Jeff, that is exactly the problem I have with the incident... none of the adult educators and administrators who saw the device was savvy enough to realize that this was merely a commercial clock partly disassembled and placed in a high-tech-looking briefcase. It's fairly obvious from the photo that there is no significant quantity of any commonly-available explosive present.
However, Ahmed and his parents should have realized two things: 1. Even ignoring the race/ethnicity issue, the combination of endemic ignorance and Hollywood influence make installing any kind of clock into a briefcase, or putting one into a somewhat home-made-looking semi-disassembled state with electronic components, a very poor choice for show-and-tell in the current world climate of terrorism. 2. All else aside, the condition of the device should rightly be regarded as dangerous (line cord connection with no entry hole or bushing, chunky tape-wrapped splice, loose components dangling by their wires and easily moving about including the heavy, sharp-edged and and conductive power transformer, etc.) Also, what's the extraneous knotted black wire running through the latch on the outside of the case for? It could easily be misconstrued as a tamper-trigger or dead man switch. On Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at 9:36:49 AM UTC-7, Jeff Walton wrote: > > Way too much speculation here... > > People sometimes fear what they don't understand. > > Jeff > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to neonixie-l+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send an email to neonixie-l@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/e26aafad-e59e-4da4-bd32-dc5933a6fbeb%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
