Clocks and Pastries

[Ziggy and Angelbaby]

Just been reading about a few incidents where schoolkids were suspended (or worse) for really stupid reasons. The fourteen year old Ahmed Mohamed who was actually arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. At no point did he ever claim it was a bomb, and at no point did he ever threaten to bomb anything. It was a clock; it was meant to, you know, keep time. Unfortunately, his name might as well have been "I am a terrorist" to stupid, frightened people. This led me to the grade school student who was suspended for making a "level 2 lookalike firearm" with - and I'm not kidding - his forefinger and thumb. We have people in the U.S. who think we should have more ACTUAL GUNS on school campuses. Kid gets suspended for being a primate, essentially. There was also the seven year old who got in trouble for meticulously biting a Pop-Tart into a gun shape. We are more afraid of clocks and pastries in this country than we are of actual guns. I think people are getting stupider all the time.

[Sour Soul]

Dude, their a lot of things that are going on that does upset me, recent one for me is a police officer getting shot and killed while he was fueling his patrol car.

World is far too stupid, in which it's too much to bear that I stop caring. I still get some news from a local talk radio show, that Amena and I fairly enjoy on the weekdays.

So with this kid being arrested for making a clock question how do they even conclude... (Looks up the story) Well, their your fu*king problem, dumbasses jump the conclusion because he is a Muslim. Yet I can't help the teacher to think so, but it's pretty messed up how they most likely associate the kid for his background. Still, he is a kid who has knack and interested for engineering, and thinking he was building a bomb make this story bad for everyone involve.

Kinda make me wonder how this will play out if the kid was white. Hooray for discrimination!

At least he got to met Obama at the White House, but it's a shame how the school had done him wrong like that.

[Ziggy and Angelbaby]

Kinda make me wonder how this will play out if the kid was white. Hooray for discrimination!

At least he got to met Obama at the White House, but it's a shame how the school had done him wrong like that.

I imagine it wouldn't have even been an issue. His only "crime" was not being white; it's bullshit. I'm really glad at how the president responded, though. And I read that the kid was later surprised during an interview by an astrophysics professor from MIT (his dream school). So at least some non-idiots are trying to make up for how stupidly paranoid the school and law enforcement were.

[Sour Soul]

PS: I still think he would of been arrested if he was white.

Wow, now seeing this clock, I can see him being arrested for this.

It does look like the kind of bomb you think, thanks to good old action movies... but now I wonder if real bombs were and made like that... in suitcases and with large numbers to represent time, but if I was that teacher, principal, or police officer, I would blow the whistle on this... despite being a fourteen kid. For all I know he could of been told to bring that "bomb" to school with him knowing what it's or something that made this sh*t fly everywhere.

[Ziggy and Angelbaby]

Reading more. Discovering more stupidity. Despite having contacted law enforcement and treating the clock as though it were a bomb, the school was not evacuated. Sounds as though faculty were freely allowed around the not-bomb. Then there was a point where law enforcement was certain that it was merely a hoax bomb; which probably explains the hours of interrogation during which they seemingly tried to convince Ahmed that that's what it was he'd actually made. Because if it's just a clock that he'd never claimed was a bomb, it makes everyone else look really fucking stupid.

But clearly Ahmed didn't realize how deeply ingrained the desire to make bombs is in his nature and his DNA.

^ Sarcasm.