Talk about Israel acting like a bully. Young traveler heads to Jerusalem, gets questioned, then waits and hears gunfire, which hit her 13-inch Macbook Pro. Fortunately she was able to retreive her hard drive, and is currently being told she will be compensated. According to airport security, it was “suspicous passenger luggage” that they were shooting. Here’s a tip by the way: Backup your data and be careful with your laptop in Israel. Blockquote and more destruction pics after the break.

[Via Lily Sussman]

Moments later a man came outside and introduced himself as the manager on duty. And then, “I’m sorry but we had to blow up your laptop. “ What….all my client case notes and testimony, writing, pictures, music and applications. Years of work. NO!!!! What?? Are you insane?? What were you thinking? THAT’S ALL MY WORK!? After much yelling, crying and frantic phone dialing (don’t be alarmed if I called you repeatedly this morning), he took me outside to see the wreckage. It turned out it hadn’t been quite blown up, but rather shot through with three bullets. We were able to extract the hard drive, seemingly unscaved. Thank goodness…