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.

    Burn Baby Burn - A Cigar Story

   ONLY IN THE U.S. LEGAL SYSTEM
   A Charlotte, North Carolina man, having purchased a case of rare, very
   expensive cigars, insured them against ... get this ...fire.
   Within a month, having smoked his entire stockpile of fabulous cigars,
   and having yet to make a single premium payment on the policy, the man
   filed a claim against the insurance company. In his claim, the man
   stated that he had lost the cigars in "a series of small fires."
   The insurance company refused to pay, citing the obvious reason that
   the man had consumed the cigars in a normal fashion. The man
   sued...and won!
   In delivering his ruling, the judge stated that since the man held a
   policy from the company in which it had warranted that the cigars were
   insurable, and also guaranteed that it would insure the cigars against
   fire, without defining what it considered to be "unacceptable fire,"
   it was obligated to compensate the insured for his loss.
   Rather than endure a lengthy and costly appeal process, the insurance
   company accepted the judge's ruling and paid the man $15,000 for the
   rare cigars he lost in "the fires." After the man cashed his check,
   however, the insurance company had him arrested ... on 24 counts of
   arson!
   With his own insurance claim and testimony from the previous case
   being used as evidence against him, the man was convicted of
   intentionally burning the rare cigars and sentenced to 24 consecutive
   one year terms!


  

Some Boeing employees recently "liberated" a life raft
from one of the 747s on the company's production line.
Later, they took it for a float on the Stilliguamish
river. Imagine their surprise when a Coast Guard helicopter
"rescued" them after homing in on the emergency locator
beacon that activated when the raft was inflated. Not
surprisingly, they no longer work at Boeing.