Thai protester shot dead after aiming green laser at troops

lasersbee said:

He won't be doing that again any time soon...

Jerry

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He might have learnt the lesson.

ixfd64 said:

Thai protester shot in the head for taunting armed troops with a laser pointer | Mail Online

The questions that come to mind are:

1. How far was the guy from the troops?
2. How powerful was the laser?

Here's what most of us would agree on:

1. Sniper rifles are rarely accurate beyond one mile, especially if the target is moving. Regular military-issue weapons have even lower accuracy.
2. An adequately powerful green laser can cause flash blindness at several miles.
3. Most bullets travel below 1 mi/s, while light travels at about 186,000 mi/s.

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Bangkok is a shoot on sight zone by the Thai military. The protestors seem to be getting all sorts of military hardware from insiders in the Thai army and have boobytrapped some of the downtown businesses with explosives. The redshirts aim at nothing but to disrupt the economy of Thailand and have been paid by Thaksin's government which had lots of stolen Thai money. I have NO sympathy for the reds.
Thailand is a country that has only known successive dictatorship after successive dictatorship and coup after coup. IT is Junta govt, NOT a democratic country despite what people are reporting in the news.
Corruption is a way of politics and business in that part of the world.

Only about 30 years ago, this country ROK had a civil uprising in Gwanju that led the way for democracy into South Korean society. ( still having issues though)