Clock Kid - Page 2

Boreas · #1 09-20-2015, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by catswiththum

14 year old males, regardless of race, creed, or national origin, are assholes by nature - just how it is.

Remember when you were 14? I was PIA on a stick.

I'm still grateful my Dad didn't just lock me in the garage until I wised up . . .

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

catswiththum · #2 09-20-2015, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Boreas

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

I resemble that remark . . .

If nothing else, the years have taught me to choose my moments of tomfoolery with an eye for self preservation.

Boreas · #3 09-20-2015, 02:57 PM

I was going to write a long post about how this whole thing was bullshit and how it was really a case of a racist teacher and a racist police force trying to humiliate and harrass a Muslim kid with a brain. The Daily Kos saved me the trouble.

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I said: it's sad they thought that kid had a bomb.
She said: they didn't think he had a bomb.
I said: yes, they thought he made a bomb and even called the police.
She said: They just wanted to humiliate a little Muslim boy. They didn't think he had a bomb.
I said: Don't be a conspiracy theorist. They might be a little prejudiced, but I'm sure they thought he had a bomb.
She said: OK.
But they didn't evacuate the school, like you do when there's a bomb.
They didn't call a bomb squad - like you do when there's a bomb.
They didn't get as far away from him as possible, like you do when there's a bomb.
Then they put him and the clock in an office: not like you do when there's a bomb
Then they waited with him for the police to arrive, and then they put the clock in the same car as the police.
Then they took pictures of it.

I said: Damn.....They never thought he had a bomb.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/0...l=emailclassic

Tom Joad · #4 09-20-2015, 03:57 PM

I don't know this Dawkins guy from Adam, but he seems to have a similar take on this kid as I do.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...usaolp00000592

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Richard Dawkins' dubious Twitter form underwent a further mutation on Sunday, with the author claiming Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Texas teenager arrested last week on suspicion of building a bomb, was guilty of "fraud."

The 74-year-old evolutionary biologist and noted atheist sent out a slew of tweets over the weekend chastising the ninth-grader for not even building a clock. Some observers have dissected the photo police handed out of the device Mohamed built, claiming he just shuffled around clock parts inside a pencil case.

barbara · #5 09-20-2015, 03:09 PM

I saw an interview on tv with this kid.... Something just didn't feel right about something he said.

I hope he was just a bright, nerdy kid making a clock, but the feeling I got was reminiscent of the balloon boy hoax.....