content: Yes, but you have to have intended to make a hoax bomb. He made a clock, and there was no charge or lead wires to a charge, making it a rather poor hoax bomb. I brought to school lots of things that that english teacher would have thought were bombs. I had computer repair/basic electronics in high skewl. Carrying around circuit boards with wiring hanging out was the norm.  Technically speaking, any device that can throw a switch based on time, or sensor data, can be used as a detonation device. Every vrc is a potential bomb. Hell, every vcr tape is a potential bomb. He took the damn thing to his engineering teacher and said it was a clock. One cannot justify arresting him with that in the record. The 'we need to vet its not a bomb'... well they did that immediately. THen they tried the hoax bomb shit... knowing he had shown it to another teacher and stated it was a clock. Only a complete and utter shithead, maybe of the vogon variety, would have arrested the kid. But its texas. They have declared war on kids and science. Toss in the racist language from the pigs and perfect stupidity. Provide a good argument that they had any reasonable suspicion that he had intended to create a fake bomb. It will need to explain why he showed his engineering teacher the device.