Yes, it would be really funny. I can imagine the headlines, on these boards.
Red haired ATOT poster, confirmed, shot dead by armed (S.W.A.T.) team.
But it was well worth it. As he managed to prank the police, into believing his pile of electronics was a bomb.
It was REALLY funny for him, for the 6.7 seconds, BEFORE the first of the fatal shots were fired.
I have the overwhelming urge to head on out, find a craft store, purchase a fat lump of modeling clay, and attach a kitchen timer to it.
But I'd probably get shot on the way home.
It didn't. It resembled a hoax bomb. They told the kid the implications of a hoax bomb. They decided not to charge him.
Everyone in the Blogosphere and social media lost their collective minds.
For your statement to make sense you are assuming he the response wasn't appropriate simply because it wasn't a bomb. The thing is, it isn't between bomb/not-bomb or bomb/clock, it's between bomb/not-bomb/hoax-bomb. Forget that it doesn't look like a real bomb because that isn't the only concern here. Don't deny that it looks like a hoax bomb because it totally does.Everyone keeps talking about suspicious packages, and 'how would they know if it's a bomb'. I think that's not thinking the problem through.
He wasn't hiding it, he was showing it off, and it wasn't found unattended. If you showed me a box full of wires and said 'hey, this is a clock' I'll assume it's a clock. If I find a box full of wires with a count down timer unattended under a car or a desk I'll assume it's a bomb.
Yes, you did. You said that "it" shouldn't have happened. By "it" you were specifically saying that he should not have been taken out of class and questioned about the possibility of it being a hoax bomb (follow the quote tree). I explained that he was out of class for PART of a day and that "suspension" is an exaggeration and yet it goes in one ear and out the other because you went right back to it in this post.no i did not say that or even hint it. They can investigate it without the suspension and arrest. There was no need to take it that far for something that appears to be a kid trying to get brownie points at school.
The clock looks to me like something a kid with some extra cash and a little knowledge would do. Nothing amazing but slightly better then what any other child could do.
If the reporting is accurate, he was placed under arrest and taken to a juvi detention center. That's going farther than I would have gone.
Handcuffed and given the perp walk at your high school would suck. But ultimately the attention it generated will more than outweigh the embarrassment. He's already been invited to the White House and I wouldn't be surprised to see him get a few scholarship offers.
For your statement to make sense you are assuming he the response
Yes, you did. You said that "it" should have happened. By "it" you were specifically saying that he should not have been taken out of class and questioned about the possibility of it being a hoax bomb (follow the quote tree). I explained that he was out of class for PART of a day and that "suspension" is an exaggeration and yet it goes in one ear and out the other because you went right back to it in this post.
"What is that?" "My invention."
As far as you know the kid's answers weren't adding up at first, especially if his parents coached him for SJW purposes.
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..did you miss your coffee? you seem to be off today.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=37706302&postcount=189
You do know that "Suspended until Thurday" means "taken out of school for questioning and sent back the very next day," don't you? Who's reading abilities are in question here?
Sent home early due to questioning, basically.
this is the text i quoted. You said he was taken out and suspended.
I said that should not happen. as in the suspension.
Take him out of class and talk with him. To suspend him (that is what it was) and then to arrest him was wrong.
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/is...killed-syria-wants-save-others-ordeal-n344091When Christianne Boudreau's son, Damien, converted to Islam, adopted a strict set of rules and grew his beard out four years ago at the age of 17, she was accepting and open-minded.
But she noticed other changes in Damien's behavior: He wouldn't come to the dinner table if the family was drinking wine. He started taking phone calls outside and became withdrawn. Then, he stopped coming home altogether.
"I just saw it as a phase he was going through," Boudreau told NBC News.
What she didn't know in 2011 was that her son, who grew up in a Catholic household, was becoming radicalized. Boudreau said she believes he was first introduced to ISIS extremism by someone in their home city of Calgary, Canada, and then lured in further over the Internet by ISIS propaganda in the form of texts and slickly produced videos.
Her experience is echoed in other recent cases that have gained notoriety, as law enforcement tackle the problem of homegrown extremism and would-be terrorists hailing from the U.S., Canada and the U.K. attempting to join ISIS.
Just to recap?
I wonder how TX feels right about now?
Also, I wonder how those officers and teachers/admin feel right about now?
Considering in a few years this kid will be making more than all of them combined!!!!!!
I was going to be angry at america, but then I saw the picture. Did he really bring that briefcase full of wires and a huge red digital "countdown timer" to school? It couldn't look more like a bomb if it had "bomb" written on it.
I was going to be angry at america, but then I saw the picture. Did he really bring that briefcase full of wires and a huge red digital "countdown timer" to school? It couldn't look more like a [movie/hoax] bomb if it had "bomb" written on it.
Then you are seriously saying that they should not have taken him out of class to ask questions, which is what you said was all they were entitled to do earlier. So: Which is it?...I said that should not happen. as in the suspension.
There you go again. That is all is was. Suspension is a punishment, yet there was no punishment/suspension issued. He was not kicked out of school or suspended from returning to school, he was taken out of class/school for questioning. He was not forced to miss a day as punishment, which is what it means to be "suspended from school." He went to school yesterday and he is welcome back today, meaning he missed a PARTIAL day due to REASONABLE concerns. Don't act childish by going back to "LOL! 'Reasonable?!' Only an idiot would think that looks like a bomb!" It looked REASONABLY like a hoax bomb, which is pretty serious on its own.Take him out of class and talk with him. To suspend him (that is what it was) and then to arrest him was wrong.
Just to recap?
I wonder how TX feels right about now?
Also, I wonder how those officers and teachers/admin feel right about now?
Considering in a few years this kid will be making more than all of them combined!!!!!!
I bet they feel silly.
Though i have my doubts about the kid making more then all of them combined. He is not the next elon musk. while cool he made a clock it's really not that hard. many here has done that and more at a younger age.
I do feel the pendalum has swung the other way on the kid. I am reading post that he should be given a full ride to places like MIT and such. That he should be offered jobs with people like Musk.
sure its cool that he gets to see Obama. I do think that is a great gesture on his part. but some things are getting silly.
Do you mean how do the normal people here feel? Tired of the crazy people getting us all painted with the same brush.
I did notice that the crazies are being extra-crazy today, judging by the comments on some of the news articles I've read.
I bet they feel silly.
Though i have my doubts about the kid making more then all of them combined. He is not the next elon musk. while cool he made a clock it's really not that hard. many here has done that and more at a younger age.
I do feel the pendalum has swung the other way on the kid. I am reading post that he should be given a full ride to places like MIT and such. That he should be offered jobs with people like Musk.
sure its cool that he gets to see Obama. I do think that is a great gesture on his part. but some things are getting silly.
I thought about this for a second.
Maybe his parents knew the climate of the school and told him to do this. Knowing it will get national attention and a free ticket to a lot of things. Kind of interesting theory....
You're guilty by Association. Sorry!!!!
But was this the first time in you're beautiful state of TX?
This is what I've been saying. The knee-jerk reaction by everyone all over social media may be exactly what they wanted and counted on. it's not far fetched and it's surprisingly easy to do. It would explain a lot, like why his answers weren't satisfying the officers at first (coached by parents) or why he would bust up a clock and put it in a busted case and tie it closed with wire and call it an "invention."
If it's a clock and you made it out of a clock, what, exactly, did you "invent?"
The timing perfectly fits this being a planned reaction to some extra precautions the school may have taken a few days earlier on the anniversary of 9-11.
Correct, this was done right after 9/11 and before the next GOP debate.
Yet, if you look at this from a view of Occam's razor, the simplest and "low assumption" explanation invalidates this theory.