Oh yeah I saw that too. What a load of arse cheese. They were just being pricks. It says they didnt even hit the hard drive inside.
That whole area/conflict is so screwed up. When will these morons stop associating themselves to a group of people/religion and realize they are both freaken HUMAN BEINGS!!

If they didnt each have a huge stack of ideologies and customs which conflicted with each other, they wouldnt need to give a shit about fighting. Why do they have to keep it up? They belong to a bigger country than jewland/arabland or whatever they come from. They come from earth. They should shut the fk up and play nice. Other countries are far more powerful and are peaceful to the point where we can kill each other over video game powerups.

The standard procedure of operation in Isreal and in lots of places is to blow up the offending package. She left her bag alone for a while and they thought it could be a bomb, as such they shot at the bag to blow it up as that is standard practice. It was her own fault for leaving it unattended and she is getting compensated so who really cares 😛

Cheers

They saw it was a Mac, recognised how evil it was, and shot it.

The standard procedure of operation in Isreal and in lots of places is to blow up the offending package. She left her bag alone for a while and they thought it could be a bomb, as such they shot at the bag to blow it up as that is standard practice. It was her own fault for leaving it unattended and she is getting compensated so who really cares 😛

Cheers

Hang on…. they thought it was a bomb…. so they blew it up.. wtf.. Ok I admit I have no knowledge in bomb’s but if you go blasting the hell out of a bomb.. isn’t there a chance it will explode.. Idk how much logic went into the shooting of that “bomb”.

They would have moved the bomb to a better location first (most likely). They either call in the bomb squad to disarm it or they shoot at it to blow it up in a controlled place. Since it was laptop sized, my guess is that they thought it was a reasonably small bomb and thus shooting at it was ok to blow it up 🙂

Cheers

who gives a shit i say. they are all a bunch of idiots. they should just STOP FRIGGING FIGHTING. Its like WHO CARES who owns the freaking land. Nobody does and everybody does. Just get the uck along. People are dying over there. Im sick of seeing on the news people dying over that stupid religious crap.

Since it was laptop sized, my guess is that they thought it was a reasonably small bomb and thus shooting at it was ok to blow it up

Small laptop sized.. i wonder if it coulda been a laptop, they wouldn’t have shot at it if it was a bomb they do have procedures it dosnt matter what size they were just being a bunch of pricks

With the same passion minus the swearing, a stongly agree with cake. Its mindless violence over something / someone that probably doesnt even exist (i.e. god).

Cake you are a man of brilliance!

With the same passion minus the swearing, a stongly agree with cake. Its mindless violence over something / someone that probably doesnt even exist (i.e. god).

Although I agree, I don’t think this incident has that much to do with religion, but I just skimmed over it so IDK.

Pictures are far superior!

shot blusky 🙂

They would have moved the bomb to a better location first (most likely). They either call in the bomb squad to disarm it or they shoot at it to blow it up in a controlled place. Since it was laptop sized, my guess is that they thought it was a reasonably small bomb and thus shooting at it was ok to blow it up :)Cheers

Seen this happen before, the security guys usually would vacate the area then fire 3-5shots at the suspicious luggage.
In places like Israel there isn’t enough bomb squad personnel to attend all bomb scares and when you factor in that it’ll take hours to try to defuse plus the thousands of people it’ll inconvenience then this is the end result.
I mean seriously who would leave their luggage unattended these days let alone leaving it in an Israeli airport :S

P.S – this is the best comment from the story 🙂

“Saul said, on December 16, 2009 at 1:42 pm

Well, maybe it was time for you to buy a Dell…
If they shot the laptop – they probably had a very good reason to do it.”

I’m with cake. It’s the 21st century. They should seriously just grow up and get over it already. All the extra ‘security’ causes incidents like this to happen for no reason. So much money they spend on weapons instead of actually trying to turn their country into something the Western world would have some respect for.

Pretty lucky they missed the HDD though. Moral of the story: Don’t go to the Middle-East. At least Asia/US/Europe have cool things. You can put up with the bad things there. But Middle-East…

I’m with cake. It’s the 21st century. They should seriously just grow up and get over it already. All the extra ‘security’ causes incidents like this to happen for no reason. So much money they spend on weapons instead of actually trying to turn their country into something the Western world would have some respect for.

Thats easier said than done. I mean if a bunch of hobos muscles then locks you out of your house wouldn’t you try to get it back?

Pretty lucky they missed the HDD though. Moral of the story: Don’t go to the Middle-East. At least Asia/US/Europe have cool things. You can put up with the bad things there. But Middle-East…

Don’t knock it till you’ve been there. The Middle-East is a great place to holiday in minus the almost daily bomb scares and security breaches 🙂

Thats easier said than done. I mean if a bunch of hobos muscles then locks you out of your house wouldn’t you try to get it back?

Join the hobos. Or better yet, have some beers with them.

Sure, in our world here in AUS/NZ if someone came and pushed us out of our home it would be worthwhile. But over there, the scale is much much larger than an individuals home, so its not a case of personal space. Its political. IE peoples ideologies are involved.

Seriously we tell kids not to join gangs and things because this feeble crap starts to happen. Over there they are adults and all walks of life. Idiots.

OK guys Star Trek was right. The 1960s episode ‘Let that be your last battlefield’ goes:
The enterprise by accident comes across two aliens intent on destroying each other. They are from 2 factions on the same planet. One is an official, taking back a ‘terrorist’. The other guy is a ‘freedom fighter’ running from an ‘oppressor’.

But one is black on left side of his body, and white on the other. The other guy is black on the RIGHT side of his body, & white on the other. They absolutely hate each other to the point where they cant stop trying to kill each other. For centuries running through the galaxy.

The enterprise is like ffs and takes them back to their home planet to sort it out, only to find that their entire planet has been destroyed. The two factions destroyed each other centuries ago, all for the fact their colours were backwards & nothing else. Theyre now the last remaining members of their species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_That_Be_Your_Last_Battlefield