That kid who made the "clock"

[Nebe]

His family is demanding 15 million dollars from the town and school department.

How blatantly obvious was this set up ? Build something that looks like a bomb.. Get chastised for it and then lawyer up...

[scottw]

lot's of kids will now be going to school with odd devices disguised as science projects

[spence]

Originally Posted by Nebe

How blatantly obvious was this set up ? Build something that looks like a bomb.. Get chastised for it and then lawyer up...

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

[scottw]

Originally Posted by spence

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

[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

[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?

[Nebe]

Sure. Google is your friend here.
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[spence]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Sure. Google is your friend here.
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Conspiracy theories don't count.

[buckman]

I bet the kid with the pop tart gun could get a few million himself . Only in today's America.
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[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?

[Nebe]

Engineering a perfect trolling excercise in American Fear mongering to his advantage
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[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.

[Rockport24]

I feel like this is right of passage in the political forum to have Spence respond to a post line by line

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by spence

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.

Again, at best he pulled an old clock apart and threw away the box, Hardly engineering. And not even worth a trophy in a day when anyone can win a tropgy

[spence]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Again, at best he pulled an old clock apart and threw away the box, Hardly engineering. And not even worth a trophy in a day when anyone can win a tropgy

You're doing it again.

[Redsoxticket]

This digital clock was mounted inside of a briefcase just like a explosive briefcase.
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[spence]

Originally Posted by Redsoxticket

This digital clock was mounted inside of a briefcase just like a explosive briefcase.
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Actually it was a pencil box.

[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

[Rockport24]

here's the deal: there is a faction of muslims who want to kill us all, even apologists like you Spence! We really have no idea of knowing which of them want to kill us and which of them are peaceful people, therefore this kind of thing is the new way of life in the world. Liberals can cry racism and not like it, but as long as muslims are killing innocent people, this will be the way.

[Jim in CT]

Originally Posted by Nebe

His family is demanding 15 million dollars from the town and school department.

How blatantly obvious was this set up ? Build something that looks like a bomb.. Get chastised for it and then lawyer up...

Yep, exactly. Very carefully orchestrated. Complete with Obama invitation to White House because he's such a victim.

[JohnR]

Originally Posted by spence

You're doing it again.

Spence - You are doing it again, narrating instead of thinking.

If the kid was of mixed religion Amish and Jewish parents with a gay sperm donor, if he took parts from an old radio shack clock, remove the case they came in, and placed them in a pencil box: AT BEST, still hardly engineering.

Strip away ALL of the Social Justice Warrior Muslim Progressive Liberal Conservative RINO Facist GOP GOPe RushMotherFrieckinJoneLimbaugh and any other "label" and look at the facts of a kid that took something out of its original container and put it in a crude box and called it homemmade: you still have hardly engineering at best. Realistically - you have minor fraud/cheating/lying.

At worst, you have a whole slew of possibilities

[JohnR]

Now that I think of it - he does not have the makings of an engineer, but instead the makings of a Politician

[PaulS]

Originally Posted by Rockport24

here's the deal: there is a faction of muslims who want to kill us all, even apologists like you Spence! We really have no idea of knowing which of them want to kill us and which of them are peaceful people, therefore this kind of thing is the new way of life in the world. Liberals can cry racism and not like it, but as long as muslims are killing innocent people, this will be the way.

I can't believe how the father was smart enough to know that if he sent his son to school with a clock , people's stereotypes would kick in and automatically assume it was a bomb.

More people have been killed w/guns this year in the US than by terrorists. It sucks that you want to now lump in all the gun owners and call them all murders.

[Rockport24]

That's kind of funny because I don't have to call all gun owners murderers, the media and the anti-gun lobby as already done that!