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

Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by d0ne on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:12PM (#10228169)

President Obama has extended an invite to Ahmed to show his clock off at the White House: https://twitter.com/potus/status/644193755814342656

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by onedev on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:48PM (#10228442)

Zuck also invited him to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10102373304096361

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by zappo2938 on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:31PM (#10229649)

Good luck getting the clock past the TSA.

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by NovaS1X on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @02:44PM (#10228815)

Major win. This is fantastic PR and a great response to this situation. I hope people learn from this.

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by swagswag on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:45PM (#10228416)

potus done good

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by elektromekatron on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @01:40PM (#10228380)

It's about time. (sorry)

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by muhuk on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @03:58PM (#10229394)

Shouldn't he have done proper presidenting to make sure this didn't happen? I see only PR here.

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Re:14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to S... by mbreese on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @04:35PM (#10229672)

The President doesn't control what officials in Texas do... But this is a cool move. It's PR, but it's the best kind of PR, especially from the President that called on the country to become a "nation of makers".

https://www.whitehouse.gov/nation-of-makers

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