Posted on 09/17/2015 1:10:54 PM PDT by LSUfan
The latest outrage being used to promote the false narrative about unfair treatment of Muslims is the teenager, Ahmed Mohamed, in Irving Texas arrested for bringing a homemade clock to school. If you just skimmed the surface and saw the picture of the skinny nerd in the NASA t-shirt in handcuffs it would be easy to see a problem.
And there is one, but it’s not discrimination against a Muslim kid that wouldn’t have happened to a non-Muslim. It’s nanny state, zero tolerance policies that take away the ability to apply common sense to complicated situations. In this case, whether or not to put cuffs on a 14 year old when he brings something to school that causes questions to be asked..
But as far as the other question, was the clock device he brought to school a legitimate cause for concern, the answer is an unequivocal yes. I have built and taught classes on improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and the clock he brought to school is a dead ringer for the trigger used on many of these homemade bombs.
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Yeah, I’d be much less afraid of an open carrying Texan. It’s called wisdom.
30 inch burrito?! That could be a weapon of mass destruction, to the plumbing when the kid passes it.
They are in-breeds, you know.
Yup, plain as day. This little stunt should have been obvious to anyone half paying attention to muzzie tactics. Hence the attaboy from the professional agitator-in-chief.
Yet another innocent unarmed teen victim of racial profiling...
A muslim kid with a father known for extremist actions builds a device with no external displays, plugs it in during English class, lies his smart butt off about it, then whines about how he was singled out...
What you want to bet that the Secret Service check’s it out before Obama even get’s close to it.
This was 100% a set-up: PR, compensation, recognition, a good shot at future gigs.
His dad is the smart one, and he’s an opportunist, too.
He understand Christian Americans WANT to be told how they’re bad, intolerant.
It should be all of them. All of them should be able to tell that there wasn’t anything to detonate. These teachers are almost unbelievably stupid.
Makes sense.
Try putting that through an airport screening machine and see if it gets through. Then get back to us,...
Yeah, wouldn’t a wristwatch be a little less cumbersome?
That’s exactly what I thought, where did he get the instructions from, the internet?
Just imagine if the kid had managed to sneak the device past WH security and pulled it out of a knapsack in King Barack’s presence. He would probably have been riddled with a minimum of about one hundred bullets.
Believe it or not, this really is a case intended for pencils and assorted school supplies. My kids have them. They were sold at Walmart a couple of years ago and were intended to mimick the industrial looking Pelican cases.
As an electrical engineer, I can say that this kind of contraption doesn’t particularly alarm me. I have made and worked with many such skeletal circuits. I don’t see anything there that looks like it would detonate. If he were my kid, I would be proud of him for having the initiative to create something like this on his own.
Having said that, though, the kid should not have brought it to school without prior permission. If he’s really nerdy, he might not have understood how it would be perceived, but the first teacher should have told him to have his parents come get the device and no one would have had to know about it. No talk show fodder, no invitation to the White House, just a kid and a harmless digital clock he built himself. Makes me wonder if there is more to the story. Bam-bam sure jumped on it fast enough.
You are exactly right. It’s a clock. Nothing more, nothing less.
"The thing in question was the product of Ahmed’s love of invention. He made the clock out of a metal briefcase-style box, a digital display, wires and a circuit board. It was bigger and bulkier than a typical bedside clock, with cords, screws and electrical components.""He said he took it to school on Monday to show an engineering teacher, who said it was nice but then told him he should not show the invention to other teachers. Later, Ahmed’s clock beeped during an English class, and after he revealed the device to the teacher, school officials notified the police, and Ahmed was interrogated by officers."
This is B.S., either by the NY Times or by the kid and and a high school "engineering teacher".
The photo shows a AC power plug and cord going to a transformer. The transformer is laying loose on its side in the case (a safety hazard). Normally the transformer would be used, e.g., with a bridge rectifier, to supply power. But with the 9V battery connecter seen, perhaps the transformer might just be used to supply 60 Hz (or 120 Hz rectified) signals for time pulses. In either case the clock shouldn't have "beeped" during "English class" unless he had it plugged in. Oh, and were is the speaker or beeper?
Why would the "engineering teacher" say the clock is "nice" and then warn him?
Something's fishy here, even if it's just misleading and incompetent fifth-column media reporting. And with the CAIR-propaganda and staged press conference videos hitting YouTube, this looks like someone(s), along with the Muslim teen, deliberately pulsed the system.
The small green PCB looks like the PCB layout (Figure 2) in ElecCircuit's Cheap Digital time clock with alarm circuit by LM8560, which uses a Unisonic Technologies LM8560 Alarm Clock IC.
It looks like the clock was just disassembled and put into a 5"x8" case. If that is it, then one wonders why Ahmen would plug in the power cord of the disassembled and hazardously packaged alarm clock components during English class when his Engineering teacher warn him not to show it to other teachers.
Any man's clock is any man's potential bomb trigger (if the objective is to make a time bomb).
But anyone with common sense knows that real bombs don't beep or tick or have big bright red user interfaces.
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