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Ahmed The Clock Kid Suing School and Police For $15,000,000.00

posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday November 24 2015, @11:17PM   Printer-friendly
from the quit-yer-whining dept.
From the Independent:

The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the Texan schoolboy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to school, has demanded $15m in compensation and written apologies from the local mayor and police chief.

In letters sent on Monday, the lawyers said if the City of Irving and Irving School District did not agree to the apologies and compensation, they would file a civil action.

"Ahmed never threatened anyone, never caused harm to anyone, and never intended to. The only one who was hurt that day was Ahmed, and the damages he suffered were not because of oversight or incompetence," said the letter to the city authorities.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by darkfeline on Wednesday November 25 2015, @03:16AM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Wednesday November 25 2015, @03:16AM (#267848) Homepage

    Even so, I think building a computer excludes buying a prebuilt machine and swapping some RAM, and making coffee excludes buying a cup from Starbucks and transferring it to your mug.

    Building a clock, in my opinion, includes such things as assembling a Raspberry Pi, some wires, LEDs, breadboards, etc., and excludes removing a store-bought clock from its shell and transferring it to a different box.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @08:41AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 25 2015, @08:41AM (#267927)

    Building a clock, in my opinion, includes such things as assembling a Raspberry Pi

    Wait... Your definition of building a clock starts off by buying a computer, a much more complex device than does a million times the things that a clock would do...

    • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Thursday November 26 2015, @11:44PM

      by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday November 26 2015, @11:44PM (#268453) Homepage

      Yes, I think teaching a kid to program a Raspberry Pi and wire it to LEDs counts as building a clock.

      A RaspPi does not come preprogrammed to run an LED clock; it requires significant extra work. By your logic, the universe has already "built" everything in the past, present, and future, since it does infinitely more things than anything within it.

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