Clock Boy Ahmed had a history of pranks

The Dallas Morning News tells the story in Before Ahmed’s fame: fantastic inventions and a fight with authority. Here are a few passages:

If you want to know Ahmed Mohamed — not the hoax bomb suspect or the vindicated celebrity, but the motormouth kid with a schoolbag full of inventions and a head full of questions — ask a teacher.

Ask at Sam Houston Middle School, where the boy from Sudan mastered electronics and English, once built a remote control to prank the classroom projector and bragged of reciting his First Amendment rights in the principal’s office.

It’s also the school where Ahmed racked up weeks of suspensions, became convinced an administrator had it in for him and — before he left for the high school where he turned famous — prompted Irving ISD to review claims of anti-Muslim bullying.

Seems there was also a lefty teacher at Sam Houston who had significant influence on him.

In any event, the sympathy Ahmed Mohamed got from his clock-in-a-box stunt just shows how politically correct President Obama and many others in the country have become on the whole "Islamophobia" thing.

Also in the news: Clock boy lawyers up.

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I did read that he didn't even build the device which did look like a bomb. His history of pranks along with his Dad's radical history would suggest it could have been a bomb. The PC Police immediately take the side of Clock Boy over any rational person. I enjoy your website!