The 'TRUTH' will never come out, ultimately you will never find out how much of this was planned prank or a bit of a stunt. Again the problem isnt he made a clock, the problem is he made a clock that to many would have looked anything but a clock.
If he was smart enough to make it then he was smart enough to know how it looked. You are mostly looking at it through old eyes and have in a time like my dad where terrorist were softer (IRA), I mean that in the sense they didnt think self destruction was a great idea. I was born 2000, I have been brought up in a time were terrorist think nothing of flying themselves into a building or strapping bombs to themselves. Yes the danger is over hyped but my is NO ONE my age wouldnt have known that he would get attention from building it that way, for people my age we would consider how it looks. The same way I know in certain places if I dress a certain way I will get stopped and searched (dark clothes and a hoody).
I carry a briefcase at school they have many advantages, I build electronic projects for school and carry them in a briefcase. What I wouldnt do is build something like a clock and use briefcase for the project box, I know that would be asking for trouble. I built a transistor tester in a flight case (thread on here), in the end it never went to school until I was asked to bring it in, i took the diagrams and project book first. My school was impressed and asked me to bring it in, I did it that way because I KNOW turning up with a box of electronics in a case is stupidity.
So once again I say he absolutely knew he would cause a poo storm by doing this. I know a funny story about stereotypes, not that long ago if you were Black and drove a certain kind and colour of BMW car the police would stop you and search the car. There was outrage about this and the police rarely stop black drivers in black BMW's with Blacked out window's, I dont take drugs but a one or two of my friends do. There are two main guys people buy drugs from in my school, one is in town on a Monday and one on a Friday. Both are Black and both drive Black BMW's with blacked out windows, they do this because they are aware that unless they drive in a stupid manner they wont get stopped because the police are frightened of upsetting the 'Your's Sincerely outraged of Scotland'.
Not every Black person in a black BMW is a drug dealer, but I can safely say in our area every black drug dealer drives a black BMW! Funny enough the white drug dealers drive there mums ford focus when carrying drugs and use there boy racer cars when they are not, please dont assume kids arnt aware of the world and dont know how to play the advantages. The boy racer drug dealers get stopped alot because of their cars so know to be squeaky clean when they drive them, but when selling drugs no one pays any attention to them driving 'mum's car'
. Man who would of thought people my age and a bit older would be THAT smart!! Judging by some the comments on here not many.
The kid with the briefcase clock was the real life version of a
. I know I wouldnt trust that young man in the passport picture!! Looks way too much like Will Smith when he started making films
, I wouldnt trust any actor!!! How would you know if they wasnt acting lol