Kids get in trouble for faking bomb threats all the time. It's happened more than once at my kid's school. The intent of the kid is very relevant.

If a kid builds a clock and it looks like a clock and he says it's a clock, then any reasonable person should understand that it's a clock.

This "it was obviously not a bomb, and only a moron who watches too many movies would question it," rhetoric makes no sense. How many people here would stake their lives and the lives of children they're entrusted to protect on their expertise at eliminating the possiblity that case with a bunch of electronics and a digital read out is a bomb? No, hopefully, with our schools' recent history of attacks and current policies in place everyone would err on the side of caution and ask questions until they are satisfied.

Why they weren't satisfied with the kids responses is the main issue in my mind. I assume there was some racism involved, but I'm not prepared to come down on a bunch of concerned teachers, school officials and police for doing what they thought was most prudent without knowing the full story. The proposed solution of just be less racist and stupid is a silly simplification and solves nothing, imo.

I think it's only fair for Obama to give that white kid with the Pop-Tart gun a free trip to the White House and a swag bag from Smith and Wesson.

Also, lol movie bombs.

who confiscates something they actually think is a bomb?

also

definitely not a known dabbler

For some reason 2p2 is working at my work today. Weird. Anywhere he's a couple more points:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mW4w0Y1OXE

So he was definitely aware of the possibility that this thing might be perceived as something suspicious and "like a threat". Why else would a pencil box be a threat?

Kid goes on Larry Wilmore and says it was kind of cool to be arrested, yet family is suing for emotional distress.

Yeah I know NRO, but I assume they aren't just making up the quote:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...-on-earth.html

If there's a suspected bomb then you evacuate the building and call the authorities. There's no middle ground where you think it might be a bomb enough to do something but don't believe it is enough to treat it like a real bomb.

That's how it is in the UK anyway. if it's different in the USA then I don't get it.

Suzzer was the guy who heard about astroturfers and then found them under every low post count rock. Buying into clock-gate is absolutely standard for him.

his sister was helping him answer, as though she thought his every single word would be incredibly and overly scrutinized on every media website in the entire country, which then happened?

wow, she is smart

Story is basically perfect for internet politard fighting. There isn't enough actual info out there about what happened so everyone can make up his own story. Want to believe he was a 14 year old jackass who built this thing and then was joking with his jackass buddies in the hallway that it's the bomb, yo then proceed. Want to believe if it was a white kid the teachers would have been all "Tee hee you little scamp" then you can head down that road too. I, for one, say **** this kid and his ****ty pencil box clock. He should get a job.

So it's not cool to express opinions, even if massively qualified as "if I had to bet", unless a) we have an arrestable standard or proof behind them or b) if it doesn't change anything. Got it.

Let's be very very clear. His sister was suspended because someone else said she said something about blowing up the school, which she denied happened. IE she admitted someone lied about her because of her faith and she received no benefit of the doubt because of her faith. She was suspended for three days.

This doesn't strengthen the "took a clock to school and told everyone it was a clock to get arrested... on purpose" story. Its just another Muslim being railroaded on no evidence and clearly no one took the claim seriously.

Other than this literally nothing has changed. He reassembled a clock, always said it was a clock, it had no non clock parts, no one actually thought it was a bomb ever and the police over reaction putting him in cuffs like he is a dangerous criminal was a ****ing huge overreaction.

Anyone who claim more might be happening here is a ****ing idiot. There is zero evidence of that.

Can we call the containment thread "Clock Boy Begins"?

Clock Rockin' Beats imo.

Or Clock Fakes and Hot Takes.

the clock boy we deserve

A Clock Too Far for my Airborne homies.

Allahu Clockbar

Dr. Clocklove: Or How I Came To Love The Pencil Box Bomb.

That one might be a little too gay pornish tbh.

Clock and Load

These are the best imo

Barackin' Around the Clock.
Time Bomb.

That's all I got.

Wow that was a quick pivot from hey "you low-info racist" to "well yeah maybe the kid brought a clock purposely to instigate something to point out double standards/social injustice".

I'm not necessarily against the kid purposely bringing a clock to point out the double standard. But it does speak to why he might be less than forthcoming and come off as suspicious with the school and the cops - if part of his motivation is to provoke a reaction.

And then it turned out their were astroturfers who even admitted to it like RedBean, but you continued undeterred like it never happened.