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"He’s vowed never to take an invention to school again"

Everyone is on the edge because so much stuff happens around the world and there are news about bombings almost every day so I understand why teachers were worried first, but once it was made clear that it was just a clock they should have just apologized and let him go. Arresting him was ridiculous.

the world has become a strange place...

I thought the forums just cut off a word of this topic's title then I saw the article and facepalmed.

I was trying to fit most of the title, so I had to make it shorter :/

No, I meant I thought it cut off the obvious "clock bomb" and then I saw the article. Like he made a clock and got into trouble for it.

So I guess you can't make your own clock and take it to school...

I usually don't play the race card but I can't help but wonder if he was arrested because he is Muslim? I realize the world is on edge because of all the bombings and mass shootings but they should have been willing to listen to him, esp if he is a good student/ young man with no history of this kind of stuff.

^^^^^^^^ Exactly what I was thinking.

I know absolutely nothing about making bombs, but don't they need an incendiary device to detonate? Shouldn't the teachers and administration staff have seen that it didn't? School officials who scar students should be removed from the schools as quickly as this boy was. I'm with and thought the rest of the title got caught off at first, then read the article. It's horrifying when panic overtakes common sense. I'm glad to read the family is talking to a lawyer.

I've seen way more than my fair share of unfortunate things like this to know that yeah, if he wasn't muslim he wouldn't have been treated like this. if he was some random white kid with a white sounding name there would be teachers saying he was a genius kid with an innovative idea to make clocks easy and cheaper or something. The fact he is muslim and they thought it was a bomb when it was a clock is not an unfortunate coincidence. Like, this line puts that very clearly;

Erring to the side of caution is one thing, I get it, but they didn't accuse him of having a bomb (which would later be debunked, as it is a damn clock. ) They accused him of having a hoax bomb, which, means they charged him with the intent to cause alarm through this despite the fact that he both insisted it to be a clock and was proven to be one. Like hell. you don't accuse someone with an empty water bottle with a little bit of fluid in it still to be a bomb or a hoax bomb either, despite the fact people make them and pretty damn easily, hell, snopes confirms that one to be true.

just. eaugh.

He's a Muslim teenager, obviously he made a clock bomb. Please note that I'm being sarcastic. It's pretty sad that as a society we're so on edge about bombings by terrorist groups that something as inane as a kid bringing a clock that he invented ends up with the police being called on him.

I also agree that if he wasn't Muslim, chances are the teacher probably wouldn't of called the police on him.

- Except... he 'was' trying to cause alarm. Because it's a clock.

har har har har.