# RO: This is totally going to kill Bring Your Clock to School Day **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 16, 2015, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454 "2015-09-16T08:35:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 56
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1101 "2015-10-02T23:48:57Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > I think Ahmed was clearly itching to expose their bigotry, get his revenge, and get famous on the Internet. In a completely different school? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1102 "2015-10-02T23:53:46Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > Because he wanted something quick he could bring? Because he thought it was cool? Doesn’t ring as all that damning to me. I mean, if he WAS trying to fake a bomb as part of a larger hoax, why would a kid who was legitimately interested in engineering half-ass it? > > Sure. More to the point, there’s still zero evidence that the clock was intended to be mistaken as a bomb as part of a master scheme. Which would depend on something that reportedly had never happened before: getting in serious trouble for one of his gadgets. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1103 "2015-10-03T00:03:09Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Which would depend on something that reportedly had never happened before: getting in serious trouble for one of his gadgets. What depends on that? I’m saying that it sounds more plausible to me that he “made” a clock, thought it looked cool and brought it in as a clock than the idea that he planned a hoax, is interested in engineering but couldn’t give two shits about the key part to his plot. But that’s just me. No real sense in going around and around about it – in a sense, the article doesn’t give much new. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1104 "2015-10-03T00:06:09Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > – in a sense, the article doesn’t give much new. Sort of attacks the character of the boy. Which is probably the point of the story. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1105 "2015-10-03T00:14:35Z")
> [@Jophiel](#): > > What depends on that? Your last 16 words. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1106 "2015-10-03T00:20:30Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Sort of attacks the character of the boy. Which is probably the point of the story. Little something for everyone. Those “for” can point out that bringing gadgets was nothing new, those “against” can point out a disciplinary record. ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1107 "2015-10-03T04:14:28Z")
> [@SlackerInc](#): > > Easy to dismiss FOX News or WND; not so easy to dismiss the [Dallas Morning News,](http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150926-before-ahmeds-fame-fantastic-inventions-and-a-fight-with-authority.ece) which reports that Ahmed did indeed “rack up weeks of suspensions”: This is one of the most blatantly dishonest cut-and-paste selective quotes I have seen. But you knew that. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1108 "2015-10-03T07:00:06Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > This is one of the most blatantly dishonest cut-and-paste selective quotes I have seen. But you knew that. Of course he’s dishonest. He’s trolling. The real question here is: How long will the site permit him to do so? ---
**Author:** ![canned\_mayhem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@canned\_mayhem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/canned_mayhem)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1109 "2015-10-03T07:24:53Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Of course he’s dishonest. He’s trolling. The real question here is: How long will the site permit him to do so? How is that dishonest or trolling? Because it doesn’t fit your one-sided skewed opinion he should be banned? That classic liberal tolerance is glaring… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1110 "2015-10-03T09:05:37Z")
Speak of the devil… ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1111 "2015-10-03T09:27:06Z")
Missed this: > [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > That classic liberal tolerance is glaring… You think I’m liberal? You’re going to give vapors to at least half the active posters here! ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1112 "2015-10-03T12:54:39Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > My magic 8 ball says the apologists will attack the source, claim racism, blame Bush and then abandon this topic for the next scam MSNBC “discovers”. > > In 3, 2, 1… I’m unfamiliar with Mr. Mayhem. Can someone confirm that he is indeed the stark raving lunatic he appears to be? I do realize some libtard’s blame Dubya for Clinton’s Trillion-dollar War against Gog and Magog, but are there really libtards who blame Dubja (or ¿Jeb? or their Dad?) for the jihadist attack on MacArthur High School? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1113 "2015-10-03T13:12:09Z")
> [@canned\_mayhem](#): > > How is that dishonest or trolling? > > Because it doesn’t fit your one-sided skewed opinion he should be banned? > > That classic liberal tolerance is glaring… **canned mayhem** , you really needn’t bother. We can assume that your sole ‘contributions’ to any discussion on this board will forever be some unoriginal, snarky drive-by comment about ‘liberals’. Saves you some typing, and the rest of us a lot of boring reading. Or you could, you know, try actually interacting with other people. My Ghod, what am I saying? Never mind, that’s crazy talk. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1114 "2015-10-03T13:47:55Z")
> [@tomndebb](#): > > This is one of the most blatantly dishonest cut-and-paste selective quotes I have seen. But you knew that. Not at all. > [@Monty](#): > > Of course he’s dishonest. He’s trolling. The real question here is: How long will the site permit him to do so? You’re advocating that I be banned, after more than a decade here (and going back to the '90s on AOL), because I’m raising questions about a news story in a section of the board that appears to be a free fire zone? Pffffffft. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1115 "2015-10-03T13:49:13Z")
Apologies, if this has been covered already, but would like to get a clarification on couple of points. 1. Ahmed calls the process of taking a clock out of one case and putting it in another [an invention](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mW4w0Y1OXE) Ahmed is 14 years old (14, not 4). Is Ahmed a special needs child? 1. Ahmed’s “invention” consisted of taking a clock out of its housing and putting it in a new case. Ahmed is now invited to the White House, gets an MIT scholarship, and an assorted bunch of other goodies. What about the 14 year old Chinese kid who actually built the clock in question? Is he going to get invited to the White House, get MIT scholarship, etc? ---
**Author:** ![andros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e480ec/32.png) [@andros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andros)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1116 "2015-10-03T13:53:27Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > Apologies, if this has been covered already, but would like to get clarifications on couple of points. Over 1000 posts. Yeah, been covered. _Ad nauseam_. Is **Alkash** a special needs child? ---
**Author:** ![Alkash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Alkash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alkash)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1117 "2015-10-03T13:55:11Z")
> [@andros](#): > > Over 1000 posts. Yeah, been covered. _Ad nauseam_. > > Is **Alkash** a special needs child? Could you please provide a brief summary? I’m especially interested in the Chinese kid who actually built the clock. Has he been identified? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1118 "2015-10-03T14:00:06Z")
Please don’t JAQ off in public, it’s gross and this is a family friendly place. ---
**Author:** ![FXMastermind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fxmastermind/32/7289_2.png) [@FXMastermind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FXMastermind)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1119 "2015-10-03T14:48:23Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > He’s got to pretend like he’s really into case modding clocks to stay out of jail. Maybe. But if he built a remote to fuck with the teacher’s projector during class, then he has mad skillz, and might just be a brilliant manipulator of time, space and the American public. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454/1120 "2015-10-03T14:52:04Z")
> [@Alkash](#): > > Could you please provide a brief summary? I’m especially interested in the Chinese kid who actually built the clock. Has he been identified? Why does this mitigate the insane overreaction by school officials and police? In other words, “So What?” You are really grasping at straws if you think this is relevant to this story. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454.md?page=55) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ro-this-is-totally-going-to-kill-bring-your-clock-to-school-day/731454.md?page=57)