Three weeks ago, I had my laptop bag stolen in Dublin airport. I was having a coffee in the bar at duty free. I went up to buy the drink. My bag was with my friend, who was seated, reading a paper. When I came back, two minutes later, the bag was gone.
It wasn't a complete disaster: there wasn't actually a laptop in it. I was traveling to Liverpool for the night and had only packed some clean underwear. But the slimmest bag I had was a laptop bag, which was obviously what was targeted.
Boy, I would have given anything to see that motherf***er's face when he opened the bag. One pair of novelty boxer shorts and a pair of black socks.
Nevertheless, I'm ultra-careful now. As I write this, I'm sitting in Salt Lake City airport, sipping a tea. My travel bag, which has two laptops in it (because Aer Lingus can't be trusted to provide a modern plane with a power point on it for my leg back to Dublin form San Francisco), is sitting beside me.
There is no fucking way that anyone is getting this bag. (And if they do, I'll have a bit of explaining to do to Toshiba, as one of the laptops is a review unit, the NB100 (see my review here),)
Wow that took a lot of nerve to steal a laptop bag while your friend was sitting right there. I'm glad things turned out well.
In the spirit of having a bit of fun with the situation, one of our staff members drew a cartoon of the incident.
Hope you like it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sumobackup/3488236689/
Posted by: Sumo Backup | April 30, 2009 at 04:42 PM