That kid who made the "clock"

[Nebe]

Originally Posted by spence

Or, an innocent kid who wants to be an engineer collides with racism and fear.

Bull#^&#^&#^&#^&. His dad is a known provocateur and had been trying to accomplish something like this for a long time.
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[scottw]

it's often hard to tell if Spence is trying to be funny or completely serious

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by spence

Or, an innocent kid who wants to be an engineer collides with racism and fear.

At best, if he was truly interested in engineering he underwhelmed people by repackaging a 30 year old clock - rather than engineering one. At worst he was trolling for notoriety.

Originally Posted by scottw

it's often hard to tell if Spence is trying to be funny or completely serious

I assume he is serious, 'xept for couture

[Rockport24]

Originally Posted by JohnR

At best, if he was truly interested in engineering he underwhelmed people by repackaging a 30 year old clock - rather than engineering one. At worst he was trolling for notoriety.

Exactly this. How is taking apart an old clock and putting it back together considered engineering?

[spence]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

Exactly this. How is taking apart an old clock and putting it back together considered engineering?

You've got to love it when a 14 year old boy is accused of plotting a terrorism hoax because his clock isn't sophisticated enough.

WTF?

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Engineering a perfect trolling excercise in American Fear mongering to his advantage
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I believe that is called "Strategic Messaging"

Originally Posted by spence

You've got to love it when a 14 year old boy is accused of plotting a terrorism hoax because his clock isn't sophisticated enough.

WTF?

He knew what he was doing. His parents likely did too.

[buckman]

Originally Posted by spence

You've got to love it when a 14 year old boy is accused of plotting a terrorism hoax because his clock isn't sophisticated enough.

WTF?

It's all relative .
14-year-old radical Islamic boys go to war every day
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[Rockport24]

Originally Posted by spence

You've got to love it when a 14 year old boy is accused of plotting a terrorism hoax because his clock isn't sophisticated enough.

WTF?

HA! the point is that the friggin thing undeniably looked like a bomb, so of course there needed to be some alarm. Oh yeah and it was in a SCHOOL. Its funny how law abiding citizens can't carry guns in schools, but fake bombs that scare people is just an overreaction and racist.

The point about engineering is that all this kid did was take apart a clock and put it in a box, as Bill Maher said: "that's like pouring cheerios into a bowl and saying you invented cereal"

OH and why does this kid need $15M, didn't facebook offer him a job for that kind of salary already???

[spence]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

HA! the point is that the friggin thing undeniably looked like a bomb, so of course there needed to be some alarm. Oh yeah and it was in a SCHOOL. Its funny how law abiding citizens can't carry guns in schools, but fake bombs that scare people is just an overreaction and racist.

I don't see how you could do anything with a clock and not make it look like a bomb, if you're a Muslim

A local Dallas paper investigated this and didn't find any evidence it was a hoax, people just want to assume...

The point about engineering is that all this kid did was take apart a clock and put it in a box, as Bill Maher said: "that's like pouring cheerios into a bowl and saying you invented cereal"

At that age I was doing the exact same thing. Rip stuff apart, put it back together. Hell, if you could make anything work you thought you were a genius.

OH and why does this kid need $15M, didn't facebook offer him a job for that kind of salary already???

I'd wager that 1) they're still pissed at how bad the kid was treated by the school and police and 2) external pressure is coaching the family to keep the story in the news.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by scottw

it's often hard to tell if Spence is trying to be funny or completely serious

either way.......... it's quite scary

[spence]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Bull#^&#^&#^&#^&. His dad is a known provocateur and had been trying to accomplish something like this for a long time.
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Is there any evidence of this?