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re: Texas child arrested for building a clock and bringing to school
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:44 pm to LSUTANGERINE
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:44 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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o cover the school,
This hasn't needed to happen in the several of the cases where a school goes overboard with something like this. Why would it be needed here?
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Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:45 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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The facts are simple: Ahmed Mohammed, a 14- year-old at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was led away from school in handcuffs and suspended three days because he brought to school a clock he'd made at home. Rather than say, "We were stupid," rather than say, "We're so afraid of terrorism that we freaked out over a clock made by a Muslim child," officials in Irving seem to be blaming that child for not anticipating their hysterical response to his project.
You can summarize their responses this way: "What are you crazy, Ahmed? Don't you know we scared of y'all?! How could you do this to us?"
When it's they who've done it to him.
Ahmed, a fan of robotics, made a clock. He reportedly showed it to one teacher who told him to put it away. Later another teacher freaked out about it and called in help.
"We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb," said Irving police spokesman James McClellan. "He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation."
What broader explanation? The Dallas Morning News asked the spokesman. If Ahmed made a clock and he said he made a clock, what more was there to explain?
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Sure.. nothing to see here.. and Timothy McVea just had some fertilizer...
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:47 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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Later another teacher freaked out about it and called in help.
She should be fired. Pretty sure there are Muslims at Google, Oracle, Intel, Microsoft who make stuff every day without being a minor and arrested. It so fricked up.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:49 pm to Friscodog
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Sure.. nothing to see here.. and Timothy McVea just had some fertilizer...
This is the worst comparison of all-time. A psycho who killed children compared to a 14 year old student who made a clock? Jesus fricking Christ.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:51 pm to glassman
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:51 pm to glassman
You can always count on events like this to bring out the bigots of the OT
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:52 pm to glassman
I can't believe people are still talking about this. One or two idiots deep in the heart of Texas do not require us all to reflect, repent, or even pause.
We are all sucked into to shite we don't have to know about nowdays.
We are all sucked into to shite we don't have to know about nowdays.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:52 pm to Friscodog
A lot of you just need to keep running around in fear with your tin foil hats on while stockpiling nonperishables for your underground bomb shelters. It's comical.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:54 pm to Chicken
Nice... There are extremists of all religions and we all pay the price for it. No matter where you live. Some more than others, no doubt.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:55 pm to baybeefeetz
Can we stop calling this thing a clock? He didn't build a clock,he built a fake bomb and slapped a clock on it and brought it to school.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:56 pm to Chicken
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If you see something, say something: LINK
No problem with the school checking it out and asking the kid to show them how it works. But that's not what happened, is it?
Don't let me see you or your kid with a backpack. I'll turn your arse in so quickly.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:57 pm to Cap Crunch
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You can always count on events like this to bring out the bigots of the OT
No question. It is easy for the intellectually challenged to have false arguments. I'm not going to disagree that Islam has a skewed amount of whackos, but McVeigh was a whacko Christian and committed the second worst terrorist attack on American soil.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:57 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
If they really thought it was a bomb why didn't they evacuate the school? I mean, that would be the logical step #1, right?
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:58 pm to LSUTANGERINE
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No problem with the school checking it out and asking the kid to show them how it works. But that's not what happened, is it?
Hey kid, can you bring the bomb looking thing you got there real close to me and show me how it works?
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:58 pm to LSUTANGERINE
"oh hey Billy Whiteface, that's a neat homemade USB drive that looks like a switchblade. Can you show me how it works? Neat, well, go on about your day."
This would never happen, and you are basing your entire argument on the assumption that it would.
This would never happen, and you are basing your entire argument on the assumption that it would.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 7:59 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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Can we stop calling this thing a clock? He didn't build a clock,he built a fake bomb and slapped a clock on it and brought it to school.
Sad you think that. I get it because you have been where most of us haven't. But, this wasn't a bomb, it was a promising young student doing a project.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 8:01 pm to Cap Crunch
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If they really thought it was a bomb why didn't they evacuate the school? I mean, that would be the logical step #1, right?
Well maybe the school is really bad at bomb threat procedures. You really think that kid built a clock and put it in a briefcase with ball bearings innocently? He was trying for a reaction and he should be suspended at least. Hell, kids get suspended for making their pop tarts look like guns.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 8:03 pm to glassman
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Sad you think that. I get it because you have been where most of us haven't. But, this wasn't a bomb, it was a promising young student doing a project.
I'm pretty sure that's a bag of ball bearings in the suitcase. So unless his project was to make a fake bomb I'm not going to assume he's just a promising kid doing a project. I'm just finding out about this and I haven't read the thread.
Posted on 9/17/15 at 8:05 pm to Cap Crunch
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f they really thought it was a bomb why didn't they evacuate the school? I mean, that would be the logical step #1, right?
I imagine at some point, and probably pretty quickly, they realized it wasn't a bomb and moved on to trying to figure out why the little turd thought it was cute to bring in a bomb like "clock."
Posted on 9/17/15 at 8:08 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
Where does it say that he had ball bearings in the case?
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