I was expecting a like an old school clock with hands and bells on the top, this shit looked like a detonator clock.
Come up for air now and again and oh yeah, wipe your chin. Look, in case you don't realize it you only need a very small power cell, which this thing had, and wires which this thing had, and a way of completing the circuit. There is no standard "this is what a bomb looks like" book. It would have been VERY easy to line the inside of this case with some sort of explosive. If he was smart enough to figure out how to build the rest of this "clock" he is smart enough to figure out how to make it go boom. It really isn't all that difficult at all. So you continue to fluff and little jihad johnny lives to make a better bomb another day.
This could all be helped by a simple apology and recognition that there was an over reaction. Instead, like everything else, it gets turned into the days political story and everyone is expected to choose sides. I've said that the parents bear some responsibility for not recognizing how it could be misinterpreted in the world we live in today also. I think they, along with the school and police, could quell all of this by simply acknowledging that no one had their thinking cap on that day.
Wow, the kid gets offered a full ride at the University of North Texas. This is the greatest country of over reactors in the world.
No one "allowed" him. He was a kid! Kids do things without thinking them through. You are going to find this out. Read what I said. The teachers did their job to report a suspected threat. They owe nobody an apology. Whoever made the decision to arrest and handcuff the kid and take him downtown before they even checked out the situation is the one that needs to apologize. Most likely a cop. I mean to tell you to wise up. Did you ever do something that was ill-considered when you were a kid? Have you ever witnessed it? I sure the hell did and have. The guy did not make a fake bomb. He did not try to frighten anybody. Nobody was hurt except the kid's dignity. He made a electronic clock that he was proud of and didn't consider the perception it might have. He was foolish, but that is not a crime. Based on what? The kid has never been in trouble. I don't think it had anything to do with racism. It had to do with adolescent thoughtlessness and police overreaction. Some cop did not follow procedure here.
it is massive. not to the level of the kid shot dead over a toy gun, but yes, it was a massive over reaction. why are you trying to minimize it?
and you would be correct because while it was a very poorly disguised one, it looked just as much like a bomb as it did a clock. That is the thing that WH Fluff squad is missing, they make them to look JUST like a CLOCK!!!! I guess they were expecting the old Wyle E Coyote 10 sticks of dynamite wrapped in electrical tape with the coily wire coming out the top. Get real people.
