Students Say Ahmed's Clock Looks Like Bomb

Students at George Mason University overwhelmingly thought Ahmed Mohamed’s homemade clock looked like a bomb, according to a new video published online.

Dan Joseph, with the conservative Media Research Center, visited the campus just outside D.C. and showed students a photo of the controversial clock. He then asked them what they thought it looked like.

“I’m going to show you this and you tell me what you think it is — the first thing that pops in your head,” Joseph told the students.

The results were overwhelming.

“It looks like a bomb,” one replied, with his friend agreeing.

“It looks like a bomb,” echoed another student.

“Yeah, it could be like a bomb or something,” another said.

“A bomb?” one questioned.

That answer was given by multiple other students who couldn’t help but think it looked like a bomb. Only one offered another answer, saying it resembled a lie detector.

Mohamed’s case received national attention when he was handcuffed for taking his homemade clock to school. Many suggested the student was unfairly targeted because of racial profiling. President Barack Obama, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerburg and others publicly expressed support for Mohamed.

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Looks like a bomb to me too, this is definitely a dry run to see the reaction of police.

 

Hilarious.

When the explosive experts on this campus can't figure out there is no explosive attached to the clock, how can a high school English teacher be expected to know - unless she asked the science teacher the kid had shown it to.

 

It is the same reason as in sports. On the Couch and in Arena when NFL, NBA, NHL etc. games are shown, you have about 1 million trainer and experts who see and know all better as the experts by the playground.

 

Just another in a long line of events in which the president put his foot in his mouth. The national embarrassment is almost over.

 

It's unfortunate that the kids at George Mason U feel compelled to duck and cover when they encounter a timepiece, but at least one high school English teacher might no longer have a panic attack whenever she happens upon a technological advance on the sundial.

The hysteria he was subjected to must have been traumatic for the geek, but he'll be okay.

 

Everyone thinks that thing looks suspicious and no one thinks a kid should be allowed to randomly bring things that look like that to school.

The message the left is sending to young people is that sometimes you have to lie and be totally unreasonable in order to needle and bully your opponents.

 

the picture looks like a briefcase rather then a pencil holder....remember this thing was small.....

so are they outlawing the same of that pencil holder now?




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His dad is an "activist" too, affiliated with CAIR and by extension the Muslim Brotherhood, so they knew what they were doing. Probably a dry run with the goal of making the country less willing to investigate the next Muslim student who brings a homemade electronic device to school.

 

fact: ahmed's clock is not a bomb

conclusion: those students are wrong

 

Okay, enough is enough with the bull(*)(*)(*)(*). It wasn't a "homemade clock", it was an old electronic clock the kid took apart and put inside a metal case.

The kid didn't "make" anything, he didn't invent anything, he only took parts out of something made by someone else andput them into a different container.

But I can see how the Messiah would be impressed, since it's more than he ever accomplished. (Sorry, had to get that jab in there. )

 

So how much explosive do you think could fit inside a pencil case? Where would it be hidden? The clock was disassembled and even an idiot could see there was nothing that goes boom inside.

That's why they didn't treat it like an explosive device... it's easy to see that it's just a clock.

 

Well, at least you admit it was just a clock... that's a start.

I guess you've never messed around with electronics.

 

Hardly, he is a Sufi Muslim

 

This makes no sense at all. I saw pictures and it was just a jumble of wires and printed circuit boards. If someone has said it was a bomb, it well could have been.

And maybe it's you who doesn't mess around with electronics, but I believe most bombs have a timing device. You know what a timing devise is right? Kinda like a clock.

 

Hmm... he showed a pic on a paddle of a disassembled clock. Yeah, that's legit.


Look IT'S A BOMB!!!

MOD EDIT - Rule 3

 

What is the point of taking an older style electric alarm clock's workings and putting them inside a pencil box? The claim is made he "invented" it. At that age, my peer group and I were buying Estes rocket kits and making model rockets. We made no claim to "invent" the rockets, but we did make them. It was a kit that required assembly.

Had Ahmed said I "made" the clock I might think, ok he bought a kit, assembled it and now he has a working clock. That is a legitimate hobbyist at that point.

This clock was already built and as far as we know anyway,functioning. Taking the case off and modifying the case by using the pencil case is not making anything.

Perhaps an 8 or 9 year old doing that shows curiousity and the potential to be a maker...but a 14 year old? Are people that easily impressed?

My friends and I were making our own motors from black powder, experimenting...too much fuel...the rocket would explode,..sort of dangerous when I think back on it. Anyway, I see no sign of experimenting or anything resembling a maker. It is not a tremendous leap in conjecture to think Ahmed intentionally did this to have a device that resembles a partial IED. Whether it was an actually an IED or not is irrelevant. The intent was not to show off a working clock he assembled, the intent was to show he could "make" a device that resembled an IED by taking an existing alarm clock and moving it's workings into a pencil case. His "invention" was making a "hoax" bomb in effect.

I'm not disagreeing things went a little far in the SWAT like reaction to this, but there is enough suspicion that Ahmed intended to make a device that resembled an IED. On that level, he succeeded. He made a hoax bomb by a very simple disassembly of an alarm clock.

My opinion anyway.

 

THANK (*)(*)(*)(*)ING G*D THEY ARE!!!

Oh, and a fact for you: suspicious looking packages should and are immediately reported to authorities in airports, malls and other public places. Is (*)(*)(*)(*)ing skrul any different?

 

That was pics of it after it had been disassembled.

Then why didn't they treat it like a bomb if they thought it might be a bomb?

 

What would his intentions be in showing it to everyone?

 

I wasn't there, just saw pictures of it. And yea, it was pictures of the clock AFTER the kid had took it apart and put it in a different case.

I will yield the punishment or lack of to the people who were there.

 

I don't know. He was never charged with anything....it is not far fetched for an English teacher having limited knowledge in electronics to see a device in pencil case that to her or him resembled a bomb. Whether Ahmed is Muslim, Catholic or Protestant is irrelevant to this teacher being frightened by this device because to them it looked like a potential bomb.

Ahmed was told by an Engineering teacher it looked like a bomb, don't show to anyone else....yet Ahmed insisted on showing it off.

Why?

That's the question.

Was he bragging about his remarkable invention? Perhaps...maybe someone who is new to making things might think taking apart an alarm's clock case is "making" something. We'll say Ahmed is an immature 14 year old and go with that...

or.

Ahmed is much smarter than simply a maker. He tested the limits by haphazardly putting together a device that to a non-expert might look like an IED. He did this to get a reaction...a Muslim kid wanting to stir the pot. In this instance the motive is sinister.

I don't know.

I suspect it's a combination of the two.

 

To the naysayers calling everyone stupid for even suspecting its a bomb, do us a favor and toss a bunch of wires and motherboards with some boxes and switches in a small case and walk through security at an airport and report your findings. Be sure to get your friends to record them tackling you in the Xray machine and hauling you off to a side room to be questioned. I also want to hear the audio of you calling them all STUPID for daring to think it looks like a bomb at first glance. Put your money where your mouth is or SHUT THE &^$*#*# UP!

 

Yet his classmates started a twitter feed IStandWithMohammed. Just another RW article that defends their own stupidity.

 

Attention

 

My statement stands, RWers defending stupidity. It has already been addressed regarding the airport, demonstrate how it works, the same as a laptop. The level idiocy on the Right on this issue is Biblical.