Would you...

take someone's laptop home to fix it if that person would ask you whether you would like to take it with you?

I did not. The reason is that I do not want to be considered curious. I mean there it is all data of a person - well at least in my case that is what it means. I have everything on it. Every little thing, which I could get as softcopy and the rest was scanned.

But, of course, I regularly make backups on an external hard drive. Just in case... You never know.