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14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by ahmad19526 »

Go into any Electrical Engineering department at any university and you'll find plenty of students with boxes filled with circuit boards and electronics.

Everybody who's played with electronics knows that stuff is brittle and needs to be protected carefully. One wire coming loose renders your entire work obsolete and unlike software, there's no debugger to tell you where you potentially screwed up...

Racial profiling and ignorance at it's finest.

Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by radmuzom »

Cross-posting from [1]

Is there any study to ascertain how these kind of incidents affect children psychologically, the effects of which manifest only years later? (Let's assume that this boy is a gifted engineer, and this incident leaves deep psychological scars not expressed in the next few years, but eventually leads him to take up activities later in life which are harmful for American citizens)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10225962

Re: 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

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Post by ceejayoz »

mahouse wrote: post #4

Say what you will but I would be slightly concerned if Ahmed Mohamed brought this to school http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...

Would you be concerned if Bob McWhiteypants did?

edit: The now-flagged parent comment stated that concern was warranted due to the child's name.

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Post by JosephRedfern »

mahouse wrote: post #4

Say what you will but I would be slightly concerned if Ahmed Mohamed brought this to school http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dall...

Ermmm... why? Would you be "slightly concerned" if Matt Jones brought that to school? Or Alice Jackson?
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