Murdered white cops don’t matter, duh! Did you not get the memo?
This is why the JBTs at the airport molest little kids in diapers or old white women in diapers. You cannot profile . . . it’s RACIST!
You’re right, most kids don’t have the judgement of adults, although my 4 year old daughter knows that she can’t run around naked at school even though we’ve never told her she can’t.
The kids dad at least should’ve had better judgement.
I think it’s idiotic that people wouldn’t think it’s dangerous. Just like how kids can’t bring fake guns to school. Teachers shouldn’t be put in the position to have to differentiate between what is dangerous & what is not.
What if he had Play Doh holding the wires together? What if this happened on a plane that you & your family was on? (I can pretty much guarantee this would’ve grounded a plane.)
I agree that Poindexter shouldn’t have been arrested but only AFTER it was determined to not be a legit bomb & he was just playing show & tell. The first teacher should’ve told the kid to yank the battery, and keep it in his locker. Then he should’ve called the principal to give him/her a “heads up” in case any of the faculty happens upon it.
This situation is pretty easy to Monday morning quarterback. It something doesn’t go bang, what’s the problem? If it did go bang, why didn’t somebody do something to stop it?
No one’s safety should ever be compromised for the sake of political correctness.
I guess it’s a matter of perspective, but only an idiot would think a clock is dangerous.
I dabble in the Maker community though, and have done a few simple Arduino projects involving breadboard and solder.
This is the project, BTW:
(real pee your pants stuff going on in there… reminds me of the time I took the back off the TV remote… LOL)
It’s similar to thinking an M4 magazine is a spree killing waiting-to-happen since “it has all the working components of a gun, minus the gun… and the ammunition.”
But then I suppose that’s an imperfect analogy, since an M4 magazine is a component of a weapon, and a clock is a tool used to tell time.
Well, I’ve never seen anything you’ve posted that I’ve agreed with sooooo…
I don’t even understand you. 
To a layperson it may have looked like an explosive device and it would be worth a call to the police to have it checked out. You cannot expect every rank and file LEO to have the ability to readily identify an explosive device, so holding Ahmed for a short period of time would not be unexpected.
I agree. Ill be the first to throw the “racist” flag. We made clocks, timers and breadboard projects in high school, SSD’s IC chips you name it. Not once were the cops called on us… And im not that many shades off from being dark like that kid. Paranoid pricks.
I’m more thinking that the teachers knew that it was a fake, but were following the zero tolerance policy that may schools have towards weapons - real or fake. For example, some schools go to such extreme lengths to suspend students for making finger-gun gestures or making their cookie in the shape of the gun. I might see the school’s point if the clock in question was strapped to road flares or a block of grey play dough.
In other words, I’m withholding judgement until I have the school’s version and more facts.
These are the very things we need to inspire our kids to do, instead of smoking dope and shooting up herion. I applaud this kid. I was that kid, always tinkering with electronics, taking apart toys. Went to college for it and now make a decent living on it…
Seen worse happen to kids for pointing chicken fingers at other kids.
I put a stink bomb in a kids desk one time in 6th grade as a prank. yeah i got suspended for a day, big woof. What I didnt like is that the teacher told everyone I would griw up to be a terrorist and in jail… I think that beatch works at a 7-11 now…
Who cares?
What I mean is, similar to the Henry Louis Gates incident, the President responded off the cuff and said the officers acted stupidly. He then ended up having a beer with the officer.
I’d invite this teacher and officer over for a beer and ask them straight up, “Are you stupid?”
I would serve them all tiny containers of chocolate milk.
Similarly, I’m sure Ahmed has a brighter future than both the teacher and the cop.
Exactly. That was my point to you. I don’t care what you say… ever. I find that it’s all nonsense.
I don’t think anyone here, or at the school, is saying otherwise. The issue here is how the situation presented itself. Was there a science fair going on at school? No. Perhaps if there was, no one would’ve batted an eyelash. It went off in a kid’s backpack. A Muslim kid’s backpack. Sad? Certainly. Unfair? Perhaps, but you can thank the terrorists for the climate we currently live in. It doesn’t take much to connect the dots here. Easy for Internet tough guys to quickly cypher a pile of wires as harmless, after the fact. (I, too, have a degree in a technical field, in which I make a living.) What about an elementary school teacher when it’s right there in front them? They shouldn’t be made to make those decisions, hence the zero tolerance.
When I was a kid, there wasn’t an issue bringing toy guns to school. Now you can’t even shape a piece of toast into one. Worse yet, if you do and get suspended, there’s no invite to the WH.
Sad, but it’s the world we live in today.
Another perspective:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/16/race-grifters-unite-14-year-old-ahmed-mohamed-arrested-over-suitcase-clock/
I think more kids should be encouraged to bring aluminum brief cases to school. As long as they’re wearing NASA T shirts they will be fine.
Ahmed Mohamed - Trendsetter
Agreed!
Well said.
Clearly what is needed are more regulations on clocks.
It’s only a matter of time before ghost assault clocks with shoulder things that go up are found in every school in the country and the streets flow with rivers of blood.
There is no need for clocks that count down, nor for clocks that are capable of exceeding 12 hours. Clocks should only be available to reasonable, rational adults, and should only ever be used to tell time.
If this kid was named Abner, I’m pretty sure that everybody would be on the same side in this issue. But because the kid is named Ahmed he apparently deserves everything he gets.
Yeah. And maybe if you look at BB guns at Wal-Mart you deserve to get shot.
We probably won’t know until another kid does something this bone headed. The kid is 14. He seemed to articulate very well the consequences of his actions and treatment after the fact, yet he didn’t think his shiny briefcase would raise any eyebrows?
Obama decided to get involved because the kid is Muslim and/or brown. Otherwise we would hear crickets. Instead of telling him he acted stupidly he gives the kid a Twitter shout out. You couldn’t make this circus clown s**t up.
My boy, Ahmed! Holla! LOL
Yeah…that was funny.
As for Mohammed, it sucks that Muslims globally have been so barbaric that his religion and name are virtually synonymous with terrorism. That isn’t Mohammeds fault, but it really isn’t the teachers fault either. Teachers crack down on kids for pop tarts, chicken fingers, peanut butter sandwiches and now…apparently…clocks. Add it to the list and let no child ever build a clock again or suffer the consequences. Another victim of the nanny state of public education.
At the same time I’m not ready to start or support a MLM movement. Hopefully Mohammed is intelligent and enlightened enough to realize “God that was bullshit” and move on with his life and avoid becoming the Islamic Kim Davis. The fact that he was invited to the White House is insulting.
We don’t need another “protected class” of US citizens, and if we are going to create one, it should be “victims of Islam” or don’t do it at all.
Yep.
Lots of MMQB in this thread. I bet no one looked twice at two Chechen dudes with backpacks & pressure cookers. What’s the big deal, right? Only backpacks & kitchen wares… until it blows shit up.
When it’s an innocent device, it’s only a clock… it’s racism… it’s profiling… What’s wrong with everyone? Paranoid much?
Until one blows up and kills 30 kids. Then everyone asks who let this kid in school with a “homemade” clock. “Seriously, a “homemade” clock?! Nobody raised a red flag at that?”