[Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock

[Salvador Garcia]

The problem is, what is "potentially dangerous"?


Maybe this?


http://www.makershed.com/products/defusable-alarm-clock-kit


Maybe crossing the street?


What are students to do? Maybe stick with making soda volcanoes.


What happened to us you ask? Arrogance. That's what. Now we see everything through paranoid eyes, thinking that everyone is trying to get us. Gone are the days of kids having a lemonade stand or students crafting electronic devices.


I just saw the pics of he RGB2VGA converter... that is one suspicious looking circuit. Surely I'll get sent to Guantanamo if TSA finds it in my carry on luggage.


Salvador




-----Original Message-----
From: camillus1 <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com>
To: Raymond Jett via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wed, Sep 16, 2015 12:24 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock


Paranoia is the problem. Can't afford anymore to not act on anything that
is potentially dangerous.


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On
9/16/2015 12:05:30 PM, George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com> wrote:
On 9/16/2015
10:36 AM, K. Pruitt wrote:
> So we have kid here who is a budding electronics
wizard. He builds a
> homemade clock, takes it to school and get arrested.
>
>
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece
>
>

Times
have changed. When I was in grade school, one day I took my
rifle to school to
show it off. It was a cut down single shot .22 rifle
that was cut down to fit a
small person, such as my older brother. When
he outgrew it, I got it.
No one at
school thought anything wrong with this. However, when I got
home and Dad found
out. He told me that it was probably not a good idea
to do this. He suggested I
don't repeat this activity.
He was pretty good at seeing the future of this
country. Even what we
see now, a little more than fifty years later.
I suppose I
should get the updated clock driver for OS9, because
someone might figure the
old clock module might bring aircraft down or
shut down our power company. For
sure, I should keep quiet about it
insisting this is 1915.

George R.


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