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Hummm Lets take a video of a computer just setting just in case it catches fire. You know it happens every day.

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Oh great...just wait until the retards in Washington running the TSA see this.....no more laptops on airplanes....as well as toothpaste, deodarant, water, diet coke and of course, the biggest danger in the sky.....finger nail clippers

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Awfully funny that someone just "happened" to be videotaping that laptop at the time. Seems like a diversion tactic of some kind. What else happened near-by while this was going on?

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How convieniant to ban so much yet permit laptops on planes as well! Laptops are not Necessities! Like Gramps and Granny needed them. A cell phone and compressed sulfer alone from a box of matches placed inside the phone could cause at the very least enough Bang to blow out a planes window, so why a laptop? They need be in cargo!

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If you look closely, it's not the laptop that catches fire but the transformer on the AC adapter that catches fire...the guy pulls the laptop away from that transformer.....and someone filming this? That's the strange part....someone holding a camera right when it starts to smoke...strange, very strange.

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if this happened on a plane,the same thing would happen as in this photo...

airplanes do not explode if a fire starts in the cabin....just as they dont fall like a rock if the engines 1 or all happen to flame out in midair.

flippin idiot media.

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Everybody complains about the bans of content on a plane! What pampered little babies fly these days! I remember when a good book and a coke and peanuts were fine and dandy! But then again...one could smoke on planes as well! DRATZ! So much for the good 'ol days! Puff*.Phillip Morris Brands! Good S@*t!

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And another thing, why was it just sitting there all by itself?

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Why were there no scream's and scared people running away?

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Mongo smell bullshit

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I heard laptops were hot items but this is crazy!

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This obviously was staged. As far as happening on a plane, I fly all the time and have yet to see anyone
recharging their laptop while on board. We can ban laptops, we can ban shampoo and tooth paste, if they really wanna blow up a plane, they will figure out a way to do it. By the way, should we ban shoes too?

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Is this at LAX or Mexico City????? But then again, whats the difference. It would have been nice to understand the language!

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Banning laptops is just another notch in GW Bush's record___glorified by the TSA and all the goofs leading it. Beef up security so we can safely ship our laptop in the baggage compartment. Everybody can be happy and
content about their property. I am going to see about sending my laptop via Express Mail to overseas addresses, or maybe just buy another laptop. No, i am not "rich"__it is a sense of priorities and I thinkthat my success in business is more important than a big DVD at home or a football season ticket.
Smokescreen

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Emma and everyone, very astute! A couple of things caught my attention in this clip. The laptop was sitting on the floor of a public place. It appeared to be 'unattended?" Anyone that owns a laptop would NEVER sit in on the floor in a public place and then leave it out of arm's reach! This is definately a planned 'filming'. The real question is WHY? I think that is obvious. Just another way for Big Brother to deny more of our freedoms.

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