Of course this happened in Irving, Texas

[Eagle In Ohio]

Seriously.......

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/muslim-b...lock-for-bomb/

[SCREAMIN EAGLE]

Seriously.......

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/muslim-b...lock-for-bomb/

Suspending the kid from school fro 3 days is a head scratcher. But why would you have a problem that the teacher was being vigilant when he thought the clock could be a bomb?

[ishimonster]

Figures you'd be all over this one

Suspending the kid from school fro 3 days is a head scratcher. But why would you have a problem that the teacher was being vigilant when he thought the clock could be a bomb?

Maybe because if any other kid brings in a homemade clock no one bats an eye?

It's sad that kids this young have to experience racism and ignorance like this.

[ishimonster]

Look at that terrorist in his NASA shirt

[Cheesesteak]

They cuffed the poor kid? WTF is wrong with people?

[SCREAMIN EAGLE]

Maybe because if any other kid brings in a homemade clock no one bats an eye?

It's sad that kids this young have to experience racism and ignorance like this.

Cry me a river. Do they make you take your shoes off before you board a plane? Is that also racism? Get a clue

[TerpEagle]

SOCIALIST!

[SCREAMIN EAGLE]

Maybe because if any other kid brings in a homemade clock no one bats an eye?

It's sad that kids this young have to experience racism and ignorance like this.

I also think you are naïve to think that if a white kid walks into a school with a homemade clock that he wouldn't be in the same position as this kid.

[TerpEagle]

I also think you are naïve to think that if a white kid walks into a school with a homemade clock that he wouldn't be in the same position as this kid.

Oh really?

http://gawker.com/7-kids-not-named-m...-to-1730999866

[Eagle In Ohio]

Two reasons

Suspending the kid from school fro 3 days is a head scratcher. But why would you have a problem that the teacher was being vigilant when he thought the clock could be a bomb?

1. This isn't vigilance, this is ignorance of the worst kind. That is, unless there's now a section in the Proper Bombing handbook that says you are to actually show your victims the bomb you're planning to detonate before you blow everyone up.

2. I think it's pretty safe to say that if this was White kid Billy Smith, the teacher would have given him an A+ and sent him on his way. However, this was Muslim kid Ahmed Mohammed, so of course there's now reason to suspect a bomb.

[SCREAMIN EAGLE]

Oh really?

http://gawker.com/7-kids-not-named-m...-to-1730999866

Nice try. The only flaw here is that all of the clocks in your story were assignments and/or projects. And many were done pre 9/11. This kid made his on his own at home and brought it to school the next day.

[stealth_rhino]

They were so concerned that it was a bomb that they never evacuated the school and never called in the bomb squad. Yet they arrested him, placed him in cuffs and perp walked him in front of his schoolmates.

They then questioned him without his parents being present and threatened hoax charges.

[stealth_rhino]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/natio...en-bomb/nngH9/

"Police said they don't think the device was dangerous, but don't believe Mohamed told them everything.

"We have no information that he claimed it was a bomb," police spokesman James McLellan said. "He kept maintaining it was a clock, but there was no broader explanation."

"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 did take Mohamed into custody, hands cuffed and two officers escorting him from the building, taking him to take his fingerprints, a mug shot and to meet his parents, KXAS reported."

[Overbrook]

"If left in a bathroom or under a car"

how about if it was found in Coach Dez's locker?

[slag]

Uh huh ... and if it had blown up I'm pretty sure you'd be saying this is lack of vigilance of the worse kind.

When it comes to devices that look like bombs in high schools ... I'm on the side of handcuffs first, questions later.