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No charges, media firestorm, yet they are holding his clock.
Are they being stupid or petty?
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Stupid or petty? Both!
If I were their lawyer, I’d sue for a lot more than just the clock.
Why on Earth are the police still holding it? Makes no sense whatsoever.
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when police mistakenly thought his clock, which he brought to school to impress his teacher, was a bomb.
No, the police never said it was a bomb. They said it was a “hoax bomb”. And that’s why they are still holding it. They dropped the charges because they said they had no evidence he was using it to cause alarm, which is what violating the Statute requires. But they have never backed off that it a “suspicious device”, so the device rightfully remains in their possession as long as they want to keep it. The police gave the kid the benefit of the doubt and called it a “naive accident”. Smart move, defuse the situation. If this family has any brains, they will do the same. It’s just an old existing clock the kid took the housing off (took off a few screws), then stuck it in a case, and cut out the case to make the numbers visible…and it was active…and the alarm went off in class.
Shoddy journalism.
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This doesn’t surprise me that they’d hold onto the clock in an attempt to look legit.
For more bat-shit crazy tea party extremism on the clock and the boy, look at this link I saw “liked” on facebook:
http://conservativetribune.com/mayor-bomb-clock-kid-town/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=TPNNPages&utm_content=2015-09-23
Willfully ignorant, brain damaged neanderthals that I would laugh and scoff at if they weren’t actively creating a worse world around me. I loath these people.
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Both. They don’t want to give it back, I imagine, because he could then release images of it, actually show it to members of the media, and we could see just how stupid and petty it was to have ever considered this a bomb, hoax or otherwise.
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They are Texans! What else would you expect?
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Except that the kid never claimed it was anything other than a clock.
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Yes.
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Ed Zachary!
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But it is still NOT A BOMB and the kid is NOT CHARGED so…why continue to hold the clock as if the kid is some sort of criminal? He isn’t. The clock isn’t a frigging anything but a clock. Should we all submit all of our digital clocks to the cops as potential arming devices and therefore hoax bombs?
This has descended into the realm of the ABSURD.
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“Ahmed Mohamed’s Family Hires Lawyers To Get His Clock Back From Police.”
Too bad it was only a clock.
Had it been an actual weapon, the NRA would sue, Oath Keepers would march, and Chuck Heston would rise from the dead.
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Ahmed and his two siblings were also removed from the district and homeschooled, “because of religious persecution,” the statement said, according to NBC.
Ok, all you bakers out there and county clerks who don’t want to do your job…this is what religious persecution really looks like. Got it??
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And Ahmed would get his dastardly, dangerous, and overly clever arming device back.
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Yes.
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Wait…shouldn’t there be some more stuff in between those two sentences? Like something to tie the “that’s why” to?
If it was really considered a “hoax bomb” then he should have been charged with something. Oh, right…it was the educators who thought it was a bomb!
I see we’re already busily rewriting history. That didn’t take long!
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Excellent description.
This has descended into the realm of the ABSURD.
I’d say this thing started in the realm of the absurd. It has descended quite a ways from there.
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Too bad it was only a clock. Had it been an actual weapon, the NRA would sue, Oath Keepers would march, and Chuck Heston would rise from the dead.
Except not fer one a them scary Moose Limbs.
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