I saw pictures of this so called Clock and it looked more like a suit case bomb minus the explosives.

What the heck do the terrorist do with clock timers? They use them to make terrorist bombs that are timed to explode at a certain time.

At one time I was a fire inspector and it was my job to investigate a fires origin and cause. I was trained by some very experienced fire investigators to do this job. We were trained to go in after a fire or explosion and collect evidence. One training session was to located the parts of the bomb after the trainers blew up and old automobile that was staged at an abandoned area of an old strip mine. The owner of the mine and the chief of police few to the scene in a helicopter and everyone else has to ride the school bus to the training site. I tell this story to give some back ground about myself.

When I saw the first pictures of the suit case "Clock" I said to myself. That does NOT look like a Clock to me. I think of a clock as one of those alarm clocks that I use to have. The kind that you wind up before going to bed. They were round and had mechanical springs and gears inside them. Today's clocks are digital. But I grew up in the 1950/60/70/80/90 etc. Back in those days they didn't have transistors. We had vacuum tubes that acted like Transistors.

So what was that kid really up to and what was he trying to prove? I would have been worried if I saw him bring something like that into my school or place of business. Why didn't he tell his teacher what he was doing? I know that kids do stupid things some times but in these times it's best to be prudent and not over look any thing that could potentially be used to make a timed bomb.