I was originally just ignoring this, because the level of clue was just too low, but whatever.
Friar Bijou wrote:
gbaji wrote:
It looked like a bomb. It was a device that, if found unattended, someone would reasonably mistake for a bomb. .....It was because they were aware that this same device, in a very slightly different context, could very easily (almost certainly in fact) be mistaken for a bomb.
"Left unattended" is not "a slightly different context" then "carrying it around". It is the opposite of "carrying it around".
Everything that is "left unattended" was, at some point prior to that point, "carried around". Get it? They did not know if he brought it to school intending to leave it unattended, and it was only because it started beeping in class that he was "caught" before hand. They had to make a judgement call based on what they thought his intentions were, and from all accounts, he didn't help himself when being questioned by the police. He failed to tell them why he brought the clock to school, failed to tell them that he'd already told a teacher he had it, and was "passive aggressive" to the police (their word, don't ask me precisely what that means).
So yeah. You get caught walking around school with a device in your backpack that, if left unattended would likely result in the bomb squad being called, and then are uncooperative with the administration and police, it's a good bet you're going to get arrested. Kinda like how telling a cop you don't have to show him your license (or signing a ticket) when pulled over for a broken tail light will. The peanut gallery of useful idiots jumping in and proclaiming that having a broken tail light shouldn't result in getting arrested completely misses the point. It's not what he did that brought the attention of the police, but what he did after that point.
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Maybe some ESL student can tutor you in how your native language works? Just a thought.
I'd say the same of you guys. Part of why I stopped posting in this thread is because I've explained the same thing several times, and it's like it just passes right through your brains and out the other side.