- Oh the humanity!
American tourist Lily Sussman was on a trip to Jerusalem when some overzealous border security officers questioned her, decided they didn’t like her answers, and then put three bullets in her laptop. She’s been told she’ll be compensated for damage.
I went inside to check on my bag. I had left it unattended, where they instructed. It was still there so I went back outside.
Moments later a man came outside and introduced himself as the manager on duty. And then, “I’m sorry but we had to blow up your laptop. “
After much yelling, crying and frantic phone dialing (don’t be alarmed if I called you repeatedly this morning), he took me outside to see the wreckage. It turned out it hadn’t been quite blown up, but rather shot through with three bullets. We were able to extract the hard drive, seemingly unscaved [sic]. Thank goodness…
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Yeah, the front-right corner is where the hard drive is. That’s the only saving grace here. When I was hit by a car a few months ago, the very same model laptop in my backpack was pretty badly bent — but still intact and functional.
Bullets? Even the solid aluminum approach can’t do jack.
Does Apple Care cover this?
Come on, tell the truth, now: There have been times when you’ve wanted to shoot your computer too.
@2: No.
I’m not surprised. Israeli security went through ever article of clothing I brought, viewed every single digital photo I took, questioned the fiction books I had with me. Overzealous indeed, but then again we don’t have the same terrorist threats (or live in an apartheid state).
Not as dramatic, or scary, as I thought. I had imagined an Israeli border agent whipping out his gun and firing into the laptop right in front of her.
I watch too many movies.
Joe Lieberman is no longer the worst jew in the current news cycle.
Maybe she did actually mean “unscaved”
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.ph…
@7 – No Lieberman is still the worst.
These Jews just killed a laptop. Lieberman will be responsible for killing thousands of people who can’t afford proper medical care.
What, did they think her laptop had a bomb in it? Because the last time I checked, shooting a bomb was not the best way to disarm it.
And Isreal is our ally in the war on terror!!
“Security had never asked for my password. Was it my peeling Arabic stickers on the keyboard? Or something else during the questioning which set them off?
Toward the beginning of the search an officer began clicking through the photos on my camera. She froze on a picture of graffiti, which read “Fuck” scrawled next to the Jewish star of David. “Why do you have this picture?” She asked me rather aggressively. “Because I was disturbed by it too,” I answered. She didn’t press the subject but continued clicking…presumably looking at pictures from a photo exhibit about Israel’s January attack of Gaza.
Though I usually delete all my pictures when uploading, unluckily I had clicked save rather than delete when uploading this set and never got around to manually deleting on my camera. Whoops…
Among other suspicious item; an Arabic phrasebook, a journal entry that mentioned a Palestinian(yes, they even flipped through my journal), stamps from Syria, Qatar and the UAE, Palestinians in Palestine guidebook, and a map a friend had drawn with a main street in Jerusalem, the central bus station and my intended hostel. “Who are you meeting there?” They asked me.”
Whoops is right especially when you are carrying around fairly suspicious items (to Israeli security/army). Sadly, I think she will never see any kind of money for the damage done to her mac.
Don’t those idiots know they are supposed to taser it instead?
I would feel sorry for her if she could spell.
I hate it when a blog links me to another blog, which links me to _another_ blog, which in turn links me to the original story.
This article scaves me.
My last PC laptop finally got so bad that I broke it in half. It wasn’t impulsive; I just sat there for a while staring at it, and then slowly folded the thing in half the wrong way. It felt really good.