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Old 09-19-2015, 10:27 AM   #1
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I'd point out that he was describing past events after having been arrested. So he knows there was HUGE suspicion surrounding him. He's trying to paint himself in the best light, as we all do.
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Old 09-19-2015, 10:39 AM   #2
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(the above was edited - i didn't realize it took me 10 minutes)
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Old 09-19-2015, 11:05 AM   #3
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Arrest and suspension are way overboard.
Oh, absolutely. The school should have realized that you don't play chicken with a teenager, because doubling-down is all most kids know how to do, whether out of panic or defiance or both. It's possible the school felt their hands were tied because of a shitty zero-tolerance policy, but still, they should have known how to quietly let this thing go.
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Old 09-19-2015, 11:13 AM   #4
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My brother did a very similar thing with his physics teacher in HS.
The teacher had mentioned that he couldn't hear high pitched sounds. So my brother made a little box that emmitted a faily loud buzzing noise at a high pitch, and was setting it off during class.

The teacher didn't hear it, but the other students did. Some thought it was funny, and some thought it was stupid and annoying. It caused a disruption, so my brother turned it off. But the teacher knew something was going on. My brother got mildy scolded, but nobody called the police. He wasn't arrested and suspended.
Yeah, we had several instances of the "too high-pitched for adults to hear" prank. We also had a kid who figured out what kind of universal remote worked with the TVs in the school classrooms, and he would turn them on randomly from his backpack whenever it suited him.

When I was in 8th grade, I read the entirety of Johnny Tremain upside-down just to piss off a teacher. I told him that I had a rare form of dyslexia where instead of being flipped left-to-right, letters were flipped top-to-bottom, and that if he tried to make me read it right side up he was discriminating against my disability.
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Old 09-19-2015, 12:51 PM   #5
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When I was in 8th grade, I read the entirety of Johnny Tremain upside-down just to piss off a teacher. I told him that I had a rare form of dyslexia where instead of being flipped left-to-right, letters were flipped top-to-bottom, and that if he tried to make me read it right side up he was discriminating against my disability.
Oh, he loved you, I'm sure. LOL
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Old 09-20-2015, 09:59 PM   #6
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I would want EVERY SINGLE TEACHER in EVERY situation to report this and for it to be addressed. When etc etc the knew it wasn't a bomb, I don't know. What to do from there ... something different, but we have these zero-tolerance policies and they dictate what must be done.
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Old 09-20-2015, 10:14 PM   #7
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I'll just dump all these here. I call bullshit on the whole thing. Something doesn't add up right.
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Old 09-21-2015, 09:12 AM   #8
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Times have changed. When I was in junior high, my woodshop teacher helped me build a working replica medieval crossbow. In New York state. Where crossbows were illegal at the time.
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Old 09-21-2015, 09:30 AM   #9
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Only on TV do bombs have visual timers and beep. Real bombs don't waste time doing something so useless. How many adults cannot even understand that simplistic concept? How many adults know it is a bomb when nothing of bomb size and potential even exists in it? The teacher panicked due to ignorance and emotion. How long did it take for someone to finally act like an adult - and think?
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Old 09-21-2015, 09:53 AM   #10
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I'm not saying what happened was right. But the child was accused of a bomb hoax, not of making a bomb.
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Old 09-21-2015, 04:13 PM   #11
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But the child was accused of a bomb hoax, not of making a bomb.
Throw some wires and electronic parts in a box. That is a bomb or a hoax? Hoax was the ability of an adult (and her peers) to think like an adult. She made other involved adult (and police) into national jokes.

Nothing was right or wrong. Pathetic were so many adults who failed to think like adults. The kid remained suspended from school because a teacher and administration could not admit their ignorance and public humiliation? Who was the child here?
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Old 09-29-2015, 03:38 PM   #12
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Somewhat interesting article about the boy, talking to a former teacher.

There's enough ammo in here to support any position you have on the boy.
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Old 10-22-2015, 08:25 AM   #13
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And the kid is moving to Qatar.

The backwards-ass authoritarian country offered him a full scholarship. So his family is moving there soon. WTF?

Interesting also how there weren't any pictures of him meeting with Obama splashed all over the media. They kept that meeting on the down low.
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Old 10-22-2015, 01:06 PM   #14
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And the kid is moving to Qatar.
The backwards-ass authoritarian country offered him a full scholarship.
So his family is moving there soon. WTF?
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Hmmm.... Authoritarian, yes. Different religion, yes.
But, if I lived in a place where my kid was treated that way by the local officials
and community, I'd seriously think about moving out too.

from Wikipedia:

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Qatar is a high income economy backed by the world's third largest natural gas reserves and oil reserves.[20]
The country has the highest per capita income in the world. Qatar is an influential player in the Arab world,
supporting several rebel groups during the Arab Spring both financially and through
its globally expanding media group, Al Jazeera Media Network
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Qatar will host the 2022 FIFA World Cup, becoming the first Arab country to do so
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For its size, Qatar wields disproportionate influence in the world, and has been identified as a middle power.[25][26]
See also: Wiki: Qatar Foundation

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Old 09-21-2015, 10:57 AM   #15
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Except he never hoaxed anyone either.

It wasn't a bomb, and never said it was, and when they described things he could have done to make it seem like a bomb, they were things he hadn't done.
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