High school in Irving, Texas, is not Intelligence Central. And you know that because a science teacher at that school didn’t know the difference between a digital clock and a bomb.

A ninth grader with an interest in electronics made a homemade clock and brought it to school, proudly showing it to his engineering teacher who told him, “Don’t show that to anyone else.”  Apparently, time stands still in Irving, Texas, and they like it that way.

The clock’s alarm went off during another class and – ah ha – that teacher discovered the magic of time. And thought it was a bomb.

Ahmed Mohamed told the teacher it was a homemade digital clock. He kept repeating that after the police were called, interrogated him and marched him out in handcuffs in front of other students. He missed his student council meeting.

They led Ahmed into a room where four other police officers waited. He said an officer he’d never seen before leaned back in his chair and remarked: “Yup. That’s who I thought it was.”

The police claimed it looked like “a movie bomb” because everything they know about science, they learned from a Bruce Willis movie.

They’re still investigating the case, and Ahmed hasn’t been back to school. His family said the principal suspended him for three days.

Yes, suspended for being smart.  By the way, he was charged with making a fake bomb, or as it is more commonly known, not a bomb.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.