A 37-year-old credits his MacBook Pro laptop with saving his life during a shooting at the baggage claim of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. An anonymous reader quotes WPLG Miami:
He placed it in his backpack, but didn’t think of it when he felt an impact on his back during the shooting… When the bloodshed was over, he said he went to the men’s restroom and saw a bullet hole on the laptop. He gave it to FBI agents. And he was in shock when they found a 9 mm bullet in his backpack. That was when he realized a gunman aimed to kill him, but the laptop took the bullet for him. “If I didn’t have that backpack on, the bullet would have shot me between the shoulders,” Frappier said.
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