14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School

Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by owen_griffiths on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @11:16AM (#10227216)

And those guys learning to fly the planes without the landing, why can't that just be an interest! With terrorism, if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives.

NB I totally agree it would be a douche move to charge this kid with some BS, but investigating unusual behavior is much more understandable.

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by peu4000 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:29PM (#10227806)

Right, but this is a child who is an American citizen, not a Saudi who's been in the country for a few months.

I mean, I can't imagine what kind of monster automatically jumps to bomb when a kid makes a clock. Is that how we want to live, constantly being suspicious of everyone different?

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by bosdev on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:21PM (#10227729)

It seems pretty logical to me that we would treat people who want to learn to fly without landing differently than a teenager who builds a clock.

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by kjdal2001 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @12:21PM (#10227723)

Clock ownership and general interest in technology are neither suspicious nor unusual behaviors.

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by leohutson on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:31PM (#10230701)

> if you want to avoid false negatives, you are going to have a lot of false positives.

Not necessarily, because the more people you alienate, the more enemies you create, and the more genuine threats you will face.

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