“IRVING, Texas — Police detained a 14-year-old Muslim boy after a teacher at his North Texas high school decided that a homemade clock he proudly brought to class looked like a bomb, according to school and police officials.” — CBS News
“The boy makes his own radios, repairs his own go-kart and on Sunday spent about 20 minutes before bedtime assembling a clock using a circuit board, power supply wired to a digital display and other items, The Dallas Morning News reported. On Monday, Ahmed showed the clock to his engineering teacher and then another teacher after the clock, which was in his backpack, beeped during class. That teacher told him that it looked like a bomb, the newspaper reported. Ahmed was later pulled from class and brought before the principal and Irving police officers for questioning. The school district said in a statement that Ahmed was detained by police. Irving police spokesman James McLellan told the Morning News that police are determining whether to file a charge of making a hoax bomb.” Read the story here.
Seriously, this family has a budding genius on their hands, and should move to a state where creativity is encouraged and the school principals, teachers, and cops aren’t all a bunch of ignorant rubes. And, hey, if you live in Texas — up here in the Pacific Northwest we’re laughing at you dumb hicks. After all, we have Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Stephen Schwartz, me, my dog, and numerous other residents with IQs higher than the fools running your education system can count because they have only ten fingers. P.S., it isn’t the kid who’s making you look bad; you make yourselves look bad.
Update: President Obama has invited Ahmed to visit the White House. Read the heartwarming and uplifting story here.
Photos: The “bomb” (upper left), the alleged terrorist (lower right)