decide to put it into a briefcase if not for the purpose of making it look like a movie bomb?
Have you ever seen a briefcase? A briefcase doesn't fit in the palm of an adults hand, and a 'movie bomb' has at least some semblance of an explosive.
police are on one hand being mocked for thinking it was a real bomb
They should be. If you're in law enforcement, you need to be able to tell the difference between an explosive and some wires, a transistor and a circuit board. The teacher's should be fired for not immediately contacting the child's parents.
[–] sreggin_llik ago
police are on one hand being mocked for thinking it was a real bomb
They should be. If you're in law enforcement, you need to be able to tell the difference between an explosive and some wires, a transistor and a circuit board.
Context matters. My statement was a summation of what others are claiming the police thought. They clearly didn't think it was a bomb, which is why they charged the guy with basically being an idiot and trying to scare people.
Why the hell else would someone disassemble a clock and, of all the alternative housings available, decide to put it into a briefcase if not for the purpose of making it look like a movie bomb?
I really hate this reasoning because some people are actually in to electronics and love taking them apart and deconstructing them to make them work in new ways. Tons of people do that sort of thing. There are tons of problems with this fishy and largely manufactured story, but that is not one of them.
[–] sreggin_llik ago
But that's the thing.... this isn't even interesting. It's a fucking clock in a pencil case. What kid would think that's fun except for the connotations attached to such devices?
[–] skippy_the_kangaroo ago
Why not.? If you think a movie prop is a real bomb then I believe you're more stupid than I thought.
[–] sreggin_llik 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Says the guy who can't even fucking read.