Let's just hope that he used the International Color Code for Bomb Wiring 
so that any erstwhile hero can easily disarm it at the last second.

Mark

On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 5:17:55 AM UTC-4, petehand wrote:
>
> Although nothing should surprise me by now about the insanity of the 
> American school system, this one touches a nerve. A kid - a young teenager 
> - made a clock of his own design, took it to school, and found himself in 
> police custody accused of making a fake terrorist bomb - a "movie bomb". 
> Maybe it wouldn't have happened if he'd used nixies instead of 7 segment 
> displays, as then the morons at his school might have asked him what it was 
> instead of instantly recognizing it as a deadly bomb like the ones they've 
> seen in Hollywood movies. Way to go, teachers, for discouraging him from 
> ever doing anything creative like that again.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mW4w0Y1OXE
>
>

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