note the lack of complex bomb wiring
note the lack of any compartments for the explosive compound
note how the cops didn't treat the bomb like a bomb and didn't evacuate the school or get a bomb squad
note how the kid wasn't given access to his phone call during interrogation
nobody would be loving handicapped enough to actually make a real bomb look like a stupid hollywood bomb with a countdown on it
plus, you know,
it'd be counting down
not up
with the current and recent events it was stupid thing for the kid to do
As the old saying goes if looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. Teachers aren't expected to know what a real and fake bomb looks like. They just saw something that looked like a bomb and acted upon what they saw, not what they knew. Plus there is no standard for bombs. The bomb used in the Boston marathon for example was a modified pressure cooker in a box. Others might be a grenade or artillery shell that are detonated by a cell phone or garage door receiver. There have also been documented cases of having a fake decoy bomb placed next a real bomb. This is a serious field where information is usually limited.
As for the kid getting hand cuffed and taken off, the police have the power to fake or pretend arrest children. This is all done for shock value and their parents are notified. Basically the intent is to say "we could of have arrested you for a false bomb scare, but we didn't. So don't do it again." The whole not evacuating thing does set off alarms and flags which would lead to me suspect some issues. Sounds like their bomb response policy needs to be looked into if you ask me. Whether or not the school lied to the police afterwards and wrote it off as a prank to cover their as should be looked into as well if that was the case.
didn't the kid show the clock to his engineering teacher earlier in the day, and the engineering teacher said it was fine?
and if this was the case, then how come the office staff didn't inform all the teachers of what this engineering teacher said? Did the school just take his message and ignore it?
