VIDEO: Fake bomb blunder ends with White House invite for Texan schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed

A Texan high school student was arrested after authorities mistook his clock invention for a fake bomb at MacArthur high school in Irving, Texas.

VIDEO: Fake bomb blunder ends with White House invite for Texan schoolboy Ahmed Mohamed

A visit to the headmasters office followed after staff became suspicious about the students invention. The police were called and the 14-year-old was led away in handcuffs and fingerprinted in a room with five officers.

No charges have been filed but Ahmed has been suspended from school until Thursday.

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