Purely out of curiosity...

[rbollinger at austin.rr.com]

Please cite your statute governing reassembled clock parts...


Rob Bollinger
Austin TX

---- ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Was the clock a school project? In other words, did a teacher, a club
> adviser, any adult in the school assign a project, and did the clock fit
> the assignment? Or did the young man make a clock and bring it to school?
> 
> As far as I can tell the young man did not build a clock or make a project,
> or in any way bring something to school that was part of an assignment from
> any adult in the building. It was not a project. It was not show and tell.
> It seems the student took apart a clock, re-fashioned it and put in in a
> box and brought it to school.
> 
> Why did he do this? What was his motivation?
> 
> Whatever his intentions, if he re-assembled clock parts in a box and took
> them to school, he broke the law. While 14 year old boys, and sometimes 14
> year old girls, are instructed that bringing a clock in a box, a plastic
> gun, a plastic sword, a paper bomb or dynamite  etc..., even on Halloween
> is dangerous and against the law, young people do make these kinds of
> mistakes, from time to time. Best if they make them in school as school is
> the safest place in the world for students. Obviously, doing so in the
> street may get one killed by a police officer or even a gun toting citizen.
> In a school the child, age 14, will be interrogated, handcuffed, probably,
> and asked to write a statement explaining his or her intentions and the
> police will contact the guardians and book the kid. This is the law. It
> matters not the race or religion of the child.
> 
> From time to time, a  brave administrator, more likely an experienced
> teacher will protect the child with a slap on the wrist, but the current
> mood in the country and in schools is making this a rare act of....welll
> not courage, but decency.
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 9:02 AM, The Jonathon Hunt Experience <
> newtalkingwall at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there any evidence that the kid "only" took apart a store bought clock
> > and put it back together, beyond people online pointing out that doing so
> > is a thing that people can do? Beyond that, if the child acted as
> > maliciously as Richard Dawkins and others would like to believe, this means
> > his whole plan hinged on the knowledge that his teachers and police would
> > confuse a circuit board and some wires with something that can explode. If
> > our teachers and police are this stupid (which seems to be the case, here),
> > then we are lucky in getting off with a $15 million dollar fine.
> >

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