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This may be relevant to many of you. It certainly is to me. >Travel Alert re: Laptop Theft > >>>The FAA recently learned of a hustle that's being employed at airports all >>>across the country to steal laptop computers. It involves two persons who >>>look for a victim carrying a laptop and approaching a metal detector. >>>They position themselves in front of the unsuspecting passenger. They >>>stall until the mark puts the laptop computer on the conveyor belt. Then >>>the first subject moves through the metal detector easily. The second >>>subject sets off the detector and begins a slow process of emptying >>pockets, >>>removing jewelry, etc. While this is happening, the first subject takes >>>the laptop as soon as it appears on the conveyor belt and moves away >>quickly. >>>When the passenger finally gets through the metal detector, the laptop is >>>gone. The subject that picks it up heads into the gate area and disappears >>>among the crowd. Sometimes a third subject will take a hand-off from the >>>first subject and the computer is out of the restricted area before the >>>mark even knows that it is gone. >>> >>>This is becoming a widely practiced problem and is happening at airports >>>everywhere. When traveling with a laptop computer, try to avoid lines >>>to enter a metal detector when possible. When you can't do that, delay >>>putting your luggage and laptop on the conveyor belt until you are sure >>>that you will be the next person through the metal detector. As you >>>move through the metal detector, keep you eyes on the conveyor belt and >>>watch for your luggage and laptop to come through as well as watching >>>for what those in front of you are picking up. >>> >>> >>>SOURCE: >>>U.S. Federal Aviation Administration >>> >>>Captain Terry Bowman >>>Chief, Technology Integration >>>Secretary of the Air Force >>>Office of Public Affairs >>> >>>(703) 695-8561 > > > ---------------------------- Victor Kress Geophysical Laboratory 5251 Broad Branch Road N.W. Washington, D.C. 20015-1305 (202) 686-2410 x2489 web page: http://granite.ciw.edu/~kress ---------------------------