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Macbook Saves Man's Life During Fort Lauderdale Airport Shooting (chron.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the backpack-took-a-bullet dept.

A 37-year-old credits his MacBook Pro laptop with saving his life during a shooting at the baggage claim of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. An anonymous reader quotes WPLG Miami: He placed it in his backpack, but didn't think of it when he felt an impact on his back during the shooting... When the bloodshed was over, he said he went to the men's restroom and saw a bullet hole on the laptop. He gave it to FBI agents. And he was in shock when they found a 9 mm bullet in his backpack. That was when he realized a gunman aimed to kill him, but the laptop took the bullet for him. "If I didn't have that backpack on, the bullet would have shot me between the shoulders," Frappier said.

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  1. Old MBP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing he didn't have the new MBP - would have been too thin to stop the bullet...

    1. Re:Old MBP by starless · · Score: 5, Funny

      and it's storage would of been harder to get back / have to pay apple shop pricing to use the there recovery cable.

      Just wondering if you're trying to get the largest number of grammatical/word usage errors in a single sentence possible...?

    2. Re:Old MBP by jblues · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, there would have been no physical escape with the new MacBook Pro.

      --
      If it acquires resources on instantiation like a duck, then its a shared_ptr<Duck>
  2. tldr by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    For those that didn't read the article or summary, apparently the gunman hated the new MacBook Pro so much that he shot that instead of the man.

    1. Re:tldr by ChunderDownunder · · Score: 3, Funny

      But what brand of backpack was it?

      The San Bernadino gunman had an iPhone. The Fort Lauderdale rampage was foiled by Macbook. Coincidence? I think Apple are taking this product placement thing too far.

      OTOH, I should be safe from a gun-related homicide with my 4 year old LG phone and 8 year old Toshiba laptop.

  3. Lost equipment paperwork by magarity · · Score: 3, Funny

    Now his nightmare begins; trying to get a replacement from the school he works for and not getting charged for breaking it.