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Airport Surprise: 1,200 Laptops a Week Lost at LAX
LA Weekly ^
| Jul. 7 2009
| Steven Mikulan
Posted on 07/09/2009 5:35:50 AM PDT by raybbr
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Can this be possible?
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:35:51 AM PDT
by
raybbr
To: ShadowAce
Tech ping.
Does this sound possible?
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:36:28 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; Salo; Bobsat; JosephW; ...
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:38:12 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: raybbr
Headline is misleading. It should be 1,200 laptops lost each each at all US airports combined.
Not just at LAX.
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:39:50 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
Oops. I misread the article.
Never mind.
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:40:25 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:41:44 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: raybbr
12,000 laptops are lost each week at U.S. airports. Los Angeles leads the pack with 1,200 laptops reported lost or stolen at LAX weekly Sounds fishy to me. Seems like these would have to resold somewhere. Reselling 12,000 laptops per week would have to raise some red flags.
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:42:00 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(Don't explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway)
To: McGruff
Sounds fishy to me. Seems like these would have to resold somewhere. Reselling 12,000 laptops per week would have to raise some red flags.It does say a third are recovered. I want to know what happens to the other two-thirds?
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:43:42 AM PDT
by
raybbr
(It's going to get a lot worse now that the anchor babies are voting!)
To: raybbr
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:44:44 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: raybbr
Sounds like I need to talk to the local TSA, and see what kind of “deal” I can get on a good used laptop. :)
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:44:51 AM PDT
by
DYngbld
(I have read the back of the Book and we WIN!!!!)
To: raybbr
More TSA loot to sell on eBay - double handfuls of little Swiss Army Knives, etc, etc.
![](http://tripcart.typepad.com/tripcart_the_blog/images/2007/07/22/lighters_courtesy_of_the_ap.jpg)
And the dreaded Assault Nail Clipper:
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:45:24 AM PDT
by
Dumpster Baby
(The chair is against the wall. John has a long mustache.)
To: allmost
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:45:47 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: raybbr
there must be millions going through LAX every week. so this seems plausible.
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:46:03 AM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: raybbr
It's not even close to being possible. Dell got ripped off on their stupid little study.
That’d be about 40,000 abandoned lap tops a year at LAX. Where would they keep them all?
I work in a similar environment, albeit with about one tenth the traffic, and we see one or two a year.
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:47:16 AM PDT
by
End Times Sentinel
(In Memory of my Dear Friend Henry Lee II)
To: Dumpster Baby
Don’t leave home with it....\
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:47:16 AM PDT
by
allmost
To: raybbr
Sounds like TSA folks at LAX have become innured to the detached laptops and don't think a thing about them.
That's a serious security problem ~ eventually someone will bring one in there that's "Live" and leave it behind and no one will even suspect something is wrong until it goes off and levels the security point and several hundred passengers waiting in line.
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:52:49 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
To: raybbr
Title says — Airport Surprise: 1,200 Laptops a Week Lost at LAX
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Ummmm..., title of another article... “eBay Suprise: 1,200 Laptops a Week sold on eBay”... LOL...
eBay - criminal enterprise and scam center on the Internet... :-)
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:54:04 AM PDT
by
Star Traveler
(The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
To: raybbr
Later next week, I will be in Artesia NM where they train TSA personnel. Will catch an instructor at Walmart or one the restaurants and ask them.
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posted on
07/09/2009 5:55:15 AM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
To: McGruff
‘would have to raise some red flags’
Yeah, like all the personal data floating around waiting for someone to abuse it. How many of the unrecovered have even a rudimentary password required for accessing the computer?
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posted on
07/09/2009 6:16:31 AM PDT
by
castlebrew
(Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
To: raybbr
especially those who show up half an hour before takeoff and think they can just walk straight on to the plane.Ahh, the good ol' days...
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