14 year old boy makes a clock - Is arrested by Police

Maher is spot on in the regard, the kid did not invent anything. He took a digital clock apart and put in in a suitcase.

Here is an expert on homemade clocks and says its laughable. This is not an invention

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he didn't invent it... so what? he's a ****ing kid, lol. and it still doesn't look like it could be a bomb to anyone with the slightest amount of engineering knowledge. there is no reason to get the police involved... the teacher confiscating the item would have sufficed.

All the smart people are saying he's a fraud.

i'm saying i don't care if he's a fraud. that doesn't mean he needs to be arrested.

Blame the police.

Originally posted by red g jacks
he didn't invent it... so what? he's a ****ing kid, lol. and it still doesn't look like it could be a bomb to anyone with the slightest amount of engineering knowledge. there is no reason to get the police involved... the teacher confiscating the item would have sufficed.

What did he lie about exactly? I'm a little behind the news on this story?

Originally posted by Newjak
What did he lie about exactly? I'm a little behind the news on this story?

Apparently he lied about not being an evil terrorist mastermind hellbent on the destruction of America.

Originally posted by long pig
Looks like a bomb. Teachers aren't engineers. They fact he lied about the clock shows his character.
He's a liar and a terrorist.

I'm guessing you never did anything stupid when you were fourteen?

"terrorist"!?!? WOW, that escalated quickly! how did we conclude that he's a terrorist? obviously i haven't been following this issue very closely, either.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
BOOOOOOOOOOOM

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Bill Mayer destroys this fake inventor/kid.

Welcome to last week when it was posted that the kid didn't actually invent anything but just took apart and repackaged a digital clock.

heh, that kid needing to learn what "invented" means.

ok, so a possible plagiarist in the making. still not remotely convinced on the terrorism point though. anyone?

This is just classic misdirection. As it's been with all other cases of minority youths mistreated by people in authority, the character of the victim is irrelevant to whether or not the authorities acted unjustly. It's not who they are, it's what they were doing when the law came down on them. That's just how our justice system works. Or how it should work anyway.

Ahmed Mohamed could be a pathological liar and attention whore--there still weren't sufficient grounds to have him arrested, and if the school/police really thought he had a bomb then they handled the situation horribly and at the very least should undergo further training in how to deal with actual bomb threats.

Originally posted by long pig
Looks like a bomb. Teachers aren't engineers. They fact he lied about the clock shows his character.
He's a liar

"terrorist". that's the part i need some clarification on, if you please.

I never said he was a terrorist.

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial

Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
I never said he was a terrorist.

no, as far as i can see, you did not. i was addressing longpig's assertion and it seemed you were responding to my query. if not, my bad.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
This is just classic misdirection. As it's been with all other cases of minority youths mistreated by people in authority, the character of the victim is irrelevant to whether or not the authorities acted unjustly. It's not who they are, it's what they were doing when the law came down on them. That's just how our justice system works. Or how it should work anyway.

Ahmed Mohamed could be a pathological liar and attention whore--there still weren't sufficient grounds to have him arrested, and if the school/police really thought he had a bomb then they handled the situation horribly and at the very least should undergo further training in how to deal with actual bomb threats.

Blame the police, they arrested him, the teacher was looking out for the saftey of her students and school.

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Originally posted by Bashar Teg
"terrorist". that's the part i need some clarification on, if you please.

Consider yourself clarified.