Lily Sussman, an American tourist was traveling abroad to the holy land, Jerusalem, Israel, when a couple of overzealous border guards stopped her to question her about her visit. It seems security didn’t really like the answers they received as they confiscated Sussman’s MacBook, only to return it a short while later with three bullet holes in it.
Needless to say, the MacBook was destroyed, but the hard drive survived as it didn’t take a direct hit. I guess you can call that one rugged hard drive, having survived the shock of the bullets going through the case. I’m not sure if Lily did regular data backups prior to this event, but something makes me thing that a regular data backup process may be in order after this event.
Sussman mentioned that Israeli officials have provided her with contact information of government officials that will provide her with monetary compensation for her destroyed Apple gear.
Via: Apple Insider
Here’s video of the Macbook with bullet holes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihXtbB-4GWw
this incident was bound to happen given the mindset of the girl in question.
I love how she says in interviews that her family is “partly Jewish” after she says the Israelis were cold to her- as if they should have behaved in a friendly manner. clearly she got her back up after that reception. First of all, she is not “partly jewish”- she is 100% Jewish, although maybe she identifies with her Christian stepmother (daddy’s 3rd wife- a penniless white trash woman with 3 mouths to feed but who was in a prime situation to idolize her new husband) which is weird because lily’s primary residence was in her Jewish mother’s house. Daddy issues much? wrapped up with a confused personal identity? You decide. common sense: don’t travel to Israle with pictures of swastikas, a map of a bus station and addresses in the west bank and have no idea what the jewish holidays are while claiming to be partly jewish. remember anne marie murphy- the white girl used as a bomb courier by her arab bf? apparently lily couldn’t see the parallels. Due to her father’s bent as an overzealous civil rights lawyer, she assumed that she had some Consitutional rights at the Israeli-Arab border. somewhere in her blog she writes about her disrespect of the Israeli border guard, indicating she was provincial and hadn’t travelled out of Israel much (as if the burden of proof was on the guard to assume lily’s behavior all had a rational explanation instead of the burden being on lily to make it through the screening process). Note to travellers- some deference is due the people with guns at the borders- they think about security 100% of the time- you think about it the .o5% of the time you actually cross a border!
If you google daddy sussman, you will find ample documentation of his very bad rep- the courts yanked his law licnse for a year for taking clients’ funds out of escrow (this is viewed as stealing by the courts and the profession) and he takes a lot of bogus cases like “oh I’m hispanic, I lost my job because of my race even though I did a crap job” and “oh, I was unfairly arrested by police after I took it upon myself to go down a blocked street to get to my son’s school faster”. but when you throw enough paint at the wall, sometimes it sticks, so he manages to cajole enough institutions into giving him a payout. daddy sussman also hosted a summit for his little girl called “murder and piracy on the high seas” after the turkish flotilla incident so they could both publicly condemn Israel. It’s the wrong conclusion as the consequence of flawed thinking and it was on display here at the border. check out lily’s blog and videos for more ramblings about how israel is quasi fascist and aggressive (never mind the fact that the arab country the girl spent half a year in has basically imploded under the weight of internal fascism there, which poor lily was too stilted to notice).
she says this incident doesn’t make sense to her? lily, you don’t make sense at all.