Anyone know this moron?

[Crazlaser]

I've had what Alaskan described happen to me. But not direct hit. I had all my lasers on one night in tripods shining over a pond for photography and apparently two jets went through the sky near the beams. I was pretty scared, packed up and got home as fast as possible. Since then I use a spotter if I leave my lasers on and go a distance away from them so they can be turned off rapidly.

 

[fojumdk]

Maybe this guy was thinking the helicopter was sounding loud and he wanted to get it away from where he lived or maybe he was drunk? But i dont see the point in pointing laser pointers at planes/helictopers. You can do so many other things that aint illegal

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

I can certainly understand pilots and others wanting to get their eyes checked after being flashed by a laser, however I take issue with the fact that these articles nearly always claim that there's an injury, where there is none, and that there is this great perceived public danger, where to date not a single crash can be attributed to a laser, despite hundreds or thousands of incidents.

 

[Alaskan]

Agree with that... Pilots will claim injury just because they are miffed, I know those birds well because I am one too.

 

[Antharak]

I can't even use my lasers outside :cryyy: I live in a city and I'm within 10 mi of an airport and in direct line with a runway. So I'm stuck with the basement. I just don't understand why morons continue to do this when so many have received REAL jail time, just don't see how they could be so stupid.
Ed

 

[Razako]

Seems like the article always mentions the pilots getting checked for injury by eye doctors, and then there's of course never a follow-up article when the pilots end up being just fine. Honestly, the level of paranoia over laser strikes has been getting silly. Very few (if any) legit injuries to pilots, and not one crash yet. If other distracting items such as cell phones were held to the same standard they would have been banned years ago.

 

[InfinitusEquitas]

IIRC there have been only two cases where there was eye damage. Another depressing case was with a volunteer at burning man... not a pilot though.

Incidentally on my recent travels I picked up a 445nm for the equivalent of $40, and the way the guy demonstrated the laser was downright scary to me. I'm amazed there aren't more inc incidents with lasers, that are not aircraft related, internationally.

 

[steve001]

When will these bozo's learn not to point a laser at an aircraft?!

A bozo categorically can't, hence they are a bozo. I'd bet for this guy being a bozo in many other facets of life.

 

[Alaskan]

 

[Crazlaser]

A bozo categorically can't, hence they are a bozo. I'd bet for this guy being a bozo in many other facets of life.

The kind of bozo who works for a daycare, cuts the grass with a lawnmower and decides to tape the autodrive system down with kids around.