A Boy Brings a 'Homemade' Clock to School and...

Not when you watch "Hogans hero's" or 'Where Eagles Dare"

They are analog timers

I can remember old shows where there was a wire fastened to the "wind" key for the alarm on a wind up alarm clock. When the alarm went off, the key would turn, moving the wire until it touched another wire to complete the circuit. It was not as dramatic as a count down timer, and probably easier to disarm.

Sounds like something on 'Get Smart'

Shhhhhhush !!! You mustn't talk about such things unless you lower the cone of silence.

Not the cone of silence! that thing never works, even when it does work.

Unless you use the ultra-high security phrase cards along with it.

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[this] [mission] [will] [have] [you] [working] [with] [agent] [66]

[who] [is] [agent] [66] [?]

(looks at own card, turns card over, shoulders drop and eyes roll in silent groan of exasperation) [99]

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I was always waiting for one that counts up, but you still have tot have the curly wires!

My question is if he had brought a toy gun to school, would he get invited to meet with the president?
Only if he printed it on a 3D printer!

"EDIT"

But seeing as he didn't "invent" anything, he just repackaged a store bought clock I doubt that he has the smarts to print a gun!

Obama is as much the president as a squatter is in a foreclosed house.

In the local news paper, a 6 year old child had a hat on as he entered kindergarten, with toy army men with guns molded into them attached with a rubber band to the brim. He was suspended from school for a week. The school had a no tolerance policy for weapons.

And kids get suspended for bringing a 'Wonder Woman' lunch box to school, on the grounds that it is a 'violent' character. She isn't depicted as being violent on the lunchbox, and she is typically depicted as the LEAST violent of the DC heroes, often considered the pillar of Love and Compassion within the Justice League.

Zero Tolerance is one of the worst plans ever, forcing administrators to over-react unreasonably to the slightest little thing.

Perhaps we need to circulate fliers and distribute t-shirts around all these schools:

If only.............

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Part of the goal of terrorism is to disturb the daily life of people they are targeting, either through death and dismemberment, intimidation, distraction, etc.

This kid, and his family, acted in such a way that they knew would be disconcerting to the school officials. I think they acted with intentionality with the purpose of disruption and seeing what the response would be. They used their kid to do this. What kind of parent does that? Oh, the same kind of parents who put bombs on their kids to kill innocent people.

Here's a YouTube video showing how "difficult" it was for Ahmed to 'invent' his clock.

Don't blink. _{(No there are no weeping angles, for you Dr. Who fans.)}

(Hint: It took 20 seconds. If you were slow loading YouTube you missed it.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=20&v=kHk_6Vh4Qeo

And then there is...

Nope, it did not make it for the teacher to see.

I have made things that I was not aware anyone else had made, and as a kid, only cared that they worked.

For example, a reel to reel tape deck, like the schools used, with an extra tape head robbed from a cheap Japanese tape recorder, plugged into the "Professional" 500 ohm input jack. I found that placing this head downstream from the real head, would create an unholy echo and by moving the head to and away from the deck head and up and down the width of the tape, I could get some strange effects.

I also found that a speaker connected to this deck and placed in the window on Halloween, would cause calamity.

"I also found that a speaker connected to this deck and placed in the window on Halloween, would cause calamity."

That's a riot!

I did that with a large folded bass horn cabinet that I hid in the bushes and an LP of scary Halloween sounds.

It was too loud when people came to the door so I would lift the needle, hand out the candy, and return to playing as they left.

Scared this little kid when I did that. He dropped like a rock to the sidewalk screaming when the needle resumed play.

Ah, Phantom of the Opera through Voice Of The Theater!

Those little screamer goblins they sell now, miked through a healthy PA, can make even teens on their cell phones levitate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se85wOvracI

Dead Millennials.

I don't get it, no trick-or-treaters and all these bags of candy?

I'm ready for them.....

IF the kid truly did just stick a working clock into a different case, he's no inventor.

But, it does show some talent.

I think the kid should have listened to his science teacher after he showed it to him, and put the box in his backpack and taken it home.

The teacher who called the police can't be faulted for anything but ignorance.

But cuffing the kid and taking him away was a HUGE mistake.

In an old movie the bomb was a wind-up alarm clock where the clapper would strike matches that would light the fuse to the explosives.

Looks like something we would build IN electronics class IN high school.

The kid didn't BUILD anything. That's the problem.

He took a complete clock out of its original package and put it in a pencil case.

Cute, but no cigar.

I think this whole thing was BS right from the start. This is no invention and never was. It's a kid punking his teacher and school, and apparently ~90+% of the rest of the country, along with the White House, Zuckerberg, MIT, etc., and of course the mainstream media. Motivation - maybe he was just being a wiseguy kid. Or maybe one or both parents (and others) are involved (remember balloon boy a couple of years ago?) ...creating some "victimhood" for poor young Mr. Mohamed et al.

How do you think it would have gone if he had just showed up at the White House with his suitcase and asked to show the President his "cool clock?" If he does bring it to the White House, someone should ask Josh Earnest if the Secret Service is going to have a look first... and run any background checks on him and his parents. Or will he just waltz right in with it, no questions asked, since he has a Twitter invitation.

Elvis brought Nixon a personalized .45 colt.

"If it looks like a pig, smells like a pig, has a curly tail like a pig, it's a pig."

There is a trail of poor behavior and an environment that should, I repeat should, make people suspicious. The educator errored on the side of caution, what's wrong with that? Have we not heard that "it's better to be safe than sorry"?

I'm waiting for you, or someone else, to suggest that we build a fence around the USA, and make the Muslims pay for it right before we send them all home.

Of course, that's no longer an original idea.

A trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

I, for one, can't see any conspiracy here.

Good day lyn,

I'm not saying there is any kind of conspiracy here. Our kids are a result of the environment in which we raise them. The sister has also been a trouble maker and was suspended from school for questionable behavior. The statement "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" may, and probably does, apply here. I would bet the parents have a extremist mindset.

The same with my and your kids, they are a reflection of our thinking, good, bad or ugly. That's why it is incumbent upon you and I to be continually growing in character, integrity and honor.

In the close up pictures I saw on the Internet the blue wire seemed to be #24 AWG. I don't know how the teachers and police fell for it. Anyone who has ever watched TV or movies knows that the blue wire is always #18 AWG.

WOW!

I totally missed that. Nice catch!

And of course they are not wound into neat little coils!

This story rings of "Balloon Boy". Now we should just call him "Clock Boy"!

Naw, you've got to be alliterative: Clock Kid.

My apologies to the "Clock Kid"

A perfect example of what happens when people use their children to further their agenda's.

Using two tape decks we could record backwards. My roommate, a classical guitarist, would then place a piece of music backwards.We titled it "Bachwards"

We had more fun making Halloween tapes. We had a creaky rocking chair, a chain, a dinner bell, an upright bass and several of us wandering around the room making whistling, blowing, roaring noises. When we slowed this to half speed we most awesome spooky sound effects ever.

A Boy Brings a 'Homemade' Clock to School and it is found to be running backwards. The school, the clock and everyone on the face of the earth disappears.....

Couldn't we just make the president and the clock boy "GO AWAY?"

Oh, I'm all for that. And the sooner the better.

We are then left with a mess to clean up from bho's time in office. That will take years. As Albert Einstein said, "the significant issues that we deal with cannot be solved with the same level of thinking that it took to create them." When political, socialist ideologes have been put in place and are entrenched in the gov beauracratic system it is hard to get rid of them.

In high school we built a radio. A nearby electronics store had surplus radio clocks so I put one in my radio to make a clock radio. Then we installed this "panic button" feature. But since this was a vacuum tube radio it would take about a minute to warm up when it came on. If I was quick I could turn of the alarm while it was still making little blips before it became a full-on siren.

We also made what was called a capacitive relay. It would close a circuit when it sensed a body nearby. You could control the sensitivity by turning a dial. Yet they still can't get these traffic light sensors to work for bicycles.

Yet they still can't get these traffic light sensors to work for bicycles.

Because no one uses tubes anymore.

Well, that, plus the 'smart' traffic lights use inductive loops in the pavement to detect cars, and the standard for designing car-detecting, buried induction loops barely has enough sensitivity to detect a tricked-out Harley Davidson, the 'tiny rice burners' are iffy as to whether they'll register, and a carbon-fiber bicycle frame, well, that's pretty much invisible unless you add a big block of iron for the loop to detect. And adding 'dead weight' to a modern, light-weighted bike is defeating the purpose of making the bike light in the first place.

I remember a traffic signal sensor that used sound to detect, I know this because pulling up to the intersection on a motorcycle, caused pain in the right ear.

Here's an image of the remnants of an old traffic signal pressure pad. They always worked if I rode my bicycle over them. There was a modern signal that would work if I rode in the middle of the lane. It doesn't seem to work anymore. Maybe because then I was riding a steel framed bicycle with steel fenders and a heavy steel rack.

Someone suggested placing a magnet on the bottom bracket of the bike. Someone else stated that doesn't work. But what if magnets were placed under the pedals where it's closer to the ground and the motion might help. Haven't had time to experiment. Meanwhile I'll reach around the pole and push the button.