Clock boy

[Maggot]

I'm beginning to think he was put up to it so people would be afraid to say a middle eastern person was doing something strange. If profiling is the only way to stop 1 death I'm all for it. Everyone is profiled no matter what its human nature that cannot be legislated. Is it the 10 million dollar legal blackmail or is it doing something that money cannot buy, fear? And fear for speaking your mind.

[HairOfTheDog]

I don't know if Ahmed Mohamed was just a geeky tech kid who inadvertently caused school staff to suspect that his clock-in-a-box engineering project was a hoax bomb, or if he was looking for attention by leading school staff to that conclusion.

Whichever the case, I don't believe he and his family could have predicted that the kid would be arrested, interrogated without his parents, booked and suspended.

In any event, Ahmed got his 15 minutes of fame when the story went viral. And, he got offers of future employment from heads of major technology companies. And, he got to travel to the White House and meet the President. And, he got a scholarship to a technical institute in Qatar where he and his family are now residing.

I don't believe that his family is deserving of the $10,000,000 payment that they are now demanding from the city of Irving, Texas nor the $5,000,000 they are now demanding from the school district. http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Muslim-...55461.html

[Maggot]

In some countries the kid would have been shot in front of the others to be made an example of. Call it a learning experience. His Father has money so its a vindictive move. Interrogated...........what, asked a few questions? Its the uproar afterwards not the actual occurrence that did the most damage.

Its really low of them at any rate.

[Duchess]

Its really low of them at any rate.

It's the American way. People sue for bullshit all the time. They'll sue for dumbass shit that they have brought upon themselves. It happens every single day across America.

[HairOfTheDog]

I understand that it was an interrogation, not a quick interview Maggot.

There were seven LEOs grilling the kid for hours and they refused his request for his parents to be present.

At any rate, we're in agreement that a $15 million payout isn't warranted, regardless of the intensity of the questioning.

[Maggot]

That payout should improve the educational system in that town. Unless they donate it back if they win I will consider it a black mark on the very thing they are trying to protest or achieve.


......Who the hell am I kidding?

[Blindgreed1]

A guy walks into a clock shop and whips his junk out and lays in on the glass case. The woman behind the case says angrily "sir, we are a CLOCK shop!" The man says "yeah I know, I want you to put two hands and a face on this for me."