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Originally Posted by Mike L
Sorry to hear about your lost briefcase. I hope you get it back.
The reason for my reply is that I picked up your remark: ... if it is not dunked in water because they think it is a bomb. Where I come from, they never dunk a suspected bomb in water. Rather, they blow it up in a controlled explosion.
(Sorry, you probably didn't want to hear that.)
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I would have thought, personally, that dropping it in water would be most likely to cause an electrical short-circuit and make it explode!
What they actually generally do here in the UK is to have a little wheeled robot which blasts it with a shotgun at point-blank range, on the ground that that will destroy the electronics of the device - or, er, Kindle...
I'm sure, though, that a briefcase left on a seat will simply be handed in as lost property. People are generally pretty honest about that kind of thing.