[Coco] OT - Kid gets arrested for building a clock

[James C. Hrubik]

On Sep 17, 2015, at 6:49 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 17 September 2015 11:38:31 Brian Blake wrote:
> 
>> The last thing I'll say on this subject:
>> 
>> Nobody knows the full story - only what the media reported. People are
>> demonizing the school and police for acting on something they saw
>> suspicious, and maybe 1 ot of 10 people might recognize for what it
>> was - a clock. None of us are qualified to sit in judgement of these
>> people. We are neither judge nor jury.
>> 
> OTOH, Brian, I'd say at least 1/3rd of us on this list could pronounce 
> it "just a clock, what the hell is the fuss all about anyway?" with only 
> a rather quick and cursory inspection of it.
> 
> The real problem is getting TPTB to recognize, and accept the expertise 
> carrying persons pronouncement, and then go on about their daily tasks, 
> which should not include sending out for more dirt so they can make a 
> mountain the size of K2 out of a pimple.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> -- 
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> 

Well, Sir Eugene, I would hope that more than 1/3 of the folks on this list would know what a clock looks like.  We have a general epidemic of undereducated educators in this country.  If the average age of a primary school teacher is 35, that means the average teacher has never seen a rotary phone in use.  Give a kid a yo-yo nowadays, and you could be accused of supplying a terrorist weapon to a minor.

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