Laptop Falls From Helicopter, Just Misses Boy

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We’ve heard of dropping laptops before, hell...we’ve dropped a few ourselves, but we’ve never dropped one out of a helicopter almost hitting a 10 year old kid. :eek:

Grayson said the computer made a loud sound when it hit the ground, almost like a gunshot. The 10-year-old's aunt was nearby when she heard the same noise. "'What's that?' It was really loud and not more than two seconds later my little nephew comes around the corner and says 'Auntie Laura, something just fell out of the sky and it almost hit me,'" said Laura Colon.
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Hospital officials said Life Link III had just landed with a patient and was leaving the helipad when the crew's computer was left on the helicopter's skid.
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St. Cloud Hospital is investigating the incident. Grayson's family was told to expect a call from the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA will also be looking into what happened.
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Good thing they're investigating. I wonder how it happened?
 
A shame it wasn't a Mac, that way the general media could report that it deployed pillows and a parachute, then automatically contacted a trauma clinic to schedule counselling for the 10 yo boy.
 
IronChef75 said:
A shame it wasn't a Mac, that way the general media could report that it deployed pillows and a parachute, then automatically contacted a trauma clinic to schedule counselling for the 10 yo boy.
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and [H] news could report on how macs are the root of all evil! :D
 
What is it lately with technology and injury related things in the news lately?
 
Emission said:
What is it lately with technology and injury related things in the news lately?
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It was a couple years back some kid in a university ripped the side of his case, and was sweating up a storm due to the heat, made contacted and fried himself.

Stuff happens.
 
Chadwick said:
lol.

I'm a bit curious if Life Link uses solid state drives in their laptops. The drive probably could survive the fall if it was into grass.
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Guessing you've never seen the internals of a Toughbook. The HDD/SSD is encased inside a gelatin type mold. Like those silicone cases for like iPods and such, but it's roughly 1/2" thick. All of that is then encased inside a stainless steel box. At least for that model of Toughbook.

I'm sure the HDD/SSD survived the crash. The rest of the laptop might not have, but the drive probably did. I'd probably try to boot it just to see what happens.
 
Chadwick said:
lol.

I'm a bit curious if Life Link uses solid state drives in their laptops. The drive probably could survive the fall if it was into grass.
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Guessing you've never seen the internals of a Toughbook. The HDD/SSD is encased inside a gelatin type mold. Like those silicone cases for like iPods and such, but it's roughly 1/2" thick. All of that is then encased inside a stainless steel box. At least for that model of Toughbook.

I'm sure the HDD/SSD survived the crash. The rest of the laptop might not have, but the drive probably did. I'd probably try to boot it just to see what happens.
 
IronChef75 said:
A shame it wasn't a Mac, that way the general media could report that it deployed pillows and a parachute, then automatically contacted a trauma clinic to schedule counselling for the 10 yo boy.
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Even better, it could have been an iPad. Instead of landing on the ground with a gunshot-like bang, it would have *poofed* next to the boy in a colorful cloud of smoke and fanfare.
 
Ahahah! They broke one of those rugged laptops! This musta been one hellova drop!
 
So the moral of the story is, if your contemplating commiting suicide by jumping off the room of the Hospital your visiting where you were just diagnosed with terminal cancer, don't bring the ToughBook with you for the fall if it has your last will and testimony on it? Also, watch before you leap for little kids playing near the hospital parking lot while their aunt is suppose to be watching as if you kill him it might be a guaranteed trip to Hell.
 
Why didn't the 10 year old kid catch the laptop and run off with it?
 
lol You just can't make up stuff like this, poor kid looks like the prototypical geek, and the laptop fell from a medical chopper... Too funny, altho probably kind of inevitable. They carry those things around constantly for paperwork after runs, was bound to happen sometime. Also completely accidental, but it's more than likely that the FAA will still have someone's ass over it. :eek:
 
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