I'm pretty sure you weren't typical... but I'm equally sure I wouldn't have thought that clock thing was any great achievement at 14, I could see myself building something like that when I was about 7. It looks to me exactly like what a kid would build if he wanted to make a fake bomb to get some attention...
On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > Perhaps I was not typical, but by 14 I was making my own printed circuit > boards with a sharpie and ferric chloride. Also made my own gunpowder, > attempted to make nitro cellulose and mercury azide. (It was lucky that > the latter failed). I was also having a decent amount of romantic > success. Had a car and a restricted license to drive to and from school > (which I defined as any location where I might learn something). I was > also an apprentice in a machine shop and had a certificate from the > steamfitters union as a welder. Made excellent acetylene bombs. > > Philo Farnsworth invented electronic scanning for TV at this age. > > When my mom was 14 she had been out on her own for a year. > > Joan of Arc was 15 I think when she lead an army. Alexander the Great was > young. > Lots of young people do great things. > > So, this 14 year old... > Was he naive enough to think he had actually "made" something? Is he just > simple? > Or was he trying to do a PR stunt? > > Are 14 year olds these days really that clueless? > > > -----Original Message----- From: Mark - Myakka Technologies > Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 8:19 PM > To: That One Guy /sarcasm > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Hmmmm > > > Kid = 14 year old kid - they do dumb stuff > > English Teacher = cave man - doesn't understand electronics, is very > concerned > needs to consult with the elders > > Principle = 1/2 douche - I can understand him calling the cops to > cover his ass. > > Engineering Teacher = full douche with no balls. Were the hell was > this guy. He was most likely the only one in the school that could > translate between what the kid did and dumb it down enough for > everyone to understand. > > Police - 50% douche / 50% caveman. What is this > foreign wizard technology. I think I saw one of these on TV once, must > be a bomb. Burn him! > > Every adult in the room with the kid as a group - 150% douche - At > what point in time did it become acceptable to bully and threaten a 14 > year old kid. We have 5 - 7 adult authority figures in a room with a 14 > year old kid. The best they could come up with is to slap him in hand > > cuffs and drag him to jail. BTW - lets make sure we do it when all > the other kids are in the hall. WTF - why weren't his parents called to > the school? Don't give me the crap that they really thought it was a > bomb. If they thought it was a bomb, the bomb squad would have been > there and the school would have been evacuated. > > Police chief - Almost acted normal. Came out fairly quick that there > was nothing to see here, so just keep moving on. He dropped the > charges real quick. Guess he didn't want anything to do with this > circus. > > School system - 100% douche - how to you give a kid suspension for not > doing anything. He didn't build a bomb. He didn't pretend it was a > bomb. He never mentioned the bomb word. When asked he showed the > teacher the clock. He wasn't trying to hide anything. What exactly > did he get suspended for? > > Father - not sure where to put him, seems to have a chip on his > shoulder. > > > At the end of the day it does matter what this kid brought to school. > It doesn't matter that he is Muslim, Jewish, Mormon or Christian. He > did nothing wrong. He answered the questions truthfully, he never > threatened anyone, and he never tried to hide anything. The adults in > this story FAILED. At any given point in time we had 7-8 adults at > the school trying to figure out what happen. As usual now a days they > over reacted and common sense what thrown into the void. This should > have never been a news story. It should have never left the school. > > Parents should have been called. Maybe one police officer should have > shown up. A rational discussion of what happen should have taken > place. Kid should have been advised to clear all future > experiments/inventions with engineering teacher. Maybe all future > engineering projects should stay in the engineering lab until after > school. Kid should have been sent back to class, parents back to > work, police back to speed traps, and principal back to whatever > principles do now a days. > > I only have 3 more years left of dealing with public schools. It is > sad I'm counting the days that my children go off to college. > > > -- > Best regards, > Mark mailto:[email protected] > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.MyakkaTech.com > > Proud Sponsor of the Myakka City Relay For Life > http://www.RelayForLife.org/MyakkaCityFL > > Please Donate at Please Donate at http://www.myakkatech.com/RFL.html > ------ > > Tuesday, September 22, 2015, 8:31:57 PM, you wrote: > > TOGs> realistically how does anyone here or most anyone in the > TOGs> non jihad world even know what a bomb in a briefcase looks like, > TOGs> beyond what is on tv. The kid is a douche, his dad is a douche, > TOGs> whoever escalated it to an arrest is a douche, whoever reported > TOGs> it is a solid citizen, better to report and be wrong than scrape > TOGs> kids off walls. the president is a douche for inviting him to > TOGs> the white house before ensuring it wasn't a stunt. > TOGs> He will get 15 minutes, and a ton of free loot (look at > TOGs> the Microsoft care package) his dad will further his agenda, and > TOGs> some new travesty will pop up. > TOGs> the only thing that changed is his ability to fly > TOGs> unmolested, he made the top ten on the no fly lists I bet. > TOGs> He better hope he didn't social media it up about his > TOGs> plans for this stunt, he will have royally fucked his life up if > TOGs> he did. > > > > > TOGs> I wonder if he was planning on adding batteries to make it a > portable alarm clock > > > TOGs> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 6:02 PM, - - > TOGs> <[email protected]> wrote: > TOGs> Bombs in briefcases are something from a bad action movie... > > > > > On September 22, 2015 at 3:53 PM George Skorup <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> I don't doubt there was prejudice based only on his name, but you know >>> what I think of when I see a clock in a briefcase? A damn bomb! What he >>> did was as dumb as painting over or taking the orange muzzle piece off >>> of a water gun and then running around town with it. You're gonna get >>> shot by the cops, dumb ass. >>> >>> Maybe that's un-PC of me. I don't give a shit. >>> >>> On 9/22/2015 5:34 PM, Sean Heskett wrote: >>> > I saw a teevee interview with the kid and honestly he seemed like the >>> > super nerdy kid (like myself) who would disassemble stuff and >>> > reassemble it to make it better or "more cool".ￜ He really did not >>> > seem provocative or anything.ￜ He was super excited to show off his >>> > "invention".ￜ Granted to us "expert" adults his invention seems like >>> > just a repackaging but give the kid a break, he's 14 and has probably >>> > just learned about electronics and such.ￜ That was my take on the >>> > revere engineering article and the news interview. >>> > >>> > 2 cents >>> > >>> > -Sean >>> > >>> > On Tuesday, September 22, 2015, Chuck McCown <[email protected] >>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> > >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜThat reverse engineering article lead me to wonder if the >>> kid >was >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜtrying to be provocative. >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*From:* Bill Prince >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*Sent:* Tuesday, September 22, 2015 4:17 PM >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*To:* [email protected] >>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','[email protected]');> >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Hmmmm >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜHmmm indeed. >>> > >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜWhen I saw that (maybe 2 seconds of viewing time) on the >>> >evening >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜnews, I came away with two things. One, where's the alleged >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜexplosive? and Two, that's not even a MacGiver'ed clock, it's >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜmerely a commercial "clock" that's been partially >>> >disassembled. >>> > >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜMy conclusion? The teacher and the police are idiots. >>> > >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜbp >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜ<part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> >>> > >>> >ￜ ￜ ￜOn 9/22/2015 2:00 PM, Chuck McCown wrote: >>> >> >>> >>ￜ ￜ >>> >>> http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engineering-ahmed-mohameds-clock-and-ourselves/ >>> > >>> >>> > > > > > > > > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > >
