'Clock Kid' Seeks $15 Million, Gains #PRFail for First Time

He's got a face only a mother ... and a lawyer ... could love.

It was September on a nice Texas afternoon when Dallas/Fort Worth went bananas over a cute kid, a NASA t-shirt, an idiot teacher and a clock that was mistaken for a bomb. You know, an average Monday.

His name, in case you forgot — and by the look of the constant secondary headlines, you haven’t — was Ahmed Mohamed. The Irving Independent School District mistook a school project that took 10 minutes built from scrap around the house for a clandestine act of terrorism hidden in a backpack.

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