Texas teenager arrested after a homemade clock was mistaken for a bomb

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PickelledEggs

#45
September 18, 2015, 11:17:33 AM
Quote from: peacewithoutgod on September 18, 2015, 09:49:42 AM
It takes a serious asshole for a mod to discourage people from speaking their minds, and you have stunk like that before.
I don't know how much of "speaking your mind" it is to comment simply with saying "Cindy's asshole is trolling again...**sigh**"

drunkenshoe

#46
September 18, 2015, 11:23:16 AM Last Edit: September 18, 2015, 11:33:49 AM by drunkenshoe
Quote from: Atheon on September 18, 2015, 02:13:57 AM
Trying to picture how this situation evolved:

Science teacher: OK, class. I'm assigning you guys a science project. Have it ready by the end of the month.
Time passes.
Science teacher: All right, please share with the class what you did for your science project.
Lily White: Here's mine. It's an erupting volcano. See how it shoots out hot lava?
Science teacher: Very nice, Lily. Who's up next? How about you, Osama... I mean Ahmed? What have you got for us?
Ahmed Mohammed: It's a clock I built. Pretty cool, huh?
Science teacher: Eek, it's a bomb! I knew it! You Mooslims are all terrorists. Help, police!!!

:rotflmao:

The real bit behind all this is that they can't even think that a muslim kid would be able to make somethig like that by himself for the science class. The bomb paranoia completes the scene. If there wasn't a 9/11, the kid sparents would have been called and asked "who made this?!"





"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

Poison Tree

#47
September 18, 2015, 11:23:43 AM
Quote from: peacewithoutgod on September 18, 2015, 09:10:06 AM
I'm just saying that it's natural to have "bomb" on your mind when you see factors which are known to amount to a bomb
By "factors which are known to amount to a bomb" you mean electronics? Wires?

Know what usually is inside a bomb? Explosives, shrapnel, a detonator/fuse and a trigger. What's in this kid's clock? Explosives? no. Shrapnel? no. Detonator? no. A Trigger? Sure, a clock or some wires could be part of a trigger for a bomb. So could a clock or watch someone bought. Or a cell phone. Things that most of the kids in that school would have been walking around with.

Maybe I can understand a nervous teacher thinking it is a bomb--although if a kid did bring a bomb to school, why would he show it to teachers while calling it a clock? Wouldn't he just, you know, blow shit up?--but for the police to look in it, see no explosives, no shrapnel and to think "we better arrest this guy just in case" is moronic. I don't think the police actually thought that it was a bomb. If they had, wouldn't they have evacuated the school and sent in the bomb squad? Yet they still arrested him and the school still suspended him. I suppose that if some kid brought oregano to Home Ec he would have been arrested and suspended even after it became clear that it wasn't actually marijuana.
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pr126

#48
September 18, 2015, 11:24:03 AM Last Edit: September 18, 2015, 11:32:45 AM by pr126
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O21xFX7QBpE

I think that if a white Christian boy came to school with the same shit he would be treated just the same.

Except, no invitation to the White House.

Hydra009

#49
September 18, 2015, 11:29:37 AM
Quote from: aitm on September 18, 2015, 09:05:34 AMI read a different article that had a different teacher making the call, not the science teacher.
It was the English teacher.  Cue stereotype about english teachers not knowing anything about technology.

peacewithoutgod

#50
September 18, 2015, 11:33:25 AM Last Edit: September 18, 2015, 11:50:21 AM by peacewithoutgod
Quote from: PickelledEggs on September 18, 2015, 11:17:33 AM
I don't know how much of "speaking your mind" it is to comment simply with saying "Cindy's asshole is trolling again...**sigh**"


It so happens that Cindy doe little else other than troll around here, and there's a confession yesterday in black and white "yes, I am fucking with people here".

You tend to use that word "whining" a lot, plus no small degree of snark. Both are bad form when a moderator addresses forum members, as I've seen you do with others. You're supposed to be the mature person here.
There are two types of ideas: fact and non-fact. Ideas which are not falsifiable are non-fact, therefore please don't insist your fantasies of supernatural beings are in any way factual.

Doctrine = not to be questioned = not to be proven = not fact. When you declare your doctrine fact, you lie.

drunkenshoe

#51
September 18, 2015, 11:45:47 AM
You realise he is not a kindergarten teacher, right?
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

PickelledEggs

#52
September 18, 2015, 11:46:45 AM
Peacewithoutgod... You jumped to conclusions saying "Cindy's asshole is trolling again".

There isn't any reason to call her an asshole and I am addressing that. Now stop arguing and whining that I'm talking to you about this, move on, and stop needlessly insulting other members.

peacewithoutgod

#53
September 18, 2015, 11:51:41 AM
Quote from: drunkenshoe on September 18, 2015, 11:45:47 AM
You realise he is not a kindergarten teacher, right?
Kreist, for the kids I sure hope not!
There are two types of ideas: fact and non-fact. Ideas which are not falsifiable are non-fact, therefore please don't insist your fantasies of supernatural beings are in any way factual.

Doctrine = not to be questioned = not to be proven = not fact. When you declare your doctrine fact, you lie.

Mike Cl

#54
September 18, 2015, 11:58:35 AM
Quote from: CrucifyCindy on September 17, 2015, 04:54:58 PM
But he isn't black...
According to the Supreme Court, if he has 1/8 Negro blood in him, then he is Negro.  Plessy vs Ferguson.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

drunkenshoe

#55
September 18, 2015, 11:58:49 AM
Quote from: peacewithoutgod on September 18, 2015, 11:51:41 AM
Kreist, for the kids I sure hope not!

That was aimed at you, not to him. Hint.
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

Mike Cl

#56
September 18, 2015, 12:05:29 PM
If Cindy wants to fuck with us on this board, that's fine with me, as long as she insists that I wear a condom.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

drunkenshoe

#58
September 18, 2015, 12:18:32 PM
Quote from: Mike Cl on September 18, 2015, 12:05:29 PM
If Cindy wants to fuck with us on this board, that's fine with me, as long as she insists that I wear a condom.

And probably you are among just a very few here who can say something like that and doesn't sound a bit crass or sexist. :kiss: Well, imho.
"his philosophy was a mixture of three famous schools -the cynics, the stoics and the epicureans-and summed up all three of them in his famous phrase, 'you can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink.'" terry pratchett

AllPurposeAtheist

#59
September 18, 2015, 01:38:47 PM
I used to live about 6 blocks from McArthur HS in Irving so I'm guessing that the real crime was he wasn't wearing shoulder pads and a football helmet because the HS's in Irving all have stadiums big enough to rival most big 10 stadiums. Science classes are fairly low on the list of importance there.
By Irving standards anyone not playing football are automatically suspect and making a clock is akin to being an actual terrorist.
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