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I'm not sure if he himself claimed he invented it, it might have just been mainstream media saying that, but his father did say that to reporters and also had inconsistencies in the story. Like saying to CNN that “it was an alarm clock that he made. He wakes up with it most mornings,” and then later saying on Dallas News he made the clock in 20 minutes the night before taking it to school.\ |
News Agencies sometimes over simplify facts to make the story simple. Honestly it doesn't really make a difference how long he had the clock if it was a day or a year.
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I didn't put much emphasis on the bomb threat because that wasn't a concern of mine, I just addressed it since it was a major part of why people have been taking sides. I myself think the school overreacted, but again, being wronged doesn't mean you deserve anything. Let alone what he got. My point wasn't that there are people who deserve reward more than him, my point was that people don't deserve rewards for being wronged. Let alone thousands of dollars worth of rewards and a free trip to the white house. Those should be things that are earned, not given to you because something bad happened to you.
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I think the gifts and other things he has gotten are ways for people show their support. They want to make it extremely vocal what happened is wrong and what he is doing (being interested in STEM) is cool. If you don't think he should have gotten I have nothing more to say.
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I feel the same way about the families of, for example, 9/11 victims' families, who were given millions of dollars of tax payer's money in return for their lost one. They didn't need, let alone deserve, that money, which could have been used for rebuilding the city or for people who DID need it. They did deserve any sort of life insurance that they may have had with that family member, but what was given to them wasn't this and was just wasteful, unfair charity.
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UNFAIR CHARITY?!?
I have literally nothing say about this except,
WOW.
9/11 victims families were people who actually needed it.
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Also, "as an anonymous account on this forum you really don't get much credit." is fallacious. Popularity=/=credibility. Additionally, I'm not anonymous. Daisies is the handle I use for everything, when it's available, and I'm not hiding my identity or location.
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So what is your name then? Are you on an FRC team or other FIRST team?