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kleinbl00 · 3138 days ago · link · · parent · post: I feel like by focusing so much on Ahmed Mohamed as an individual, we're distracting ourselves from the real problem at hand.
Dude. We used to stick paperclips in the outlets to make the power go out. That's what breakers do. A 9V battery in a backpack is orders of magnitude less dangerous than a cell phone in a backpack. 9Vs can get hot enough to smoke. LiPo can get hot enough to explode. Yet we put up with cell phone batteries by the dozens in every classroom. You're missing the fact that the kid brought in a project for a class, got credit for that project, and was told "don't show that to anybody" by his teacher. And then, rather than having anyone ask that teacher about the pencil case full of clock parts, the school district called in five cops. Not the bomb squad, mind you.