Why was the boy from Texas arrested for bringing a clock to school?

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Ancient Hippy answered

The school thought it could possibly be a bomb.

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Walt O'Reagun
Walt O'Reagun commented
It was never treated like a bomb.

IE: the bomb squad was not called, they allowed the suspect to continue handling it, the school was not locked down or evacuated, the police loaded it in a squad car.
Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
I can only relate what I read about the story.
Deston Elite Profile
Deston Elite answered

He wasn't. The boy was arrested because somebody from the school was working with the media and they thought it would be a great headline, and get lots of attention.

He definitely wasn't arrested for bringing a bomb though. They didn't even treat it like a bomb.

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Ancient Hippy
Ancient Hippy commented
It worked. The headlines and the body of the story, in my local paper, was that it was purported to be a bomb. The school got the headlines, but we got the wrong story.

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