RE: 14 y/o Muslim student arrested for bringing "bomb" to school[It was a Cl...
September 19, 2015 at 11:07 am
(September 19, 2015 at 12:45 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: If he'd brought in a bomb-looking device... orrrr if he hadn't built a working clock that he wanted to show off in the first place.
Ask him!
They claim they thought it was a "hoax bomb". Why? Was he not sitting there, going, "Hey no it's a clock. See? It tells time. I made it."?
That means they sat in a room with the device, knowing it was not an explosive, and refused to believe him that he had built a clock, himself. They sat there with him in the room and called the police on him because they just couldn't believe a little brown Muslim had done something smarter than their own capacities.
A hoax bomb, like a real bomb, needs something that is supposed to be the explosive part. Electronics are not bombs. They can be used as a part of a bomb, but not being explosives, they cannot be a bomb on their own. Anyone with even a basic understanding of electronics knows that electronics are not bombs. So even if you have no clue what some circuit board does, you can know that it is not, by itself, a bomb.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
