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But having not gotten the actual reaction he wanted, he then showed it to his English teacher, who was the one who sent him to the principal's office.
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Actually from one of the
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He kept the clock inside his school bag in English class, but the teacher complained when the alarm beeped in the middle of a lesson. Ahmed brought his invention up to show her afterward.
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The reverse engineering article points out something very odd about the lad's Youtube interview with the Dallas Morning News. Here's the interview:
At 1:25, the kid says
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I closed it with a cable. Because I didn't want to lock it to make it seem like a threat, so I just used a simple cable. So it won't look that much suspicious.
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The reverse engineering article asks, why was he concerned about it looking suspicious? He's describing his choice while building this thing.
The danger here is that I/we parse the worlds of a 14-year-old too closely. But he is also really specific about this detail, where there is no reason to get specific. Often, when you lie, you introduce unnecessary specifics.
I also find it interesting that he is constantly doubling down on he
invented this thing. Even knowing he's in serious trouble, he never just stops and says hey I took apart a clock. I thought it would look cool with all the electronics exposed and the display mounted on the case lid.