Ahmed Mohamed, 14, arrested over clock mistaken for bomb. Reasonable precaution or massive overreaction?

No problem there, what if it was a bomb, Obama would be blaming bush as usual.
Places like Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles have teenage killers by the hundreds. Indianapolis had many 16 and under robbing CVS and Walgreens at gun point this year

Now that the smoke has cleared, more facts are emerging. Like, his sister got introuble 2 years ago for the same thing. Like how its nothing but a disasembled clock radio....like how his parents are acivists and will profit on this.... interesting.

Here is my take on the whole debacle... If this kid is as smart and the genius that he is made out to be. How could he do something so stupid. In the world that we live in, with the people all uppity and sensitive about what happens in schools. And with people who are pretty much everything anti-muslim, why would he be so stupid to bring in something that looks like a bomb or could be considered to be the makings of a bomb, TO A SCHOOL? So, my answer, he knew exactly what he was doing. What better way to get the attention he needed for himself. Look at all of the sympathy this muslim has garnered from our American people for this incident. Now, on the other hand, I disagree with how the school handled it. Not having the parents and all that legal b.s. But I in no way consider the incident to be "unplanned". Even in the press conference afterwards with the other muslim chick behind him, you can see this look of "haha, we are using freedom of religion against these idiots". I believe he planned it and it worked just the way he wanted it to getting the results he wanted. IMO

I would always air on Reasonable precaution....This being said....why didn't the boy just answer the questions? Not responding to the questions being asked would make me suspicious too.

Yes, he eventually told the whole story....but had he been up front it may not have been so severe in his treatment and the reaction of the authorities.

Was he doing a show and tell?

I didn't know there were "Engineering" teachers in that grade and for that age group!
For me it was reasonable precaution on the part of a clueless teacher who did not know. The overreaction was on the part of the Media. Or somebody with an Agenda, money and access to the Media was able to stir all the overreaction. Which of course, why not, reached the WH and POTUS who wasted no time for a PR operation or so, according to the same Media.

SrA Edward Vong
Was not there so all of us are making a LOT of assumptions and there was something people once said about people who ass u me?
From what I have heard, much could have been avoided if Ahmed had simply answered the questions of the school administration and then law enforcement. IF you are simply making a clock, why would you not answer questions...I am unaware of any thing illegal with making a clock, but it is 2015? The more the story is reported, the more questions I have, not the less.
Of course, this is no where as dangerous as eating a pop tart into the shape of a gun and is deserving of getting a chance to meet the President.

Is this a picture of his project clock?? If so, his intentions are quite clear. All I've heard is that the POTUS tweeted him very quickly and invited him to the whitehouse. Better than spending the day with the You Tube sensation, the female who takes baths with milk and cereal. Thus on the same day as Netanyahu was in Washington pleading for our help for Israel's very survival......

A kid with a middle east background and of all the things he decides to build - a bomb clock. While I think the kid is smart and rather ingenious those around him set him up. The school and parents should have checked and crossed checked this project for departure.

If this is what it actually looks like, his parents should have said something.