Roylicious posted:

Except in that case that kid was just 'watch me bring some empty briefcase with wires poking out and have everyone trip out' which is basically what Wozniac did (Woz's was worse though) and he didn't actually threaten anyone with anything.

Call up a school and threaten to bomb it and see what happens to you.

Do It Once Right posted:

I demand the highest possible standards from 14 year old non-whites getting into DIY electronics. If you don't have your doctorate in electrical and mechanical engineering, just gtfo of the country. Yes, as an adult I build stupid goofy poo poo all the time, but I've earned the right to rest on my laurels. If you're not building me the next iPhone or working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, you can gently caress right off, kid.

InterFaced posted:

was this even terrorism though? Was Johnny five sentient?

Nooner posted:

muslims really like doing terrorism, has anyone else noticed that? Like whats the deal with all the terrorism??

Do It Once Right posted:

I am shocked, *Shocked* that bigots are still mad over clockboy.

Do It Once Right posted:

I demand the highest possible standards from 14 year old non-whites getting into DIY electronics. If you don't have your doctorate in electrical and mechanical engineering, just gtfo of the country. Yes, as an adult I build stupid goofy poo poo all the time, but I've earned the right to rest on my laurels. If you're not building me the next iPhone or working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, you can gently caress right off, kid.

InterFaced posted:

The kid's project was dumb, the cops were dumber. This isn't hard.

Do It Once Right posted:

I demand the highest possible standards from 14 year old non-whites getting into DIY electronics. If you don't have your doctorate in electrical and mechanical engineering, just gtfo of the country. Yes, as an adult I build stupid goofy poo poo all the time, but I've earned the right to rest on my laurels. If you're not building me the next iPhone or working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, you can gently caress right off, kid.

OMG JC a Bomb! posted:

It was a lovely project that looked and was dumb.

kindermord posted:

don't make zero tolerance school zones that require intervention by law enforcement and then get mad when the cops show up

I hate yankees posted:

this is a shameful post

can they charge the terrorist muslim lone individual not motivated by religion with the death of j5???

Do It Once Right posted:

I demand the highest possible standards from 14 year old non-whites getting into DIY electronics. If you don't have your doctorate in electrical and mechanical engineering, just gtfo of the country. Yes, as an adult I build stupid goofy poo poo all the time, but I've earned the right to rest on my laurels. If you're not building me the next iPhone or working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, you can gently caress right off, kid.

Roylicious posted:

Dunno why it's so hard to say everyone involved was dumb instead of having to defend one side or another like you personally have any stake in it.

Do It Once Right posted:

Just say "he was 14." It takes less keystrokes.


And then 4 more cops show up to intimidate a boy into confessing to a crime he didn't commit. And then 5 adults fail even at that.

reallivedinosaur posted:

because the school staff and police acted appropriately

Roylicious posted:

It made the national news somehow, so no they didn't.

Anyway this is a dumb derail. The point is that if you call in a bomb threat you're not just going to get let off with a warning.

Do It Once Right posted:

And then 4 more cops show up to intimidate a boy into confessing to a crime he didn't commit. And then 5 adults fail even at that.

reallivedinosaur posted:

"somehow".

only one side of the story is allowed to be told and that side is obviously a lie

your a dumb derail

Roylicious posted:

It made the national news somehow, so no they didn't.

Anyway this is a dumb derail. The point is that if you call in a bomb threat you're not just going to get let off with a warning.

Do It Once Right posted:

I demand the highest possible standards from 14 year old non-whites getting into DIY electronics. If you don't have your doctorate in electrical and mechanical engineering, just gtfo of the country. Yes, as an adult I build stupid goofy poo poo all the time, but I've earned the right to rest on my laurels. If you're not building me the next iPhone or working 16 hours a day in a sweatshop, you can gently caress right off, kid.

Roylicious posted:

Dunno why it's so hard to say everyone involved was dumb instead of having to defend one side or another like you personally have any stake in it.

Nooner posted:

heh get this, what if instead of the muslim kid making the clock -- HARAMBE THE GORILLA MADE IT!!!!!!

Do It Once Right posted:

It is a dumb derail, and I'm glad to see so many of the abject racists from the clockboy thread reflexively show up to peddle their awful breitbart opinions, and defend a school district that called on a retired teacher (whose only qualifications were 'I listen to Glenn Beck all the time') to examine the threat of islam in their school district.

Don't worry, she found that actually, the schools were Christian to the exclusion of all other religions, so everybody patted themselves on the back on a job well done. Not today, mohammedians.

InterFaced posted:

We all just need to lower our standards for bombs and clocks IMO.

Roylicious posted:

Do It Once Right posted:

It is a dumb derail, and I'm glad to see so many of the abject racists from the clockboy thread reflexively show up to peddle their awful breitbart opinions, and defend a school district that called on a retired teacher (whose only qualifications were 'I listen to Glenn Beck all the time') to examine the threat of islam in their school district.

Don't worry, she found that actually, the schools were Christian to the exclusion of all other religions, so everybody patted themselves on the back on a job well done. Not today, mohammedians.

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A man wielding an 11-inch meat cleaver near Pennsylvania Station and resisting police officers’ efforts to catch him on Thursday slashed an off-duty detective in the head before being shot by the police, the authorities said, in an episode that sent commuters and tourists fleeing during the evening rush.

It started when the police confronted a man who was trying to remove a “boot” device attached to a tire on his car, officials said, and escalated into a chaotic chase through Midtown Manhattan that ended with officers shooting at him 18 times.

The man, Akram Joudeh, 32, was critically injured and taken to Bellevue Hospital Center, the police said. The off-duty detective, identified by the police as Brian O’Donnell, was in serious condition. Two other officers were taken to the center with injuries that were not life-threatening.

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The episode began around 5 p.m. at West 32nd Street and Broadway when several officers responded to a report that Mr. Joudeh was trying to remove the device, Police Commissioner William J. Bratton said at a news conference on Thursday night. The police said they believed Mr. Joudeh, whose last known residence was in Queens, was living out of his car.

The chief of department, James O’Neill, said Mr. Joudeh pulled a cleaver from his waist band, threatened the officers and then fled. At one point, the chief said, the man mounted the front grille of a marked police car that had responded to the call. As officers pursued him, a uniformed sergeant “deployed a Taser, striking the suspect without apparent effect,” Chief O’Neill said.

As Mr. Joudeh ran along West 32nd Street, the off-duty detective, who was headed to Penn Station after a day in court, saw the pursuit and tried to stop him. He was struck in the head with the cleaver, “causing an approximate six-inch gash from his temple about down to his jaw,” the chief said.

Officers then fired at the man, striking him several times, the chief said.

Officials said Mr. Joudeh had several past arrests, but they would not elaborate on his criminal history. In 2010, Mr. Joudeh pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor of petit larceny and was sentenced to 90 days, according to public records. In 2009, he was charged with grand larceny and criminal possession of stolen property, but those felonies were dismissed, records show. He pleaded guilty to unauthorized use of a vehicle and was fined, but served no time.

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Asked about the possibility that the attack might have been tied to terrorism, Chief O’Neill said, “As part of our investigation, nothing’s off the table.”

The chase left commuters and tourists scurrying for cover as officers flooded the area during the start of the evening rush near a transit hub. Mr. Bratton addressed concerns that so many shots were fired in such a busy area.

“Sufficient shots were fired to deter the attack on my officers,” he said.

Richard DeWald, a nurse, said he narrowly avoided Mr. Joudeh during the pursuit. “He just seemed wild and crazy,” Mr. DeWald, 56, said. “First there was yelling, and then all I heard was the gunshots.”

Witnesses said they saw Mr. Joudeh on the corner of 32nd Street and Avenue of the Americas, clutching a large meat cleaver to his chest. They said he was silent and his face was expressionless.

“He didn’t say a word, that’s the thing,” said Jonathan Schneier, who works at a software company and watched the episode unfold from across the street.

Mr. Schneier said the officers, shouting “Drop the weapon,” pointed their guns at the man, who appeared “flustered.”

“He just looked like a crazy guy with a huge weapon,” he said. “He just literally looked like a deer in headlights.”

Mr. Schneier said the man began “sprinting as fast as he could” and was pursued by police. About 10 seconds after that, Mr. Schneier said, he heard gunshots.

“I called my girlfriend right away and told her what happened,” he added. “It’s New York. Stuff happens.”

Robert Mennella of Bridgewater, N.J., said he had left the subway station at 32nd Street and Seventh Avenue and was headed to Penn Station.

He said he saw a number of unmarked and marked police cars racing along 32nd Street when he heard gunshots.

“Everybody turned around,” he said. “Some people stood there with their phones to take pictures, and I just took off.”

He said he ran to Penn Station and saw officers from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and from New Jersey Transit running upstairs.

“I just told them ‘shots fired,’ and they started running faster,” he said.

Lina Gana, a laser technician at Cosmed Laser and Spa on Avenue of the Americas, said she heard gunshots that “sounded like a machine gun.”

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Another technician, Nailya Howe, who has worked in the area for three years and at the spa for more than a year, said she was surprised by what happened.

“I’ve never heard gunshots here before,” she said. “This is a very quiet area.”

Ms. Gana agreed. “Ten minutes before the shooting, I was walking down the street getting food for everyone,” she said. “And then this happened.”

Correction: September 15, 2016
An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of a witness. He is Jonathan Schneier, not Scheier.

Roylicious posted:

Helical Nightmares posted:

Four days ago

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/nyregion/man-shot-after-striking-off-duty-new-york-officer-with-meat-cleaver-authorities-say.html

Man Shot After Striking Off-Duty New York Detective With Meat Cleaver, Authorities Say

SEPT. 15, 2016





This needs to be looked into. How the gently caress do felonies get dismissed with no time served?

Y-Hat posted:

i only heard about that yesterday. i guess no one really bothered to make a big deal about it even though a common crime like this gets ramped up to terrorism solely by virtue of the attacker's religion