9th Grader Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

[Greg Bernhardt]

I love America, winning the hearts and minds of possible 'Hoax bombers' with electronic goodies.

Smart kid either way

 

[RooksAndBooks]

Oops, I forgot another thing adding to my criticism of Texas. Texas excludes atheists from being in office. Article 1, Section 4: "RELIGIOUS TESTS. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall anyone be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being." In other words, they believe in "freedom of religion" but not "freedom from religion." Last time I checked, "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

 

[russ_watters]

Oops, I forgot another thing adding to my criticism of Texas. Texas excludes atheists from being in office. Article 1, Section 4: "RELIGIOUS TESTS. No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall anyone be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being." In other words, they believe in "freedom of religion" but not "freedom from religion." Last time I checked, "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

That part of the Texas Constitution (and of 7 other states) was voided 55 years ago. So it is false to say that Texas excludes atheists from holding office.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-cant-hold-public-office-if-youre-an-atheist/

 

[BiGyElLoWhAt]

Hey! @Drakkith is from Texas! And I'm pretty sure @Evo lived there for a while...



Digging deeper into the story, it seems there is more to it than just brains, bigotry, and innocence:

"...packed up the wirey mess in a pencil case to show his engineering teacher..."​

Reminds me a bit of a line from "Men in Black":

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This kid has a "beeping" "pencil case" that looks way more like a suitcase.
He's an engineering child, and should not have any interest in colored pencils.
I would have been suspicious too.

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Being suspicious is one thing. Arresting him, and threatening to charge him with making a hoax bomb, which could potentially ruin his future, or at least make it very difficult, is another thing completely. I'm not upset that they investigated. I'm upset at the consequences. It was quite clearly not a bomb, at least at the end of the day, and it was quite clear that he never portrayed it to be a bomb. What did he do wrong? Nothing. Why is he being punished? That's the question I would like an answer to.

 

[BiGyElLoWhAt]

The Irving Tx Police Department does not have a bomb squad. There was nobody qualified to make that determination.

They didn't seem too worried. From what I understand, they kept the "bomb" in the interrogation room with them, and also in the squad car as they transported him. Doesn't sound like they thought it was a bomb, at all, regardless of whether they are "qualified" or not.

'He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.'

Q: How much time elapsed between the beeping and when he showed the English teacher the clock?


'“She was like, it looks like a bomb,” he said.

“I told her, ‘It doesn’t look like a bomb to me.’”

The teacher kept the clock. When the principal and a police officer pulled Ahmed out of sixth period, he suspected he wouldn’t get it back.'

Q: Where did the teacher keep the suspected bomb? How quickly did the teacher inform the police of the suspected bomb? Was the school immediately evacuated?

^This get's to my point.

 

[Dale]

Arresting him, and threatening to charge him with making a hoax bomb, which could potentially ruin his future, or at least make it very difficult, is another thing completely. I'm not upset that they investigated. I'm upset at the consequences.

Getting arrested isn't going to ruin anyone's future. It is not a severe consequence.

 

[BiGyElLoWhAt]

No, but having "making a hoax bomb" or whatever the actual charge would be would make it hard for him to get a job that employs background checks. I'm assuming that it's been dropped by now, because there's no evidence to support it, but the fact that they tried to pursue that when it was quite clearly illegitimate. ..

 

[Dale]

You are confusing being arrested with being convicted.

 

[BiGyElLoWhAt]

Yes, I suppose I am. Either way, it doesn't condone the douchebaggery. The cops were out of line, end of story.

 

[Czcibor]

This boy is going to continue his education in Qatar:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34587285

Well... Good for him, image disaster for others...

 

[Rick21383]

http://irvingblog.dallasnews.com/2015/11/letter-demands-5-million-and-an-apology-for-ahmeds-treatment-over-clock.html/

Oh what a smart kid!

Looks like another lib fraud is unraveling. Hopefully this goes to trial so these idiots are forced to appear in court and the real story comes out.Interrogatory #1: "Please list all materials used to create clock"

Depo: " Ok Ahmed, here's everything you need in front of you. Will you explain how you created it in specific detail?"

Ahmed: "..."

 

[mheslep]

Thirty percent of $15 million - a nice pay day for shake down lawyers.

 

[OmCheeto]

Thirty percent of $15 million - a nice pay day for shake down lawyers.

I called it first!

Cha-Ching!

Not sure if anyone noticed last month that the entire family was planning to move to Qatar:

‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar [Washington Post]
Oct 20, 2015​

But I did, and googled something like: emigrating to Qatar
and found pretty much nothing.

So just now, I googled: moving to Qatar
and found a really sour looking article:

Moving guide: 10 things to know before relocating to Qatar [telegraph.co.uk]
Oct 15, 2015
...
My first week in Qatar is a permanent fixture in my memory, ineffectually filed under “try to forget”
...

And it only gets worse from there.

I would not move to Qatar, for a billion dollars.
But hell ya! Sue them Texans. Theys gots lotsa oil money.

 

[HossamCFD]

It seems like everything that happened to that kid had been heavily politicised. Now that he moved to Qatar, sadly even his future has become a political statement.

 

[WWGD]

It seems like everything that happened to that kid had been heavily politicised. Now that he moved to Qatar, sadly even his future has become a political statement.

Yes, his future is not what it used to be.