I hope this incident does not serve as a deterrent against our police and school personnel from maintaining the safety and security of our schools.

Translation: Don’t let this little setback make you afraid to fuck up and make us look foolish again!

Now you can get back to juggling your alleged support of copyright with outright support of mega-pirate greasy blob Kim Dotcom.

And get hot on the Author’s Guild! Now they’re claiming losing income! Weigh in with your fact-less self-styled “authority” against those having mere real data!

Attempt #8. Masnick can’t keep me out (yet won’t take responsibility to delete comments once get in), so the censor — I mean “report” button is the last weapon. Use it, kids!

So they stole his stuff, kidnapped him, and recorded and stored his biometric information all for a threat that never existed? The taxpayers are going to be footing the bill for a big settlement in the future. Will the officers be held accountable for this boys suffering and waste of money and resources? I doubt it.

If Ahmed, or his parents, are at all politically aware, they might tell Mr. Obama to stuff his invitation due to his administration fostering the terror being imposed on the populace by the government making everything about terrorism, even when it isn’t.

Of course, now the Irving Police Dept will be charging Ahmed with material support for ISIS terrorists because his sister created a Twitter account for him during this whole ordeal. They need to determine if his intent was to use it to recruit for ISIS. Hopefully, this is just another naive set of circumstances where Ahmed did not recognize the suspicious nature of creating a social media account to spread knowledge of how to make a clock/timer/”looks like a bomb to me” in school.

We all need to be careful in these dangerous times, don’t cha know.

Amazing points:
1. Police think things like this (science projects) don’t belong in a school. Too funny.
2. Police admitting they would have behaved the same (aka just as stupidly) if a “white student” had brought a clock to school. OMG!
(And, frankly, I’ve never heard the term “Hoax Bomb”–capitalized no less–before. Is that a thing?)

Hopefully if somebody brings some contraption contained in a pressure cooker we WILL go through this again.

on the wrists of the teachers yet none of them have been detained.. wait those are just watches……..

To take an obvious point, bombs do not blink lights, and they do not beep. That is a literary convention of bad Hollywood science fiction movies. The “property language” of bad science fiction movies is as hyper-style-ized as the body language of ballet. In ballet, if you want to express menacing rampant sexuality, the barbarians are going to come and rape you, that kind of thing, you do a move like lifting weights, only with your legs turned out, to the accompaniment of pounding music, eg. the Moor in the Nutcracker Suite. Star Trek managed to get away from all that kind of stuff, to a degree, because Gene Roddenberry called in his favors, and got some introductions to real scientists, notably Harvey Lynn of Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who could tell him when he was talking BS.

Of course these conventions can be burlesqued, turned on their heads, made fun of. A really cute little ballerina can dance the Moor part, perhaps wearing a fake dongle two feet long. Similarly, Jane Fonda did something like that with the mechanical monsters in Barbarella. “You shameless girl, you broke the sexual-torture machine I was using on you!” says the mad scientist, as Fonda looks at him with a gently pitying expression, intimating that it was fun while it lasted, and no hard feelings that the machine just couldn’t stand up to her level of play.

The same kind of police officer who panics about blinking lights will probably shoot a little girl in a witch costume on Halloween night, because he is convinced that she really is a witch, and he is superstitious like an ignorant medieval peasant, and is terrified of witches.

The kind of cop whose “education” consist more or less entirely of watching re-runs on television is likely to be sort of primitive. It is sad that the teachers in Irving, Texas, schools are equally stupid. Obviously, an Irving high school diploma is not worth the paper it is printed on, and people who graduate from Irving cannot expect to go to a real university.

Did I spell that right?

I don’t blame the school system for being cautious, but ANY IDIOT, should be intelligent enough to see/discover. Hummm, maybe this is a clock just like my student says, like “WHERE.s THE EXPLOSIVE AGENT” for this bomb. Nothing that looks like an explosive agent, maybe, just must maybe it is a CLOCK. Cindy Lew HOO…