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

Originally posted by Bardock42
I'm not sure about none at all. But 14 million seems outrageous. Then again outrageous amounts in lawsuits is kind of one of America's most endearing traits....

if they directly lost any money due to this incident, let them be compensated for that. i don't want to hear about emotional trauma or any of that crap either, unless the kid needs a shrink or something. in which case let the school pay for the shrink.

i'm tired of giving people paychecks for victim-hood. we're only creating the incentive for more of these shenanigans in the future.

Originally posted by red g jacks
these kinds of lawsuits are a part of what is wrong with america

if they directly lost any money due to this incident, let them be compensated for that. i don't want to hear about emotional trauma or any of that crap either, unless the kid needs a shrink or something. in which case let the school pay for the shrink.

i'm tired of giving people paychecks for victim-hood. we're only creating the incentive for more of these shenanigans in the future.

Note that it's pretty rare that these big settlements get granted, it's more a "ask for a lot to show you're serious, then actually get much less."

And a lot of it is to prevent, well, people from victimizing. If there's no serious penalty for wrongdoing, it keeps happening.

they shouldn't get any sort of payoff as far as i am concerned. i think suing for money should be a way to recoup a loss that you suffer... not a way to gain money that you didn't have in the first place.

if there was some sort of wrongdoing then the wrongdoer should be punished... the victim doesn't need to get a paycheck for that deterrence to work. that only creates the incentive for people to try to create situations in which they are victimized... which arguably is what happened here.

Originally posted by Q99
And a lot of it is to prevent, well, people from victimizing. If there's no serious penalty for wrongdoing, it keeps happening.

So then here is the thing with this, why can't we penalize the school without rewarding the "victim"? Why not put the money towards some type of training for the teachers, etc. to prevent this? At least the money is put back into the school. Especially when there is a chance the kid knew exactly what he was doing.

I'd also still ask where we pull the money from to give to these people. Slash the salaries of the teachers? You'd have to slash the salary of more then just those involved to get any decent cash. Pull funding from other educational programs? So now we're in the territory of innocent students and teachers potentially suffering over this. All so we can penalize them in a way that rewards the victim.

I would rather, if the school is forced to pay, they donate all that money to a charity then give it to this kid and his family. So there we can penalize them without giving people shit they don't deserve and some actual good might come of it. But lets be honest, this isn't about right and wrong. This isn't about the kid being so emotionally traumatized he needs 15 million to ease his pain. This isn't about teaching the school or the cops a lesson. It's about greed.

If we have to pull funds from the school and the police in order to pay these people is it really worth it? When do the needs of the many begin to outweigh the needs of this one family? Someone even mentioned raising taxes to cover the cost. Have we all gone utterly insane?

So hmmm:

YouTube video

Gee who would of thought?

Just to think though this kid got praised..even friggin Obama said "cool clock" when look at it..it looks like a damn bomb. He was told not to bring it to any classroom other than his engineering classroom and he disobeyed. In one of his early interviews the kid himself admitted it looked suspicious.

I'm going to assume Stephen Amell was talked about earlier in this thread, because it's way too long to search through. (And if my very spotty memory forget's bringing it up myself earlier, bear with me. 🙂 )

Attacking the man as a bigot/racist for what, at worst, amounts to a well meaning tweet said in ignorance of modern day social justice philosophy (E.g. a blanket statement against blacks will have different reprecussions compared to a blanket statement against white guys in texas, and therefore one should be tolerated if it detracts from focusing on the other) is baffling to me. This comes off like a complete overreaction to what Amell said, however flawed his argument may have been.

Is outrage the only acceptable response to something even remotely, and likely unintentionally offensive?

I legitimately have no idea what you mean. Isn't that the dude from Arrow? Did he do something?

Originally posted by Surtur
I legitimately have no idea what you mean. Isn't that the dude from Arrow? Did he do something?

Yeah, that's him.

As for what he did:

Stereotyping Texas isn’t any better than stereotyping Ahmed. Just so we’re clear.

— Stephen Amell (@amellywood) September 16, 2015

That's it. And it lead to a lot of this:

http://www.themarysue.com/why-stephen-amell-why/

http://mobi.perezhilton.com/2015-09-17-arrow-stephen-amell-twitter-ahmed-mohamed-apology

http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/09/17/stephen-amell-ahmed-mohamed-twitter-stereotyping-texas-clock-bomb/

Okay that shit is nonsense and it would of been nonsense even before we found out how much of a hoax this was and how it did indeed look like some kind of bomb and how he purposely disobeyed teachers, etc.

Originally posted by cdtm
http://www.themarysue.com/why-stephen-amell-why/

I hate to say it but..she's probably some feminist SJW.

Wait no I don't hate to say it.

Lol looking at other articles by this person is like finding some long lost treasure.

http://www.themarysue.com/amy-schumer-wrecks-heckler/

Here is the title to the article:

"Amy Schumer Invites Sexist Heckler on Stage, Righteously Shaming Him in Front of Crowd"

What? "Righteously shaming" ? lol. It sounds so silly to even say that, and then when you look at what Amy actually did..all she did was say "hey everyone look at this guy".

What the hell ever happened to impartial journalism anyway

I'm not even joking now: I legitimately think I could make some decent money by being the kind of "journalist" these people are.

Think about it though, it is super easy to get people riled up over some stupid shit. Maybe I've been looking at this SJW thing the wrong way.

Originally posted by Scribble
What the hell ever happened to impartial journalism anyway

I'm pretty sure impartial journalism declined sharply way before the Internet became popular, to be fair. The Internet just gives anyone and everyone a chance to spew their shit out all over the place.

Originally posted by Surtur
I'm not even joking now: I legitimately think I could make some decent money by being the kind of "journalist" these people are.

Yep, and her and that Gamer Gate chick went to like..the UN or something, to whine about being made fun of online.

Holy shit wait how did we as a society EVER allow that to happen? No wonder people hate us. We produce people like that. These are, in effect, horrors of our own creation.

Yeah SadSackfullashitcrack is a *****, but I do like to watch youtube vids by the by the people that hate her face.

Those are fun.