An interesting IS bulletin which was really published by one company. Recently, two individuals from USPL were traveling to Belgium on Sabena Belgium World Airlines, which is affiliated with Delta Airlines. They were seated in row 6 of the plane where seats contain the tray tables in the armrest section of the seat. They setup their tray tables and proceeded to use their laptop during flight, both their PCs began experiencing problems. Apparently the tray tables were magnetized, so they will not make noises while stored in the armrests. The magnetized trays corrupted the hard drives of both laptops. On this particular Belgium flight, the aircraft happen to be a "new" Airbus 340, which explains why this has not surfaced until now. The problem seems to be with a specific European aircraft seat manufacturer. US Airways, NorthWestern and United have no plans to utilize these magnetized trays in their new Airbus aircraft. Boeing and McDonald Douglas also has no plans to use these magnetized trays in their new aircraft, and there have been no reported cases of other types of aircraft experiencing this problem. The purpose of this notice is to simply make travelers aware of the "potential" problem, especially on Airbus aircraft built for European- based airlines. If the tray table appears to be magnetized (use a paperclip to see if it sticks), then I advise people NOT to use their laptop computer on these trays.
A bus carrying five passengers was hit by a car in St. Louis, but by the time police arrived on the scene, fourteen pedestrians had boarded the bus and had begun to complain of whiplash injuries and back pain.
A friend told me "I can understand why men don't like vasectomies. My uncle got a vasectomy, and paid for it with MasterCard. He forgot to pay the bill, and the finance company came over to his house and knocked up my aunt."
