The police messed up and now the have to go back and eat humble pie.......aah and his name is Mohamed (I am sure they were happy to have nabbed a young 'terrorist' hahah). This is what happens when we let our personal biases and 'conscious' dictate.
Mya, I think it's the teachers who messed up. They should have evacuated the school. I see a bomb I tell the principal to get the kids out.
From the web .....
He always called it a clock, and nothing else. It was the teacher who said it looked like a bomb, and the police were called to investigate him (instead of letting all the teachers know and immediately evacuating the school or something). They went on to interrogate him to try and get him to cop to something, but ended up dropped the hoax bomb angle completely. Even the school said there was no cause for concern in that weak letter they sent out later on:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/281348805/parentletter-suspiciouslookingitematmacarthurThe hoax argument should have died out a while ago, but hey. Better take a magnifying glass to these circumstances to reeeeallly make sure, because briefcases (the size of a pencil case) with circuits sticking out (from a clock) is a sure sign that something crazy is afoot. You know those guys... they just love to do stuff involving bombs