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9th Grader arrested for bringing clock to school that looks like bomb

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09-16-2015, 06:09 PM

Quote:Can you point out in the picture what makes it look like a bomb?

 

To me it looks like an LED display with four digits, and a couple of circuit boards that are obviously for driving the display, power supply and his clock circuit.  I don't see anything explosive in the picture, and it is housed in a small case.  The picture kind of makes it look like it is "brief case size", but use the plug as a reference.  It's about the size of a pack of cigarettes.

 

Full disclosure, my background is electronics and programming.
 

I'd say the size is more like half of a full-sized keyboard. Maybe the size of a shoe, and they make us take off our shoes because they might hold enough explosive to bring down an airplane. I'm still not sure why I have to take off my shoes when I go into a courthouse, it's not like the courthouse is going to plummet 35,000 feet if a shoe-sized bomb goes off.


 

In any case this is typical government in action. It at least seems more reasonable than suspending a kid for bringing a gun into school when the gun in question is the one carried by a 3" plastic army man.




                                                                          

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