TIL: Building a clock in Texas is illegal

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Red Squirrel

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It's not science to put something in a different case. It's not even engineering. A million PC modders have done that. I'd encourage the kid to continue being creative and learn more, but a scientist he ain't.

Got to start somewhere though. It's sad that society and even people of authority are basically telling him to stop. When I was a kid I made all sorts of stuff such as a wind powered crane and winch, but it was not really any different than what this kid did, I just took existing parts such as k'nex and cardboard from the recycling box, and skate laces and put them together. But at the time it was still a cool achievement for me.
 

justoh

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The often ridiculous conservatives posters seem to have it right about the situation being contrived. Oh to be a young Muslim boy again!
 

Juddog

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LOL at the conservatards flocking to this thread like flies to fresh feces.
 

Harrod

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Someone did something like this when I was in high school, it looked similar to a bomb as well, and guess what, the police were called to check it out, this was also back in 1996 or 1997.

The only reason this is on the news is because we are in a post 9/11 society and the kid is playing the victim card.
 

BlitzPuppet

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Someone did something like this when I was in high school, it looked similar to a bomb as well, and guess what, the police were called to check it out, this was also back in 1996 or 1997.

The only reason this is on the news is because we are in a post 9/11 society and the kid is playing the victim card.

I know a kid that brought a defused/hollowed out grenade to school back when I was in Jr. High for some reason (Circa 98-00).

I can't remember if he went to alternative schooling or not for that offense, but I do remember he ended up going to the same highschool as me and then ended up taking his own life before we graduated.
 

Ruptga

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That's because all your "libtard" buddies are circle jerking about this topic over in the short bus known as P&N.

If P&N is the short bus, is talking about politics and news in OT like being strapped down in the trailer behind the short bus?

Yet here we all are.
 

disappoint

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So what!!!

The foundation of this tread was the fact that a 14 yo Muslim kid got arrested for bringing in what seemly was just a clock.

You posted a video of a guy who gives a rant of how it was a clock/radio etc... Who cares.

It seems, since this whole fiasco looked stupid. Now people are spending time attacking what he's made etc... v.s. getting down to the issue.

Actually, the foundation of the tread was to have a 0.89g skidpad rating. Instead it has skidmarks from the P&N cheerleading team.
 

disappoint

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You're projecting our childhoods onto this kid. There was a kid in my neighborhood I wasn't allowed to play with because her parents somehow got the idea that I would disassemble her toys (I honestly have NO IDEA why). Perhaps this was after I had already disassembled my own NES many times, repaired shorts in the power cord many times, and replaced rubber pads in my NES controllers with a repair kit -- but I don't recall ever disassembling my friends' toys.

Despite what they told you, maybe they were more worried you'd disassemble her pants.
 

SOFTengCOMPelec

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The boy and family, do not appear to be very good or professional, at performing stunts like this.

(In my opinion) If they knew what they were doing, they would NOT be trying to sue the Police and School. Apart from the fact that the actions of the Police and School were perfectly reasonable. They could well force the hand of those and other parties, to go for FRAUD charges and stuff like that.

Ahmed Mohamed Clock a ‘Purposeful Hoax,’ Potential Fraud Case, Says Judge Napolitano

http://www.latinpost.com/articles/81030/20150922/ahmed-mohamed-clock-allegedly-a-purposeful-hoax-potential-fraud-case-says-judge-napolitano.htm

"It now appears that this was a purposeful hoax for whatever reason, we don't know," Napolitano said.
Napolitano also says that if the parents were involved in a hoax, it becomes a fraud case because thousands of dollars have been donated to their son through a legal fund, as well as a college scholarship fund.
The Mohamed family has not commented about the hoax claim.
 

SSSnail

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The boy and family, do not appear to be very good or professional, at performing stunts like this.

(In my opinion) If they knew what they were doing, they would NOT be trying to sue the Police and School. Apart from the fact that the actions of the Police and School were perfectly reasonable. They could well force the hand of those and other parties, to go for FRAUD charges and stuff like that.



http://www.latinpost.com/articles/81030/20150922/ahmed-mohamed-clock-allegedly-a-purposeful-hoax-potential-fraud-case-says-judge-napolitano.htm
Nah, they're pretty stupid because they thought they can pull a stunt like this and get away, a very stupidly thought out stunt.

Of course they wanted to sue the police, because every stupid hood rats' dream is to do something stupid, then sue the police.

Instead of balloon boy, we now have clock boy, except the clock boy is more nefarious.
 

SOFTengCOMPelec

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Nah, they're pretty stupid because they thought they can pull a stunt like this and get away, a very stupidly thought out stunt.

Of course they wanted to sue the police, because every stupid hood rats' dream is to do something stupid, then sue the police.

Instead of balloon boy, we now have clock boy, except the clock boy is more nefarious.

The TRUE story, which is probably that the family set this up, all along, on purpose, so it is FRAUD. Is increasingly coming out now.

The following, is one of many videos about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHZ0kAInxY
 

BUTCH1

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Form the Fenton link,
"When fourteen year old and aspiring engineer Ahmed Mohamed showed the digital clock he created to a teacher"

Why dear God why does everyone who speaks of this turdball call him a "creator" of anything. Would me taking the guts out of my case and stuffing it into an old microwave oven shell make me a "creator" of the "micro-puter". This has to be the most epic troll-job for the ages, "aspiring engineer"?, right...

EDIT:, Just as I thought, the parents are planning legal action, I'd bet my right nut they helped him out by cutting the hole for the jumbo LED display to show through the briefcase, https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=208&v=TEDXWtq_B3s
 
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BUTCH1

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The TRUE story, which is probably that the family set this up, all along, on purpose, so it is FRAUD. Is increasingly coming out now.

The following, is one of many videos about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQHZ0kAInxY

LOL, I KNEW his parents had to be involved, we can only hope this lands in the lap of a judge with an ounce of common sense. Gotta love how his science teacher told him EXPLICITLY not to haul it around school with him so what does he do?, brings it into his next class(English) and sets the alarm to go off twice. Lock this little beautiful being up in juvie for 6 months.
 

Ichinisan

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...by cutting the hole for the jumbo LED display to show through the briefcase

While I saw some comments on this forum early on that led me to believe there was a hole cut in it and I repeated that a few times, I searched for some kind of official source and found nothing to confirm. I no longer believe there was a hole cut for the display.
 

SOFTengCOMPelec

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It's has got more dislikes than positives (views = 20,837, likes=528 dislikes=682). So presumably many people realise that it was a purposeful hoax, and is fraudulent.

If anyone reading this post understands about computers and electronics. That boy/criminal is saying he is going to solder a cpu.
Anyone here solder a cpu themselves, in the last 12 months (I'm trying to point out, he probably hasn't a clue what he is talking about) ?

He is back to claiming he "invented" the clock.

How can there be two or more fake bomb incidents, from just one family ?
i.e. Both the boy and his sister, have separately been accused of bomb/hoax stuff.

How likely is that, unless they did it on purpose ?
 
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