In case you didn't notice, or didn't realize, all of those parts are very big. They are scrap parts. The articles about this kid point out that his room is full of scrap parts, and chances are most of this shit was free. You need a big container to store big parts in.
That 'big metal suitcase' looks like one of the many heavy-duty CD cases I have here at my house. For holding CDs. DVDs too, I suppose. I can even see the shitty felt lining inside that catches every speck of lint in the free world. Set me back about 20 bucks when I first bought, probably 10 or so now.
Cheap. It's a cheap box with scrap parts in it that a kid used to make a clock for school.
The point is if the kid had brought in a friggin' potato with wires connecting it to a lightbulb, no one would have batted an eye because they had a basic understanding of it. (Or maybe they would have - brown skinned kid, wires... maybe a potato bomb?) But because this looked like something OUT OF A MOVIE the educators and police of Irving punished a really smart kid.
There's nothing strange about the picture release because the clock isn't really the point. A 14 year old being hauled out of school in cuffs for being smarter than the people in his town is the point. Getting labeled a troublemaker for trying to share something is the point. A kid that now realizes the town is full of racist asshats is the point.
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puddlewonderful ago
Does anyone else find it strange that the picture of the clock was released after the picture of the boy? I sense that he was put up to this because it looks like a bomb right out of a Hollywood movie. It's in a metal suitcase and has a big red face for a countdown
Sikozen ago
No, actually.
In case you didn't notice, or didn't realize, all of those parts are very big. They are scrap parts. The articles about this kid point out that his room is full of scrap parts, and chances are most of this shit was free. You need a big container to store big parts in.
That 'big metal suitcase' looks like one of the many heavy-duty CD cases I have here at my house. For holding CDs. DVDs too, I suppose. I can even see the shitty felt lining inside that catches every speck of lint in the free world. Set me back about 20 bucks when I first bought, probably 10 or so now.
Cheap. It's a cheap box with scrap parts in it that a kid used to make a clock for school.
The point is if the kid had brought in a friggin' potato with wires connecting it to a lightbulb, no one would have batted an eye because they had a basic understanding of it. (Or maybe they would have - brown skinned kid, wires... maybe a potato bomb?) But because this looked like something OUT OF A MOVIE the educators and police of Irving punished a really smart kid.
I once saw a white guy use his skateboard to launch a police car into a skyscraper in a movie. I'm not really afraid of that happening in real life because IT WAS A MOVIE. Have the Irving PD been notified? That kids with skateboards could flip their cars?
There's nothing strange about the picture release because the clock isn't really the point. A 14 year old being hauled out of school in cuffs for being smarter than the people in his town is the point. Getting labeled a troublemaker for trying to share something is the point. A kid that now realizes the town is full of racist asshats is the point.