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[MacBook Pro] Lap top saves man's life during Fort Lauderdale airport shooting
WPLG ^ | 1/7/16 | Andrea Torres

Posted on 01/08/2017 3:29:53 AM PST by markomalley

There were bullets flying at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport when 13 people were shot. Five of them didn't make it out of the baggage claim area alive. And Steve Frappier was lucky. He credited his Apple MacBook Pro for saving his life.

The 37-year-old traveler from Atlanta brought his school-issued lap top, because he was going to an education conference. He placed it in his backpack, but didn't think of it when he felt an impact on his back during the shooting.

"I was wearing a backpack on both shoulders and then when we went to the floor, I dropped and the backpack was still on my back," Frappier said during an interview with CNN.

(Excerpt) Read more at local10.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; florida; terror
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To: Daniel Ramsey

TSA might let something like this through as opposed to actually wearing a vest:

http://bulletblocker.com/bullet-proof-backpack-shield.html

Some parents are buying these for their kids at school ... at least ‘center mass’ can be covered.


21 posted on 01/08/2017 5:47:54 AM PST by Qiviut (In Islam you have to die for Allah. The God I worship died for me. [Franklin Graham])
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To: Springfield Reformer
versus three layers of plastic (pc).

My HP Probook is aluminum.

You get what you pay for.

22 posted on 01/08/2017 5:51:22 AM PST by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: markomalley

23 posted on 01/08/2017 5:56:31 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Qiviut

Thanks for that link!

Now you really got my brain juice going, i travel a fair bit, was in Oz last year and Hawaii and soon i’m traveling again for a certification course, i always travel with my 12 inch Samsung tablet, i have a padded case for it, bit larger, was made gorca laotop, i’m buying some ballistic panels to sew into it. Give me something of a shield.


24 posted on 01/08/2017 6:01:35 AM PST by Daniel Ramsey (MAGA)
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To: Vinnie
Recently I tried to destroy a hard drive with a hammer.

You should have just wiped it .... like with a cloth.

25 posted on 01/08/2017 6:01:58 AM PST by meyer (The Constitution says what it says, and it doesn't say what it doesn't say.)
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To: dp0622

You might want to ask William Tell and his son?


26 posted on 01/08/2017 6:37:34 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: meyer
You should have just wiped it .... like with a cloth.

LOL

27 posted on 01/08/2017 7:19:39 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: dp0622
Would a straight on shot penetrate a laptop?

The Mythbusters tested this as few years back, and determined that the laptop battery is dense enough that it might stop birdshot at point-blank range. Anything bigger than that, and the laptop is basically transparent. The kid in this story must have caught a stray, glancing shot; I doubt a laptop would have protected him if he was deliberately targeted.

28 posted on 01/08/2017 7:25:02 AM PST by RansomOttawa
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To: RansomOttawa

Correction: not a “kid.” The “school-based laptop” threw me. At 37, almost certainly a teacher.


29 posted on 01/08/2017 7:28:07 AM PST by RansomOttawa
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To: Daniel Ramsey
... bought kevlar scraps years ago, used 120 lb spectra fishing line as sewing thread, used urethane bed coating to keep the weave from separating and sewed them into the knees of my carhart pants in case i had a motorcycle accident.It worked well without using bulky plastic pads.

You've got a potential business there... thanks for sharing Daniel.

30 posted on 01/08/2017 7:40:22 AM PST by GOPJ (ObamaCare Motto: "If You Like Your Doctor, Maybe You'll Like Your New Doctor" - Dave Barry)
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To: xp38

Swordmaker is having a heart procedure today. He’s unavailable for comment. Pray for him.


31 posted on 01/08/2017 11:06:40 AM PST by NCC-1701 ((You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.))
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To: ctdonath2

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1783054/posts


32 posted on 01/08/2017 11:08:35 AM PST by jospehm20
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To: NCC-1701

Thanks I caught that shortly after I posted. Sent prayers right then.


33 posted on 01/08/2017 12:12:45 PM PST by xp38
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To: randita; dp0622
Some straight-though paths through my late 2015 MacBook Pro are essentially 3/8" of aircraft-grade aluminum. (The base is CNC machined from a solid aluminum slab.)

That amount of resistance would seriously impede -- or totally stop -- a hollowpoint 9mm slug.

34 posted on 01/08/2017 1:50:49 PM PST by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias. "Barack": Allah's current ally. "Comey" Barack's current toadie...)
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To: dp0622

“Would a straight on shot penetrate a laptop?”

Yes.


35 posted on 01/08/2017 7:47:21 PM PST by ConsCA
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To: Vinnie

“Recently I tried to destroy a hard drive with a hammer.
Amazing how tough they are, The type with a spinning disc.
The case was tough and the disc itself was really tough.
Best I could do is dent it.

I can see a hard drive stopping a soft / hollow point.”

Ever heard a drive shredded? Makes a lot of noise.


36 posted on 01/08/2017 7:50:34 PM PST by ConsCA
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To: ConsCA

The only things I know about guns and bullets come from this website.

It seems some bullets would and some wouldn’t, according to the answers I’ve received.

A 9mm hollow point would or wouldn’t?

What the heck is a hollow point anyway? :)


37 posted on 01/08/2017 7:55:41 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Travis McGee

Raoul X was my first thought when this story broke. Something had to wipe the Chicago kidnap/torture story off the news and this shooting was...just what the doctor ordered.


38 posted on 01/08/2017 8:03:37 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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