Irving 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?' - Polidicks

[quote]IRVING — Ahmed Mohamed — who makes his own radios and repairs his own go-kart — hoped to impress his teachers when he brought a homemade clock to MacArthur High on Monday. Instead, the school phoned police about Ahmed’s circuit-stuffed pencil case. So the 14-year-old missed the student council meeting and took a trip in handcuffs to juvenile detention. His clock now sits in an evidence room. Police say they may yet charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock. In the meantime, Ahmed’s been suspended, his father is upset and the Council on American-Islamic Relations is once again eyeing claims of Islamophobia in Irving. Box of circuit boards A box full of circuit boards sits at the foot of Ahmed’s small bed in central Irving. His door marks the border where the Mohamed family’s cramped but lavishly decorated house begins to look like the back room at RadioShack. “Here in high school, none of the teachers know what I can do,” Ahmed said, fiddling with a cable while a soldering iron dangled from the shelf behind him. He loved robotics club in middle school and was searching for a similar niche in his first few weeks of high school. So he decided to do what he’s always done: He built something. Ahmed’s clock was hardly his most elaborate creation. He said he threw it together in about 20 minutes before bed on Sunday: a circuit board and power supply wired to a digital display, all strapped inside a case with a tiger hologram on the front. He showed it to his engineering teacher first thing Monday morning and didn’t get quite the reaction he’d hoped. “He was like, ‘That’s really nice,’” Ahmed said. “‘I would advise you not to show any other teachers.’” 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. “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. They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.” Ahmed felt suddenly conscious of his brown skin and his name — one of the most common in the Muslim religion. But the police kept him busy with questions. The bell rang at least twice, he said, while the officers searched his belongings and questioned his intentions. The principal threatened to expel him if he didn’t make a written statement, he said. “They were like, ‘So you tried to make a bomb?’” Ahmed said. “I told them no, I was trying to make a clock.” “He said, ‘It looks like a movie bomb to me.’” Police skepticism Ahmed never claimed his device was anything but a clock, said police spokesman James McLellan. And police have no reason to think it was dangerous. But officers still didn’t believe Ahmed was giving them the whole story. “We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb,” McLellan said. “He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation.” Asked what broader explanation the boy could have given, the spokesman explained: “It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?” Police led Ahmed out of MacArthur about 3 p.m., his hands cuffed behind him and an officer on each arm. A few students gaped in the halls. He remembers the shocked expression of his student counselor — the one “who knows I’m a good boy.” [/quote] [url]http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece[/url] [I]sigh[/I]

This is ridiculous.

it's like they're TRYING to get people, regardless of whether they've done anything or not

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Heaven forbid a brown lad should show an interest in anything related to EE. Because it's like the height of what those sneaky terrorists do, they bring components of their future bomb for show and tell to class. Tomorrow, Ahmed will be bringing in his centrifuge and then the police can be absolutely sure that HEU will not be far behind. Doing shit like this, at such a young age, is what turns normal people (who already have to face anxiety about fitting into western society post 9/11) into extremists as they keep facing systematic rejection like this.

i hope the school and the police get sued to shit

[QUOTE=elitehakor;48691782]i hope the school and the police get sued to shit[/QUOTE] They can get sued all they want, but knowing that kid, this shit has already irreversibly fucked him up about the way he views the people at his school. Honestly I hope to god he just changes schools and goes to a place that's more sane than deal with crazies like this and who appreciate him for the talents that he has (I mean, if he keeps it up he has a really bright future in embdedd systems and robotics).

Why are public schools run by retards?

reminds me when I brought a laser pointer to school that was made out of a few batteries, a CD player laser Diode, and a mint can. good thing I was white or else i'd be in prison right now.

[quote]“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”[/quote] it was built to tell the time you fuckhead

[QUOTE=Saxon;48691823]Why are [b]public schools[/b] run by retards?[/QUOTE] There you go. There isn't an incentive to give a fuck. The private sector always gets the best talent, because they can demand more money for their skills. The leftovers (and some socially minded -like the engineering prof) go into public because what else would they do? [sp]I've been to both public and private schools and although I liked public more, private was always hands down better for teaching quality[/sp].

[QUOTE=meppers;48691827]reminds me when I brought a laser pointer to school that was made out of a few batteries, a CD player laser Diode, and a mint can. good thing I was white or else i'd be in prison right now.[/QUOTE] You're not the only one - when I was in university, a friend and I were jokingly posing using some unloaded and broken BB guns (with the orange tip and everything that should've made it clear it wasn't even a real gun) we got as props for an animation exercise and someone on his Facebook page saw a picture of me with it and had a bunch of campus security people swing by my dorm and to ask me questions and search through my stuff. It really changed the way I thought I was viewed as a brown dude - more of a "guilty until proven innocent" attitude which had no relation to me as a person.

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What the fuck, is this normal?

Irving, Euless, and Hurst all have fairly dense Muslim/Middle Eastern populations. His dad is completely correct about how the Islamic relationship is around the area: I see things said on local Twitter every day relating to anti-Islamic sentiment and hardcore patriotism, like "If you don't stand for the pledge of alligance, take your turban and go join ISIS with the rest of the Muslims." -- and statements like these always get huge support with no one calling them out on their belligerent racism.

Poor kid. I hope he's absolved of any charges. This is beyond cruel and only punishes someone that was enthusiastic about education. Way to go.

Good old Irving. They should have bulldozed the whole place while they were demolishing the Cowboy's Stadium.

this sounds like the plot to a fucking south park episode

[quote]“It could reasonably be mistaken as a device if left in a bathroom or under a car. The concern was, what was this thing built for? Do we take him into custody?”[/quote] That's the part that really pisses me off. He's saying the student didn't do anything, so why would you need to even think about taking him into custody? Suspicion of making a device that might scare someone if they found it in a bathroom or under car!?!? He can't be serious, if he is he's the stupidest person OF ALL TIME. Even for racists, that's beyond stupid.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;48692050]That's the part that really pisses me off. He's saying the student didn't do anything, so why would you need to even think about taking him into custody? Suspicion of making a device that might scare someone if they found it in a bathroom or under car!?!? He can't be serious, if he is he's the stupidest person OF ALL TIME. Even for racists, that's beyond stupid.[/QUOTE] So glad the cops here aren't that stupid. Lazy but not fucking retarded.

Well, ironically, this is potentially a way to create a terrorist. :goodjob:

[QUOTE=Saxon;48691823]Why are [B]schools[/B] run by retards?[/QUOTE] ftfy

The idea of taking a child like that out of a school in handcuffs has me so angry right now.

[quote]They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”[/quote] Wow what a tremendous asshole.

This reminds of Harold and Kumar.

[QUOTE=Ruski v2.0;48691849]There you go. There isn't an incentive to give a fuck. The private sector always gets the best talent, because they can demand more money for their skills. The leftovers (and some socially minded -like the engineering prof) go into public because what else would they do? [sp]I've been to both public and private schools and although I liked public more, private was always hands down better for teaching quality[/sp].[/QUOTE] The first thing Finland did to reform its school system was raise teaching standards and make the job high paying with tons of gov benefits. Best in the world and not all privatized.

What the fuck? Nobody raised a brow at the Polish kid when I brought a homemade [del]bomb[/del] clock to my high school classes, with the scary nixie tube numbers and everything.

[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_bomb_scare]Reminder that Boston once mistook Aqua Teen Hunger Force LED advertisements for bombs, and even after that was resolved the advertisers were still held responsible and had to settle for like $2 million, a written apology and the resignation of Cartoon Network's executive VP.[/url]

[QUOTE=Ruski v2.0;48691849]There you go. There isn't an incentive to give a fuck. The private sector always gets the best talent, because they can demand more money for their skills. The leftovers (and some socially minded -like the engineering prof) go into public because what else would they do? [sp]I've been to both public and private schools and although I liked public more, private was always hands down better for teaching quality[/sp].[/QUOTE] I think your country is just a shithole. Public school teachers around here tend to be pretty professional-minded in my experience.

But guys he had a [i]muslim [/i] name. Of course it could have been a bomb!