pic of the clock that 14yr muslim kid got arrested for making at school fair

[TuHolmes]

Hmm, could be.  Still, there's the whole frontier/ Mexi-flood thing happening so maybe it's an electric blanket of immigrant issue stuff and such.  The actual truth is that I don't give a shit what happens to Texas.

This is a valid point.

I don't really care either, but I keep thinking of moving again and I'm thinking of some place new... I've never lived in Texas, and it's got some good points to it (gun laws for instance) so while it doesn't matter to me right now, maybe it will in the future?

Who knows.

[OneMoreRep]

Can't believe he'd build a clock that looks exactly like an electronic timing mechanism with a digital display.  

Exactly..

Why not build a clock that looks like this:



No. Instead, the kid builds a clock that looks remarkably like your average briefcase bomb:



Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:



We sometimes make water guns that look very realistic. It's the kind of thing that if you point the realistic-looking water gun at a law enforcement agent, it can cost you your life.

If your child goes out to play with his friends, you wouldn't send him out with this:



Instead, you would send him out with this:



I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?

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[240 is Back]

I'm like 'fck racism' cause I grew up in akron projects then florida trailer parks, and I know it's all about $, not race...  Every time some country club upper middle class kid on getbig that has never been evicted tells me about "race wars", I want to spit on their nice carpet...

BUT

IN this case, if it's a pretty white girl with nice boobs and dimples, that brings in a homemade clock, her ass isn't in handcuffs.  Let's be honest lol.   Particularly AFTER they realize it's not a bomb, and that he showed teachers voluntarily... they arrested him AFTER they knew it was a clock.

this kid is a douche and a dumbass, but if he doesn't have "arab name, arab name, arab name) as Trump put it... he isn't arrested.

[TuHolmes]

Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:




I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?

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That photo is not an accurate representation though.

That little thing is a pencil box... it's small, the picture makes it look larger than it is. You don't have a frame of reference on the size because no one is in the picture.

Also, no reports have him going around showing it to anyone.

According to all reports, it sat in his backpack as his science teacher told him not to show it to anyone. He left it there until the alarm went off when the English teacher requested he turn it off.

After that, the teacher took it and not until later in the day did someone come get him about it, so he could not possibly be showing it off to anyone.

Was this all a publicity stunt anyway? Possibly, but that doesn't negate the facts of what happened.

[OneMoreRep]

I'm like 'fck racism' cause I grew up in akron projects then florida trailer parks, and I know it's all about $, not race...  Every time some country club upper middle class kid on getbig that has never been evicted tells me about "race wars", I want to spit on their nice carpet...

BUT

IN this case, if it's a pretty white girl with nice boobs and dimples, that brings in a homemade clock, her ass isn't in handcuffs.  Let's be honest lol.   Particularly AFTER they realize it's not a bomb, and that he showed teachers voluntarily... they arrested him AFTER they knew it was a clock.

this kid is a douche and a dumbass, but if he doesn't have "arab name, arab name, arab name) as Trump put it... he isn't arrested.

You're right.

It also stems from the fact that after the 1993 World Trace Center bombing, we had a full 22 years of hypersensitization to everything Arab and terrorist related. It's our knee-jerk reaction to presume that anyone wearing a turban might be some form of sinister being that is capable of blowing up shit while having nothing more on hand than a few wires and a wooden box.

It will take a while for that school of thought to fade away.

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[TuHolmes]

this kid is a douche and a dumbass, but if he doesn't have "arab name, arab name, arab name) as Trump put it... he isn't arrested.

This right here.

If his name was Robert Smith, the kid is sent home with his clock and told to keep it moving.

[Las Vegas]

Exactly..

Why not build a clock that looks like this:



No. Instead, the kid builds a clock that looks remarkably like your average briefcase bomb:



Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:



We sometimes make water guns that look very realistic. It's the kind of thing that if you point the realistic-looking water gun at a law enforcement agent, it can cost you your life.

If your child goes out to play with his friends, you wouldn't send him out with this:



Instead, you would send him out with this:



I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?

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Great points.  Hadn't thought about the possibility of it being a publicity stunt, but I bet you are right.  If the kid and his family are so smart, please don't tell me they wouldn't have seen beforehand what should happen.

[OneMoreRep]

This right here.

If his name was Robert Smith, the kid is sent home with his clock and told to keep it moving.

Right.

But as an Arab parent, knowing damn well what this society associates Arabs as a whole with, why would you send your kid to school with something that resembles a miniature, briefcase bomb (amidst all the school shootings over the last decade)?

Because ingenuity aside, that shit looks like an ugly fucking clock that I doubt anyone would ever use.

Also, the beauty of clocks is that they are typically visible to anyone in passing. You actually have to open this little case in order to read the time. How is that convenient? I see it as fucking creepy as shit.

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[SquidVicious]

But Texas?

I would have thought Texas would be the absolute last state any minority would think to go.

Haha. Just google Irving + Muslims or Frisco + Indians. In many new construction developments you'd be hard pressed to find a single white family.

[Las Vegas]

I can't imagine that ANY kid bringing in a contraption like that wouldn't have went through the same thing.

[Las Vegas]

Not the media part, though, of course.

[muscularny]

I can't imagine that ANY kid bringing in a contraption like that wouldn't have went through the same thing.

One thing is certain, his invite to the white house and to google was only because he is muslim. If he was some non muslim kid this would not make the news and the secret service might even ban him from coming 200 miles from the white house just in case.

When will we talk for real in this country?

[che]

He got arrested for wearing a homemade wristwatch , he's white .

[240 is Back]

For a dumb kid with limited $, a pencil box could be a logical choice for the case.  

If the clock actually worked, I'd be showing it off too, that's something impressive to be honest.  I don't know many adults that can build a clock, and the pencil case is handy with all those wires.  

Palin still thinks it's a real bomb.  Scary she was almost vice president.  

[Tapeworm]

Exactly..

Why not build a clock that looks like this:



No. Instead, the kid builds a clock that looks remarkably like your average briefcase bomb:



Resemblance is uncanny. One is simply missing the C4:



We sometimes make water guns that look very realistic. It's the kind of thing that if you point the realistic-looking water gun at a law enforcement agent, it can cost you your life.

If your child goes out to play with his friends, you wouldn't send him out with this:



Instead, you would send him out with this:



I call this a very well crafted publicity stunt to get this kid some national recognition. He did go from class to class showing every single teacher his cute little briefcase clock. Why not simply show it to your best friends and maybe your favorite teacher. Why continue to lug that shit around?

"1"

Uh oh.  Idk the particulars of the case, especially since I get all my news from Getbig, but as far as I can see he put together all the components that comprise an electronic, non-mechanical clock.  Put the guts of your bedside clock in a latch case and it's exactly that.  

Which come to think of it looks a lot like what he did.  A minute ago I was impressed thinking I couldn't build one.  Now I'm asking if he even did any soldering.  I mean, that is not a homemade circuit board at all and that's where it's all at.  That's the whole logic circuit.  Did this kid just move a clock radio into a box and plug in a $5 ebay digi-display?  But I digress.

Whether the publicity is by design... I haven't got the info.  I doubt a 14 yo kid would have the nous.  And if someone put him up to it then he'll grow to resent them for it anyway.

[TuHolmes]

Right.

But as an Arab parent, knowing damn well what this society associates Arabs as a whole with, why would you send your kid to school with something that resembles a miniature, briefcase bomb (amidst all the school shootings over the last decade)?

Because ingenuity aside, that shit looks like an ugly fucking clock that I doubt anyone would ever use.

Also, the beauty of clocks is that they are typically visible to anyone in passing. You actually have to open this little case in order to read the time. How is that convenient? I see it as fucking creepy as shit.

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According to reports, the kid really keeps it by his bed most of the time, just sitting open like that.

If you believe the kid and the father, which most people seem to not.

I have not seen anything to specifically say they are being dishonest in this instance.

[Las Vegas]

One thing is certain, his invite to the white house and to google was only because he is muslim. If he was some non muslim kid this would not make the news and the secret service might even ban him from coming 200 miles from the white house just in case.

Undeniable.  Everyone needs to carefully think about this, while keeping in mind that ANY kid showing up with a device that looks like a bomb would have people freaking out.  All of it is undeniable.

When will we talk for real in this country?

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I don't know how it could even begin.  But I am fully convinced the role of "our" media is to keep that real talk from being broadcast.

[TuHolmes]

One thing is certain, his invite to the white house and to google was only because he is muslim. If he was some non muslim kid this would not make the news and the secret service might even ban him from coming 200 miles from the white house just in case.

When will we talk for real in this country?

That's quite true and ridiculous as well. No reason why the white house should care about the kid once he is not charged. Many people are freed from invalid arrests and still have their lives destroyed due to the process never caring about the aftermath, only the charge.

This kid is an exception and he should be the rule.

Although, I hight doubt anyone would ban a non muslim from the whitehouse for making a clock.

They are not mutually inclusive.

[Las Vegas]

According to reports, the kid really keeps it by his bed most of the time, just sitting open like that.

If you believe the kid and the father, which most people seem to not.

I have not seen anything to specifically say they are being dishonest in this instance.

Anyone who nods along with the media believes it.

[TuHolmes]

Anyone who nods along with the media believes it.

In general I have a distrust of anyone who doesn't eat bacon, but it's not a crime after all.

Speaking of, that Trader Joe's uncured black forest bacon is the bomb.

[Las Vegas]

In general I have a distrust of anyone who doesn't eat bacon, but it's not a crime after all.

Speaking of, that Trader Joe's uncured black forest bacon is the bomb.

I believe lots of suckers are buying into the "poor Mislim child being abused in America" crock, and they don't realize how ridiculous the story is.  That's what I think.

[TuHolmes]

I believe lots of suckers are buying into the "poor Mislim child being abused in America" crock, and they don't realize how ridiculous the story is.  That's what I think.

My problem is not the kid being Muslim, I don't care if he's white / black / brown / pink.

What I do care about is everyone's civil liberties. If this kid was questioned without his parents, that's messed up, I don't care what color they are.

If they knew it wasn't a bomb, then stop being douchebags and move on. Tax dollars wasted.

Also, as the kid isn't charged, it's over, time to move on.

Be vigilant, but move past it.

[Tapeworm]

Classic egghead geek going through life blissfully unaware.  Arrested for a school science project.  [Legendary.]  As if he didn't have a hard enough time in school being named Ahmed Muhammed in Texas over the last decade.  

He doesn't want to blow you up.  He's jerking off thinking about some cheerleader girl.  

Fucking hell, gentlemen.  Fear itself, you know?

[Las Vegas]

My problem is not the kid being Muslim, I don't care if he's white / black / brown / pink.

Yes, exactly.  That's the whole point, right there  His actions are what matter.  He practically asked for this to happen and got it.

What I do care about is everyone's civil liberties. If this kid was questioned without his parents, that's messed up, I don't care what color they are.

If they knew it wasn't a bomb, then stop being douchebags and move on. Tax dollars wasted.

Also, as the kid isn't charged, it's over, time to move on.

Be vigilant, but move past it.

Yes, and to be perfectly clear.. anyone out in public having a device that looks like a bomb is going to be shaken down, hard.

[TuHolmes]

Fucking hell, gentlemen.  Fear itself, you know?

I agree... nothing to fear.

That said, I do understand that as others have stated, while HE may be blissfully unaware, maybe his dad has some motive.

Yes, exactly.  That's the whole point, right there  His actions are what matter.  He practically asked for this to happen and got it.

Yes, and to be perfectly clear.. anyone out in public having a device that looks like a bomb is going to be shaken down, hard.

Possibly, but would a white kid really be arrested?

I mean, I guess now he as to be arrested right?