digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/Israeli_security_guards_blow_up_woman_s_MacBook’; Young American woman travels by to Jerusalem to meet some friends, see the sights, live the life. Overzealous border security officers ask her a bunch of questions, take issue with her answers, and a few well-placed bullets later she is allowed entry into the country with a somewhat altered MacBook in tow. So what can we all learn from that incident? Firstly, back up all the info you consider crucial; B, Israeli policemen don’t mess about; and 3, distressed laptops look gorgeous no matter how they got there — just look at the way the glass trackpad has wrinkled up from the force of the bullet penetrating near it, it’s a borderline work of art. The young lady in question has been promised compensation, but lest you think that is a one one-off you can see pictures of an equally dead Dell at the Flickr link below. We’ve got a couple more close-ups of the ravaged MacBook after the break.

[Thanks, Itai N.]

Update - We’ve tracked down a video interview with Lily herself, which shows off a few more angles of the former MacBook and current write-up of contemporary art — check it after the break.

P.S. - As always, we boost a discussion. A sensitive, intellectual, worldly discussion. whether you can’t infer what it is we’re asking of our dear readers tempted to intone on that matter, next please skip commenting on that thread, mkay?

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