieving" school would have helped you. What do you not like about the posts? Could it be the fact that they destroy the lies you posted?
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I posted the story that was in the news about the science project. It might do you a world of good to read about current events instead of using your imagination so much.
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It wasn't a science project. The kid took a danged clock out of one box and put it in another. To try to elevate this to a science project or invention is ludicrous. It just so happened that he made it look like a potential explosive device. The kid also happened to be Muslim. Using the same zero tolerance criteria that has been used on countless other non-Muslim kids he got in trouble.
Of course Obama wants this to be seen as a suppressed genius. He is hungry to see any kind of achievement, other than bomb making, for a Muslim so this gets blown out of proportion. The followers of the Muslim religion/cult are among the least educated of all people in the world.
Even an "underachieving" school would have helped you. What do you not like about the posts? Could it be the fact that they destroy the lies you posted?
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I posted the story that was in the news about the science project. It might do you a world of good to read about current events instead of using your imagination so much.
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Are you this dumb on purpose? My imagination? What I posted is in the articles, and I did something that for some reason you are unable to do, I posted the links so you could read it yourself. My imagination? Is it my imagination when I post what the kid himself said? Dang jt, just what is wrong with you? You want to argue with the kid's own account because it doesn't fit into your twisted version of what happened!
A school kid made an electronic clock and brought it to school.
No, he took a clock out of it's case and placed it in a box
The school thought he had made a bomb.
No they did not think he had made a bomb. They saw he had made a "hoax bomb".
They didn't evacuate the school like you would think
No need to evacuate, they knew there was no bomb.
They didn't call a bomb squad
No need, they knew there was no bomb.
They didn't try to distance themselves from him
No need, they knew there was no bomb.
They put him and the clock in an office
Proper procedure.
They then waited for the police to arrive
Proper procedure.
They put the clock in the same car as the police and took pictures of it.
Why not?
They never thought he had a bomb, what were they doing?
Following proper procedure when someone brings a hoax bomb onto the campus. Better question, what was the kid doing breaking the rules?
Zero tolerance is the crutch of the lazy and stupid.
Zero tolerance is the crutch of the lazy and stupid.
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I agree but if it is used it must be equally applied to Muslim and non-Muslim. Zero tolerance = zero common sense = zero accountability.
Am I missing something here? Just exactly what kind of “homemade experiment” was it supposed to be? He took a clock out of it’s case & put it in a box. What’s so great about that? Even a dumb azz could do that. I haven’t read where anyone has said exactly what he was trying to prove by taking it out of the case.
But I can see how someone would see that clock as a potential threat. With all the horrible shootings & violent acts committed in schools these days, I can easily see why someone might feel a threat. Nothing wrong with being vigilant in schools & the workplace. A small bomb could easily have been hidden in that clock. What’s ridiculous is that the teachers felt it was ok to handle what they termed a “hoax bomb”.
How easy will it be now for someone to actually build a bomb & carry it to school with said kid claiming it’s an “invention” before it goes off?
If that kid had been just plain “American Born & Bred”, no way would Obama have invited him/her to the WH.
When my son was about 3 he ran into the house all excited. "Come see!" he said. I went out and he started skipping, delightedly. He thought he invented it.
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Originally Posted by Bestworking:
This kid was 14, not three, and knew he hadn't invented the clock.
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I'm not speaking for peede because I could be wrong , just my opinion as I see it.
This kids homemade experiment, which could be termed as an invention, brought to Peede's mind his son's excitement over his learning to skip & in his son's little mind, he believed he came up with skipping all on his own. I can just imagine the sweetness of that moment.
And all I did was point out the difference in their ages. A three year old can be forgiven for thinking he invented skipping, this 14 year old knows he invented nothing.
