ahmed the clock kid...

[Phil Kangas]

conservativenewsroom.com You Won't Believe What Ahmed 'The Clock Kid' Is Demanding From This Texas City Conservative Newsroom It turns out that Ahmed 'The Clock Kid' Mohamed wasn't as innocent as the media portrayed him to be. Turns out that little Ahmed (and his attorney) are threatening the City of Irving, Texas for a lot of money - and a written apology from city officials.

The Mohamed family was so offended by the incident, they need $15 million to soothe their emotional wounds.

Here's the report from TheBlaze.com:

"The letter, obtained by Dallas Morning News reporter Avi Selk, gives city officials 60 days to 'comply' with the demands or face 'civil action addressing the causes of action and events' related to the infamous clock incident.

"The two officials being asked to publicly apologize are Irving Mayor Beth Van Duyne and Police Chief Larry Boyd. Following the publication of this article, Van Duyne first told TheBlaze that 'no one from the city has even seen the letter.

"She added, 'Apparently, it was more important to get the letter to the media first.' Roughly and hour later, the mayor confirmed the city had received the letter from the Mohamed family's attorneys."

Mohamed found international fame after he was arrested for bringing a reconstructed clock to school that teachers treated as a possible 'hoax bomb.' Mohamed's family quickly alleged anti-Muslim discrimination.

After making appearances at a number of high-profile locations, including the White House, Mohamed and his family moved to Qatar.

This incident, the meeting with Obama at the White House, and now this lawsuit, are all political correctness gone out of control. They appear to be pre-planned, with the goal of fooling enough Americans that we shouldn't be so tough on Muslims.

Do you think these incidents just happened on their own, or did they come out of the Saul Alinsky, Chicago-style politics playbook?

[trader_4]

Totally staged, I doubt it. The $15 mil lawsuit is going nowhere, unless of course the school and city's insurance carrier decides to settle it by giving them $50K or something. There ia a video in the days after where the kid laughs it off, clearly wasn't such a traumatic thing for him at the time.

On the other hand, the school and the cops did mishandle it. Hard to imagine that no one at the school could look at what was just a Radio Shack clock disassembled and put into an empty case and determine that it wasn't a bomb. All you had were electronics, nothing that could be the explosive. They could have called the kid's science teacher who already had seen it and he would have been there before the cops. Also hard to imagine the cops had to handcuff him, treat it like a bomb, etc. And if they all thought it was a bomb, why was the school not evacuated?

Then to top it all off, the kid is all over the news as being some kind of whiz kid that "built" the clock. In fact he didn't build anything. He just took the guts from an old RS clock and put it in an attaché case. So, maybe some of it was planned to create an incident. Otherwise, what's the point to putting clock guts into a briefcase?

[Tony Hwang]

It tells what kinda family they are. Retailer's nightmare is native East Indians, middle Eastern people. They try to haggle prices, likes freebies very much., etc., etc. They often cheat too.

[Tony Hwang]

I remember one Indian guy brought back a bottle of 50+ men's multi Vitamin asking for refund. Reason? he is allergic to the pills. There were less than 10 piils in the bottle. I said, "sure, you used up almost 90% of contents(90 in the bottle), so you get 10% of original price plus tax. You should bring it back as soon as you find out your allergy." They are like that.

[Kurt V. Ullman]

I'd disagree, at least within the current context of zero tolerance. If grade school kids are being expelled for chewing pop tarts into the shape of a gun, this seems like a perfectly reasonable response. In that context any way.

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[gfretwell]

I think opinion may have changed a bit when we found out this kid did not "invent" anything. He took an old clock radio apart and made the parts look like a bomb (it was actually a bomb trigger, just without the explosive). It was not as much a "mechanix illustrated" project as it was something from "inspire magazine"

[Seymore4Head]

[Gordon Shumway]

I disagree the cops mishandled it. It is always best to err on the side of caution. A couple hurt feelings vs. some possible dead bodies is no contest.

Consider the fact that the teachers and staff were probably not trained in explosives detection, it's not hard to believe they didn't know what they were looking at.

Publicity?

[trader_4]

Sorry, if you're a science teacher and you can't tell what is just obviously electronics from a RS clock from a bomb, then you shouldn't be teaching. There was nothing there that could have been the explosives, looked even remotely like explosives, etc. Apparently even the science teacher knew that, because I believe the kid had already shown it to him. He didn't freak out and call the cops. It was only later that other school officials flipped out. All I'm suggesting is that if they had just talked to the science teacher, all this could have been avoided. And if they and the cops were all so concerned that it was a real bomb, why didn't the evacuate the school?

[Seymore4Head]

No one ever thought it was a bomb. The controversy was that the kid had a hoax bomb. I am sure you know that by now.

[Gordon Shumway]

Maybe that teacher is one of the many that are incompetent and just drawing a pay check. I don't know, but it's possible.

Maybe it's more of the incompetence coming to the surface. You and I weren't there and we don't know all the facts, but obummer must have known everything to invite the little shit to the white house so he could praise him.

[Mark Storkamp]

And if he had an AC powered clock that he disassembled, why would he be allowed to keep it in his possession when he might have exposed high voltage wiring that could be dangerous in a classroom with a bunch of other kids? Wasn't the case metal, or at least parts of it? How well did he isolate the workings from coming into contact with the case? Even if it wasn't a bomb, it could be lethal.

[Wade Garrett]

Yeah, if I was the city official, I'd tell them to go to hell and let it go to trial. Can you imagine a jury of taxpayers finding in favor of such idiocy?

[Mark Storkamp]

After the 15% restocking fee, he should have owed you money.

[Tony Hwang]

They think 15 mil. is pocket money? What kinda lawyer is taking on a case like this wasting tax payer's money. Maybe it was all the kid's parents pre-planed scheme trying to become instant millionaire.

[Frank]

That's funny.

When I'm in a store where I see Indian shoppers, I know the prices are good there.

[Frank]

The kid and "obummer" should be clocked.

[Tony Hwang]

We just hoped he'd never come to our store again. Most of them are like that.

[dangerous dan]

Practice makes perfect. In a few years he'll have bomb making down to a science. That $15 million can support a lot of radical Muslims.

[trader_4]

No, I didn't know that. That makes it even dumber. Why does taking ] an old RS clock and putting it into a case constitute a hoax bomb? The kid never said it was a bomb or implied it was a bomb. I'm beginning to think he should get compensated.