Purely out of curiosity...

[Mark Thibodeau]

Well, the fact that the family employed an out of town ambulance chaser who
will only get paid if the family sees cash (and the ridiculousness of the
documents he filed) kind of tells me that arcane legal mumbo-jumbo has less
to do with it than a chance at a big payday. But for me, what makes it
obviously a hoax is that the kid didn't make the clock. He just dumped the
guts of a clock into a briefcase-shaped pencil box. So if it wasn't an
invention, he didn't have any real reason to bring it to school to show
off. There's more, but that was the turning point for me. He said he
brought it to show off what he'd "invented". He didn't invent shit. And he
KNEW it looked suspicious (said so in an interview before his big sister
forbade him from doing any more interviews without her feeding him lines,
and only over the phone).



On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 5:57 AM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:

> As someone who works in the media I'd suggest you don't trust the
> reporting on this story too much. Compare: that big recent shaming of
> the "world's worst aunt" who sued her pre-teen nephew for $127,000
> after he hugged her and she fell over and broke her wrist. The real
> story there was about US healthcare and the fact that she couldn't
> receive any support unless she sued him, which she didn't want to do
> (apparently, allegedly, etcly).
>
> IMHO you don't go for $15 million damages because you've suffered $15
> million worth of damage. You go for it because of complicated and
> arcane legal counsel that is WAY too boring for journalists to dig
> into when they could just go for the easy clickbait instead.
> Seriously, which story are you going to read?
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:38 PM, Jemmy Bloocher <jbloocher at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I certainly don't anymore. Even if he had been grievously maligned, $15
> > million is a pretty obscene expectation.
> >
> > On 11 Dec 2015 10:29, "Mark Kohut" <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> He doesn't deserve fiteen million dollars and won't get it. I' m glad he
> >> is moving happily enough.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >> > On Dec 11, 2015, at 5:12 AM, Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> > ...does anybody on the P-List still think Ahmed the Clock Boy is a
> >> > totally innocent victim of brutally racist teachers who deserves 15
> million
> >> > dollars for the torture of being kept from his mommy and daddy for 85
> >> > minutes?
> >> >
> >> > Just curious if any of my fellow Pynchon fans are as disturbed by the
> >> > cult-like, knee-jerk, quasi-Pavlovian, ignore-all-contrary-evidence,
> Social
> >> > Justice Warrior conga line that has emerged on this topic.
> >> >
> >> > Seems to me a lot of my leftier-than-thou friends are acting like Fox
> >> > News conservatives, only in the ideological equivalent of
> photo-negative...
> >> > I mean, I count myself as a proud liberal, but I have to draw the
> line at
> >> > fucking lying to myself.
> >> >
> >> > Mark T.
> >> -
> >> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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