Teen creates clock, shows teacher who think it's a bomb, teen gets arrested

[JSt0rm]

/giantfacepalm

Seriously? You and all of the other Democrat faithful around here do nothing BUT post "LOL Republican" threads over and over and over.

Can you really NOT see that?

I truly believe that's all you see

 

[BoberFett]

I truly believe that's all you see

 

[JD50]

I can't believe some of you care so much about this. You guys are writing novels about a kid with a clock.

 

[JSt0rm]

I can't believe some of you care so much about this. You guys are writing novels about a kid with a clock.

Its amazing. The tru™ social justice conservative in action needs no sleep.

 

[Victorian Gray]

2 weeks of organized banging on the kid and his family with innuendo, character assassination, misrepresentation and outright fabrication. Then they claim that they all came up with the same arguments, made in them in the same manner and using the same links but each claiming that they 'built that argument'.

It's awe inspiring.

And the kid will probably still end up at the White House. :biggrin:

 

[JSt0rm]

2 weeks of organized banging on the kid and his family with innuendo, character assassination, misrepresentation and outright fabrication. Then they claim that they all came up with the same arguments, made in them in the same manner and using the same links but each claiming that they 'built that argument'.

It's awe inspiring.

And the kid will probably still end up at the White House. :biggrin:

He has to muslim terrorist fist bump the president.

 

[LegendKiller]

2 weeks of organized banging on the kid and his family with innuendo, character assassination, misrepresentation and outright fabrication. Then they claim that they all came up with the same arguments, made in them in the same manner and using the same links but each claiming that they 'built that argument'.

It's awe inspiring.

And the kid will probably still end up at the White House.

Yeah, who cares about the administrators, teachers, principals, and cops that have been endlessly called racist without you guys knowing the truth.

They are accused so highly of racism the President invited the kid over their racism.

You cant get any higher than that.


And you guys applaud it.

 

[Ichinisan]

just because the right wing echo chamber decided to character assassinate a 14 year old hasn't lead to some higher truth in this.

Oh it has. There is a "higher truth" here, and some have come to realize it. The longer it takes for you to realize it, the more embarrassment you will suffer.

 

[JSt0rm]

im going to suffer embarrassment? Let me bring you up to speed. If the 4 crazy people fomenting this thread think I should be embarrassed about something then I think Im doing ok

 

[Ichinisan]

2 weeks of organized banging on the kid and his family with innuendo, character assassination, misrepresentation and outright fabrication. Then they claim that they all came up with the same arguments, made in them in the same manner and using the same links but each claiming that they 'built that argument'.

It's awe inspiring.

And the kid will probably still end up at the White House. :biggrin:

I literally saw everything I needed in the very first video by that local TV station (the bedroom interview) and the picture released soon after.

You're full of shit.

Here's how it went down:

Came across a Slashdot post about this in my Facebook feed.

Clicked the source link and ended up on that local TV station's page.

Started to watch the bedroom interview video and only got a little way into the video before I concluded that the news reporters were fooled and the kid didn't build anything. Without even getting 1/3rd of the way through, I turned stopped the video because it was making me cringe to see the news reporters be so stupid as to believe these boards and wires were "inventions."

Immediately thought of the Balloon Boy hoax. Considered the possibility that it was a deliberate hoax to gain traction on social media (also like KFC girl and Wendy's chili finger), but didn't see anything else to confirm malicious intent.

I saw a few other blogs (Gizmodo, Wired, etc) mention it in my Facebook feed, but I didn't click them.

I saw Red Squirrel's "TIL" thread in ATOT and realized people there were getting fooled, so I came right in and said what was completely obvious to me. The OP linked the same TV station's article and video.

I finished the watching the whole video and it further reinforced my initial impression.

I posted a second time in that thread, admonishing everyone for not being a little bit more cynical about such things.

Gothamhunter posted a picture that he thought was the clock (it clearly wasn't). Some people got the wrong impression based on that picture.

Then the real picture was posted in the thread.

Seeing the wire on the latch, combined with the kid's comments in the bedroom interview video, revealed some confusing things about the kid's awareness and intentions.

The bandwagon trainwreck continued off-the-God-damn-rails. I was attacked by the likes of you for suggesting the kid was anything less than a bonafide genius. I was told I couldn't do that sort of thing when I was 14 or even now (from people who inexplicably still believed the kid had actually done something significant). Bullshit. Any 7-year-old could do that, and a 14-year-old should know better than to build something so dangerous you could get electrocuted by it. he should have been ashamed of it, not "proud."

I had absolutely no reason to search the Internet or read blogs for information. I already had *all* the information I needed from the original video and the picture that was released...but I admit I did a quick Google search to verify if the picture was genuine.

I digested information from both threads and was repeatedly accused by you of reposting talking points by right-wing blogs I do not read.

Believe me or don't, but stop with the bullshit accusations. It's not true.

 

[Ichinisan]

im going to suffer embarrassment? Let me bring you up to speed. If the 4 crazy people fomenting this thread think I should be embarrassed about something then I think Im doing ok

This is going to be sooo good.

 

[Victorian Gray]

Yeah, who cares about the administrators, teachers, principals, and cops that have been endlessly called racist without you guys knowing the truth.

They are accused so highly of racism the President invited the kid over their racism.

You cant get any higher than that.


And you guys applaud it.

You didn't build that argument.

 

[Victorian Gray]

This is going to be sooo good.

You must lead an awfully empty life.

 

[Victorian Gray]

I literally saw everything I needed in the very first video by that local TV station (the bedroom interview) and the picture released soon after.

You're full of shit.

Here's how it went down:

Came across a Slashdot post about this in my Facebook feed.

Clicked the source link and ended up on that local TV station's page.

Started to watch the bedroom interview video and only got a little way into the video before I concluded that the news reporters were fooled and the kid didn't build anything. Without even getting 1/3rd of the way through, I turned stopped the video because it was making me cringe to see the news reporters be so stupid as to believe these boards and wires were "inventions."

Immediately thought of the Balloon Boy hoax. Considered the possibility that it was a deliberate hoax to gain traction on social media (also like KFC girl and Wendy's chili finger), but didn't see anything else to confirm malicious intent.

I saw a few other blogs (Gizmodo, Wired, etc) mention it in my Facebook feed, but I didn't click them.

I saw Red Squirrel's "TIL" thread in ATOT and realized people there were getting fooled, so I came right in and said what was completely obvious to me. The OP linked the same TV station's article and video.

I finished the watching the whole video and it further reinforced my initial impression.

I posted a second time in that thread, admonishing everyone for not being a little bit more cynical about such things.

Gothamhunter posted a picture that he thought was the clock (it clearly wasn't). Some people got the wrong impression based on that picture.

Then the real picture was posted in the thread.

Seeing the wire on the latch, combined with the kid's comments in the bedroom interview video, revealed some confusing things about the kid's awareness and intentions.

The bandwagon trainwreck continued off-the-God-damn-rails. I was attacked by the likes of you for suggesting the kid was anything less than a bonafide genius. I was told I couldn't do that sort of thing when I was 14 or even now (from people who inexplicably still believed the kid had actually done something significant). Bullshit. Any 7-year-old could do that, and a 14-year-old should know better than to build something so dangerous you could get electrocuted by it. he should have been ashamed of it, not "proud."

I had absolutely no reason to search the Internet or read blogs for information. I already had *all* the information I needed from the original video and the picture that was released...but I admit I did a quick Google search to verify if the picture was genuine.

I digested information from both threads and was repeatedly accused by you of reposting talking points by right-wing blogs I do not read.

Believe me or don't, but stop with the bullshit accusations. It's not true.

I'm sure that it was all coincidence.

 

[Ichinisan]

I'm sure that it was all coincidence.

"Coincidence?" No.

It was all obvious.

The only explanations for not seeing the same things in the same 2 sources:
- ignorance
- self delusion

 

[JSt0rm]

walls of text all up in this thread.

 

[JSt0rm]

so much effort posting.

 

[Victorian Gray]

"Coincidence?" No.

It was all obvious.

The only explanations for not seeing the same things in the same 2 sources:
- ignorance
- self delusion

Whatever makes you feel better.

 

[Ichinisan]

Coming through social media, 4chan trolls discovered the kid's online handle and are harassing his accounts now.

They should leave the kid alone. If there's a villain / manipulator here, I honestly believe it would be the kid's father. The kid seems slightly autistic to me.

 

[BoberFett]

so much effort posting.

That you DON'T put any effort into your posts is painfully obvious.

 

[JSt0rm]

That you DON'T put any effort into your posts is painfully obvious.

Why would I do something stupid like try hard in p&n?

 

[disappoint]

Coming through social media, 4chan trolls discovered the kid's online handle and are harassing his accounts now.

They should leave the kid alone. If there's a villain / manipulator here, I honestly believe it would be the kid's father. The kid seems slightly autistic to me.

He's not slightly autistic. He's a typical 14 year old kid who is particularly adept at being stupid. His father sees that this brainiac will never amount to much if he doesn't pursue a life in politics where all talentless buffoons are welcome, so he is grooming him for a life in politics. That is all this whole fiasco has been about. What else can his father teach him but the only thing he's good at?

 

[SlickSnake]

Holy shit, they have the authority to do that???

I'm sure there is more to this "pencil twirling" story that you referred to than meets the eye. The little bully was probably threatening and stabbing other kids with the pencil, but it was spun by the media and his parents that he was some kind of harmless victim himself. I still have 5 visible marks on me where 2 vicious, fat and ugly females stabbed me with pencils because I would not kiss them in class. And the crazy girls got no punishment for doing it, other than a verbal warning. But if a guy had done it, I bet they would have taken it more seriously.

They also have the legal authority to take away all your kids on a false rumor of possible abuse from a complete stranger without any way to verify it, too.

Did you forget about all the highly questionable circumstances surrounding the raiding of the Warren Jeffs Mormon compound in Texas which was supposedly to save all the kids from horrible abuse? After the raid, the raiders finally grudgingly admitted the liar with the fake abuse tip had never even been to the compound.

And I believe this case is still being litigated because the state immediately took over the compound and froze all their assets in spite of later discovering the original abuse claims were from a serial liar who simply hated polygamists and wanted to see them punished just for shits and giggles.

 

[SlickSnake]

And back on topic, this kid is a complete fool for doing this glaringly obvious publicity stunt without asking for permission to bring it to school to show it off in the first place. You don't just casually cart around unknown electronic parts to school in a briefcase for no reason. Was there a science fair or was it required for some reason? No, it clearly was not.

And what many of you who are making excuses for his idiotic behaviour completely fail to realize is the main reason he got in trouble was not because of his skin color, but because they were sending a message that it's not OK to bring a briefcase full of unknown electronics to school without permission to do so. Everything you do in public school that is out of the ordinary REQUIRES PERMISSION FIRST. And only an idiot would even think otherwise.

The school has a responsibility not just to teach but to also protect other students from possible threats and harm. And the electronic engineering idiot should have already known that without having to be disciplined about his questionable behavior at school.

Meanwhile, his parents are highly suspect in all this, too, based on media reports. Maybe they all need a little visit from CPS if the parents don't have more common sense than letting him cart this briefcase clock off to school for no obvious reasons.

 

[BoberFett]

Why would I do something stupid like try hard in p&n?

Finally, the idiot admits that everything he posts is worthless, much like his life.