Once again, narrative
So, by now, we all know of poor innocent Ahmed got arrested for taking a clock he invented to school. Of course, he didn’t invent it and merely purchased it and put it in a case. That happens to look like a fucking bomb. Well, a bomb like you would see in a movie. His father’s company is called Twin Towers as well. The entire narrative is basically wrong.
Imagine if poor innocent Ahmed tried to take that on a field-trip to the White House. Or an airport. I’m sure they’d just let him in with it, right?
I mean, check out this candle my kid “invented”:
September 21st, 2015 at 7:55 pm
The main issue I have is simple: they said they thought it was a bomb. The didn’t evacuate the school. They didn’t call in a bomb squad. They arrested him in front of everyone and brought the bomb with them. They didn’t believe it was a bomb.
September 21st, 2015 at 8:00 pm
That is also wrong.
He was arrested for a HOAX device. No one thought it was a bomb, they thought it was specifically made to LOOK like a bomb.
Which is a crime in Texas.
September 21st, 2015 at 8:14 pm
It’s a bit like the classic bully in the classroom, who cries loudly after his victim finally pokes him back. “He hit me!…WAAHHH!” Only in this case it’s “Bigot!…Islamophobe! How dare you think that something I made to look like a bomb looks like a bomb!”
September 21st, 2015 at 8:53 pm
I’m not sure, “we got outsmarted by a teenager” is a better narrative for them.
September 21st, 2015 at 9:26 pm
Got a link for the father’s company name? I’d love to club some ignorant family members with that..
September 21st, 2015 at 9:29 pm
Well he got his WH invite; wouldn’t it be great if the kid was a double double agent and the fake bomb was a ruse so when he took his fake bomb to zero for show & tell it was a real bomb?
September 22nd, 2015 at 9:46 am
No matter what intention Ahmed had in bringing his project to school, I still say the English teacher and administrators involved are idiot typical of the breed, using zero tolerance policies because they have no brains.
They were either so stupid they could not handle a 14 year old student pranking them, or so stupid they could not comprehend a home-made science project. There really isn’t any middle ground.
September 22nd, 2015 at 11:27 am
^^^^^ mikee
Say they are absolutely right. He intended for this to be a hoax bomb.
How were you all, the alleged ADULTS in the room, so damned stupid that you not only fell for it hook line and sinker, but then you lost the OBVIOUS public relations fight that came after?
“Oh, that sneaky Mike Tyson, he TRICKED me into saying something about his mother so he could punch me in the face!”
September 22nd, 2015 at 12:38 pm
I think may be wrong on this. I don’t think the kid is lying. I think it is more likely that the teacher and administration are of the same ilk as those who suspended the kid for chewing his pop-tart into the shape of a gun.
September 22nd, 2015 at 1:25 pm
This kid has a history. His dad is on a crusade to demonstrate how Islamophobic the city of Irving is. He’s pissed they wouldn’t let him run a Sharia court, and he’s been ginning up trouble ever since. He’s playing the media like a fiddle.
September 22nd, 2015 at 2:09 pm
So much hate for a 14-year-old kid is already more successful that 99% of you. /fail
September 22nd, 2015 at 2:15 pm
Hardly. I’ve actually made clocks — a microcontroller based speaker timer for a debate. 16×2 LCD panel and three lights — green, yellow and red LEDs, with nice half-ping pong ball diffusers.
Of course, mine wasn’t a safety hazard with an exposed transformer, and I actually changed something on it rather than just repackaging it.
September 22nd, 2015 at 3:39 pm
I want you all to stop for a minute and think about this: For the idea that this was a set-up to work, you have to assume that the kid and/or his father *KNEW* someone at the school would over-react and call the cops, and that the cops would over-react. It requires that no one at any point would stop and say, “Hey, nice clock, you can pick it back up at the office on your way home” and leave it at that. Or that some teacher wouldn’t just say “Turn the alarm off, please” and drop it.
In other words, you’re saying essentially that the kid and/or his father were right about the prejudice.
There is literally no way for someone to win that argument. Either it wasn’t a set-up, and the school and police over-reacted, or it was a set-up, because the kid and/or father knew the school and police would over-react.
September 22nd, 2015 at 3:43 pm
Bill: Exactly. Either you are pantywaists on the level of the the Boston Litebrite panickers, or you got outsmarted by a schoolkid.
Either way, you failed.
September 22nd, 2015 at 5:01 pm
i don’t get the outrage here – is it because he’s become a cause celebre? i admit that its a bit much, but i lean towards these adults being idiots refusing to use wisdom and discretion, so they decided to criminalize a child out of foolishness, bureaucratic risk aversion, bias, or some other stupidity.
September 23rd, 2015 at 6:44 am
It would be conspiracy nuttery 10 years ago, but there is the possibility that the parents and school conspired together, to push the narrative.
September 23rd, 2015 at 5:56 pm
First off here’s a picture of the “bomb”. Note that its a pencil case, not a hard sided briefcase as has been widely disseminated. Look at the size of the plug in the photo relative to the size of the “bomb”.
The “it was planned” crowd needs to adjust their tin foil hats. No one could have predicted the abject stupidity of the teacher, prinicipal and police. I would think that if the teacher found something that looked like a bomb and then found out it wasn’t would just leave things at that. I would also think that even if the teacher escalated that the principal would have ended things there. And then if the principal called the police, I would think the police would have better things to do than arresting someone who made a clock. This was a perfect storm of stupidity.