[Boatanchors] Electronic project gets student arrested - This young man deserves our support

[oldradio at comcast.net]

You have to read the entire story.

After taking a homemade clock to school, Irving MacArthur High student Ahmed Mohamed, 14, was taken in handcuffs to juvenile detention. Police say they may charge him with making a hoax bomb — though they acknowledge he told everyone who would listen that it’s a clock........

Irving [CA] 9th-grader arrested after taking homemade clock to school: 'So you tried to make a bomb?'

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/northwest-dallas-county/headlines/20150915-irving-ninth-grader-arrested-after-taking-homemade-clock-to-school.ece

73, John Dilks, K2TQN 
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      Former Editor Vintage Radio Column, QST 2000-2014 
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