[–] GrislyAtoms 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
And it's these sorts of things that make me think that there may be more to it. There is an uncanny similarity between Ahmed's clock and the device in that shitty picture (but also to other real "briefcase bombs" I looked at pictures of), I will admit.
I honestly was not all that familiar with what a briefcase bomb looked like before all of this. After doing a bit of research, I am starting to have my doubts about the innocence of it all. It's possible he didn't realize how closely it resembled a briefcase bomb, but I have this nagging suspicion that he was fully aware, or at the very least his parents were. Even if his parents weren't in on it, did they not see the thing before he took it to school? I suppose they also may not have been too familiar with briefcase bombs, like myself, and didn't think anything of it.
But I just don't know for sure, and possibly never will. Oh well. I doubt I'll expend much more energy trying to figure it out. I have plenty of other things to worry about.
[–] Kaizervonmaanen 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago
Neither of those pictures are a bomb. One is the clock Ahmed made and the other one is a mobile button panel for a unix mainframe. (see the novell tag, that should be enough. And why would they have a solid button panel on a briefcase bomb? And there is no explosives in either of the pictures.)
[–] flimflamedthezimzam 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
But it has LEDs!!
Better lock up this l33t haxor too before he damages the nuclear codes. Have we really gone full retard where we have to explain life isn't a fucking movie.
[–] GrislyAtoms ago (edited ago)
I thought that picture was probably bullshit (I see he's changed the picture now, which used to be this), which is why I looked up my own pictures. Especially after figuring out that the source of that "bomb" picture is what appears to be a fundamentalist christian news site.
Do you have any links to pictures of other "mobile button panels for a unix mainframes", for comparison? I couldn't really find anything looking like that, but I don't really know what I'm looking for here. I, like most people here, am not familiar with these things, or the company Novell. I did wonder about the tag though. I'm not sure why I didn't just look it up.
[–] Kaizervonmaanen 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
You can see other versions here at the bottom (but closed one's): http://www.bettico.com/project-photos/ I am not sure what it's called. I have never worked with mainframes
[–] 2519533? 4 points 10 points 14 points (+14|-4) ago
I wish the following information would finally get circulated: the enclosure is not a briefcase, it's a pencil case. Look at the size of the electrical plug.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zVIc64naL.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Vaultz-Locking-Pencil-Inches-VZ01479/dp/B001BXZ28K
[–] dildonkers ago
So it was smaller. If anything that makes it more reasonable because most bombs a 14 year old could theoretically make aren't going to have a suitcase sized amount of explosives. That size of bomb is still potentially fatal for everyone in the room.
[–] iamjanesleftnipple ago
What? I would think that a 14 year old wouldn't have the sophistication to make a mini-bomb and they would absolutely have to have something bigger because they wouldn't have the equipment to scale down.
Also, if they really thought it was a bomb, why didn't they evacuate the building? Why wasn't the bomb squad called?