Airlines react to more flaming laptops
William Shatner, happened to be in Los Angeles International Airport last weekend, when a fellow passenger about to board an United Airlines flight to London, came rushing back and flung to the floor his too-hot-to-handle laptop — an IBM/Lenovo ThinPad. In seconds, it burst into flames like a firecracker and left a deep burn patch on the floor. Mr. Shatner snapped photos with his camera-phone and posted two of them on the SomethingAwful blogging site, with a first person account of the incident.
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