Teen arrested for homemade clock

By: Regina Wright ~Staff Writer~ Fourteen years old and aspiring to become an engineer, Ahmed Mohammed was arrested at his high school on Sept. 14 in Irving, Texas, for building a clock and showing it to his teacher. “I built a clock to impress my teacher, but when I showed it to her, she thought it was a threat to her,” Ahmed told CNN reporters on Wednesday afternoon. “It was really sad that she took the wrong impression of it.” Ahmed’s teacher called the police believing that the alarm clock he made out of a pencil case was actually a … Continue reading Teen arrested for homemade clock