On the blog of Lilysussman’s Blog, she writes about her laptop issue at the border of Israel. After searching through her luggage, toggling through her photos on her camera… they decided to “blow up her laptop”.

They indeed destroyed her laptop, with 3 mini-bombs, or they just shot it. With 3 “well aimed” shot they killed the laptop (with a . 50 caliber – it really had to die)

Now the fun part… they missed the hard disk. Luckily for the victim of course, she could recuperate all the work from the last years that she had stored.

So as long as the Israeli soldiers don’t get a training in computer technologies and shooting harddisks you could pass with luck. Otherwise buy yourself the armored Latitude E6400 XFR from Dell (extra steel plates welded on it is advised) and the Sonim XP1 to call assistance.