Toughbook plummets from helicopter, narrowly misses future Toughbook user

So, check it. You’re out and about with mum and dad on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, eager to get whatever’s on the grill into your own grille. You’re pondering the origin of wildflowers, the middle name of America’s 18th president and how humanity functioned prior to the invention of Mighty Putty. You’re only ten years old, but your young eyes have lived to see a lot… so much, in fact, that you’re semi-seriously considering penning your own novella. Bang. Three inches to your left lies a mildly deformed swivel-screen laptop, and all you can think about is the gush of air that’s still rustling your fauxhawk. Turns out, a medical helicopter departing St. Cloud Hospital in Minnesota forgot to bring their Panasonic Toughbook onboard before heading out, and if fate were feeling just a bit more cruel, that shock-mounted hard drive may have left you out for the count. But as it stands, you’ve got a fairly stupendous show-and-tell to deliver in class this week, and who knows — maybe that DIMM will work in your Nickelodeon Edition Mini 10.

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