Ron Shoots

Our days start early, often when it’s still dark. We loaded the truck and began backing out of the parking lot when the front tire of our 9,000 lb Ford Excursion bumped over something. Momentary horror set in as my assistant and I looked at each other and simultaneously said “What was that!?” and perhaps a few forgettable phrases. Getting out of the truck, we realized the laptop case had been left next to the front tire and we had just backed over our brand new Apple 2.0Ghz laptop!

Fortunately, our laptop was protected by an OtterBox case. The side of the case was crushed, totally destroyed. Nestled inside was our laptop, safe and sound. Not a scratch! I touched the return key and the laptop sprung to life. Yes, we did some real world testing for OtterBox! Their web site says you can stand on the case, but never did I think that we would run over the case with the truck!

We’ll be ordering a replacement. If you plan on running over your laptop, you might want to check out an OtterBox at www.otterbox.com.

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Why did this happen? We broke one of our cardinal rules that we call the “idiot check” which is the last look around to make sure we haven’t forgotten something at a location, left something sitting outside the truck or anything else really dumb that can happen. It doesn’t matter if its 5:30am or you’re worn out from shooting all day- a last minute check can make all the difference in the world. You can be sure we look everywhere 3 times now!