'Can You Prove You're Not A Potential Terrorist?'

[Josquius]

I originally read this story on the daily mash. Didn't know they also posted stupid real stories so thought it was just a joke.

[Razgovory]

Well, Scip's friends in Mississippi seem to think this is actually some sort of conspiracy by the liberal, Muslims and the President to further Islamize the US or something.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I originally read this story on the daily mash. Didn't know they also posted stupid real stories so thought it was just a joke.

I keep on telling myself that we live on a planet of more than 7 billion people and that the shitty stories rise to the top. In other words one million American kids showed off their science/electronics projects last year and nothing untoward happened, but by the rules of chance there was almost bound to be a place where the local authorities were sufficiently clueless for something as silly as this to occur. Its a bit like a lottery, because of the vast number of participants the highly unlikely happens almost every week.

[Capetan Mihali]

I wish you were around here.  No one plays spades anymore.

It's still the top game in prison, AFAIK.

[Razgovory]

Sad to see the local cops doubling down on the stupidity by saying students shouldn't bring odd looking things to school.

In the ago of zero tolerance, it ain't bad advice.

I remember when they imposed "zero tolerance" in our schools.  Not about bombs of course, but about drugs.  A kid who brought aspirin to school was to be treated the same if he brought in heroin.  I soon learned that "zero tolerance", meant that teachers didn't want to make decisions.

[Martinus]

Ok, I gotta say, having seen the clock looking like this:



The teacher may have overreacted and the kid was obviously innocent, but that does look like a bomb (or at least it does not look like a clock).

[The Brain]

Lawyer vs tech.

[Eddie Teach]

Looks more like a typewriter than anything. 

[DGuller]

I have to admit that it does look like a shit clock, so all the accolades he's getting seem a bit over the top.  I can get a far better clock for $10 at a corner store.

[dps]

I soon learned that "zero tolerance", meant that teachers didn't want to make decisions.

Bingo.

[Josquius]

A friend of mine does have a bit of a conspiracy theory going that it was pre-meditated by him/his father, knowing the stupid conservative locals would over react at a muslim with something that looks like a bomb, and knowing/hoping the inevitable media attention would lead to good things for the kid.
I'm doubtful to say the least. But it is quite a nice little theory.

[Razgovory]

A friend of mine does have a bit of a conspiracy theory going that it was pre-meditated by him/his father, knowing the stupid conservative locals would over react at a muslim with something that looks like a bomb, and knowing/hoping the inevitable media attention would lead to good things for the kid.
I'm doubtful to say the least. But it is quite a nice little theory.

Yeah, that seems to be going around in the US amongst the loonies.

[Razgovory]

Ok, I gotta say, having seen the clock looking like this:



The teacher may have overreacted and the kid was obviously innocent, but that does look like a bomb (or at least it does not look like a clock).

Looks like someone opened up a modem or something.

[The Brain]

I am the modem man.

[dps]

I am the modem man.

Kilroy!