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Ash Small

Thu Sept 17 2015, 12:33PM

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When Ahmed Mohamed went to his high school in Irving, Texas, Monday, he was so excited. A teenager with dreams of becoming an engineer, he wanted to show his teacher the digital clock he'd made from a pencil case.

The 14-year-old's day ended not with praise, but punishment, after the school called police and he was arrested.

"I built a clock to impress my teacher but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her," Ahmed told reporters Wednesday. "It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it."

Ahmed talked to the media gathered on his front yard and appeared to wear the same NASA T-shirt he had on in a picture taken as he was being arrested. In the image, he looks confused and upset as he's being led out of school in handcuffs.

"They arrested me and they told me that I committed the crime of a hoax bomb, a fake bomb,"

Mads Barnkob

Thu Sept 17 2015, 12:50PM

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Not the worlds most incognito clock enclosure, not that I in any way is defending the obvious ignorance shown by teachers, principal, police and prosecutors. One can only hope the judge knows better.

dexter

Thu Sept 17 2015, 01:54PM

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well that looks like a stereotypical bomb seen in action movies... but the teacher should easily know the difference

unless the clock plays allahu akbar sound at each exact hour and has countdown option... :)

edit.
the obvious question is: What specialization that teacher has?

Experimentonomen

Thu Sept 17 2015, 07:42PM

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To me it looks like the guts of a cheap alarm clock recased.

jpsmith123

Sat Sept 19 2015, 02:56AM

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It can't reasonably be deemed a fake bomb because it has no fake explosive. Seriously...just looking at the picture of the device, what part of it was supposed to explode, the "wires" themselves?

Justin

Sat Sept 19 2015, 04:39AM

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jpsmith123 wrote ...

It can't reasonably be deemed a fake bomb because it has no fake explosive. Seriously...just looking at the picture of the device, what part of it was supposed to explode, the "wires" themselves?

Det cord!

:p

Ash Small

Sat Sept 19 2015, 09:11AM

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I did hear they sat him in a room until the police arrived, with people with him, and the 'bomb/clock', He then went in the police car with the 'bomb/clock'.

Had they actually thought it was a real bomb, surely they would have evacuated the school/ detonated the device on the spot?

Something doesn't add up here.

Thomas W

Sat Sept 19 2015, 12:29PM

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Ash Small wrote ...

I did hear they sat him in a room until the police arrived, with people with him, and the 'bomb/clock', He then went in the police car with the 'bomb/clock'.

Had they actually thought it was a real bomb, surely they would have evacuated the school/ detonated the device on the spot?

Something doesn't add up here.

I think they knew it wasn't a bomb quite early on and considered it a faux bomb which is still a crime (scaring people and causing alarm.. pun intended)

dexter

Sat Sept 19 2015, 01:40PM

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Ash Small wrote ...

Something doesn't add up here.

what do you expect from 2015 journalism?
facts? that require work, feelings and opinions are free

jpsmith123

Sat Sept 19 2015, 06:33PM

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The thing is, if they *knew* it wasn't an actual bomb, especially if they knew "early on", then how can they even make the claim that it was a "fake bomb"? Or to put it another way, I would think that a "fake bomb" is only a problem if it would fool a reasonable person and cause him to take some kind of action.
So in this case, a claim of a "fake bomb" might be just a face-saving cover for ignorance and stupidity.

Thomas W wrote ...

I think they knew it wasn't a bomb quite early on and considered it a faux bomb which is still a crime (scaring people and causing alarm.. pun intended)

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