I am sorry to report that the Internet has done the research and proved it was a storebought clock, and even found the exact model. It's a radio shack micronta branded clock. I would look up the exact model if I wasn't so lazy. He did not replace anything. It's a clock on a preprinted board, still attached to all its parts. One of he boards has places for the buttons and sliders for am/pm and all that. It's factory stuff. He didn't solder anything, and he damn sure doesn't have a acid baths and silicon and all the crap it takes to manufacture printed circuit boards. Like almost all those clocks, it has battery backup. When the power is out the display doesn't run but the alarm will, and time is still being measured.
At any rate, I think the fact that it is a store bought clock (and this is indisputable) means it is far more likely he was making a fake bomb. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Hoaxes are cool. I know a guy who called a bomb threat into my school and he is a hero. But the kid hasn't built a clock, Obama is incorrect. Obama weighed in because of the narrative he wants to further, that we are a ridiculous islamaphobic society that deserves to be chastised for it. If we are islamaphobic, this is not an example of it.
No one has suggested this. Why would dismantling a radio to reveal its parts be a problem? It's kid stuff. Its not a bomb. A 14-year old is guilty of exaggeration. What a fucking shock. This ain't a problem. The usual bullies are just having great fun bashing a little turd.
I am not agreeing with anyone bashing the kid. I am saying the kid is self aware enough to know he is a Muslim kid and Muslims have a unique status in this country. They can freak people out a little easier with bombs. So he did. Good for him. 2 facts remain: 1. Islam is a stupid religion 2. Kids getting in trouble for making fake bombs doesn't really merit presidential comment. It's like when that Christian lunatic wanted to burn a Koran and Obama asked him not to. Fuck off, Obama, burning a book is free speech. Nothing is more important than free speech. Or when that "innocent of Muslims" movie happened right before Benghazi. Obama said it was disgusting or disrespectful or whatever, right before he defended our right to make it. thayd insane. It's like calling Charlie hebdo disgusting. Don't comment on the content, jerkass. Just defend it.
Too many logical problems. One--so does he leave it somewhere to be found and cause a bomb scare? Does he make a threat with it? No. He proudly shows it to his science teacher, who recognized it for what it was and told him not to show it to anybody because it had an unshielded transformer that was dangerous. He should have confiscated it, but it clearly wasn't a bomb. Why make a hoax bomb and then show it to the guy most capable of knowing exactly what is was and tell him exactly what it was? Logical problem 2. If it was a hoax bomb then why no explosives or fake explosives? If it is a pathetic excuse for a clock, it is a worse excuse for a bomb. It's a friggin' clock.
