Hi all,
Sorry to have been out of touch. I’m in the hospital for the last five days
recovering from an appendectomy, and am only dealing with urgent messages from
here. Therefore the silence.
Here is some very useful info for those of you who own notebooks. I can’t live
without mine.
Jeffrey Friedl wrote:
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Travel Alert re: Laptop Theft
The FAA recently learned of a hustle that’s being employed at airports all
across the country to steal laptop computers. It involves two persons who look
for a victim carrying a laptop and approaching a metal detector. They position
themselves in front of the unsuspecting passenger. They stall until the mark
puts the laptop computer on the conveyor belt. Then the first subject moves
through the metal detector easily. The second subject sets off the detector and
begins a slow process of emptying pockets, removing jewelry, etc. While this is
happening, the first subject takes the laptop as soon as it appears on the
conveyor belt and moves away quickly. When the passenger finally gets through
the metal detector, the laptop is gone. The subject that picks it up heads into
the gate area and disappears among the crowd. Sometimes a third subject will
take a hand-off from the first subject and the computer is out of the restricted
area before the mark even knows that it is gone.
This is becoming a widely practiced problem and is happening at airports
everywhere. When traveling with a laptop computer, try to avoid lines to enter a
metal detector when possible. When you can’t do that, delay putting your luggage
and laptop on the conveyor belt until you are sure that you will be the next
person through the metal detector. As you move through the metal detector, keep
you eyes on the conveyor belt and watch for your luggage and laptop to come
through as well as watching for what those in front of you are picking up.
SOURCE: U.S. Federal Aviation Administration
Captain Terry Bowman Chief, Technology Integration Secretary of the Air Force
Office of Public Affairs
(703) 695-8561
Regards, Jack Halpern
Kanji Dictionary Publishing Society 1-3-502 3-Chome Niiza, Niiza-shi, Saitama
352 JAPAN Voice: +81-048-481-3103 Fax: +81-048-479-1323
