From the New York Times comes Michelle LaBrosse’s account of her laptop’s travels. After she was injured, LaBrosse ended up checking her laptop computer as luggage on a flight to Chicago.
From her description, it sounds like she takes packs a lot in her bags when she travels. Maybe she should read this New York Times article about packing light.
In any case, when she arrived at O’Hare, her computer bag was missing. Never made it to the baggage carousel. No big surprise. Frankly, I’d never check my laptop computer on an airplane.
A few weeks later, one of her assistants at Cheetah Project Management determined that the computer was being used by someone for instant messaging.
Turns out the computer ended up in Nicaragua. LaBrosse never got the computer back, but at least ahe figured out where it went… and she got the story published in the Times.
Photo courtesy of william c hutton jr through a Creative Commons license.
Related posts on billso.com
- 15 May 2008: Don’t check cameras in your luggage
- 2 May 2008: Never check your computer on a plane
- 11 March 2008: Using Facebook as a lost-and-found department
- 3 March 2008: Building the perfect laptop
- 30 September 2006: Don’t steal my laptop!
- 28 June 2003: Where’s my luggage?
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Software won’t help you much if you LOSE your computer on a plane… a link troller had posted a comment promoting their Windows software. I took down their comment. Such is my power.
There’s lots of free scanning and security software available. For Windows users, I usually recommend Avast and SpywareBlaster. AdAware is OK, but the shareware version didn’t seem as effective as WinPatrol.
Very interesting how they managed to track it down - scary!
Very interesting how they managed to track it down - scary!
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