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Maybe he had a close call with a laser and it scared him out of the hobby.
This almost happened to me once.
My friend had a brand new A140(I think, predecessor to M140) diode blue laser around 1 watt of power and we were off roading in the middle of nowhere and he was playing with it shining it into the sky(there was no planes) onto far away trees and rocks we burned through a few sets of batteries using it. Then right as we were about to get in my truck and leave we were looking at each other from 18" apart and talking and he had the laser still on pointing at a treeline 30 yards away and the laser hit a reflective sign loggers use to mark tree's and reflected the beam directly though the 18" of space right between out faces, I swear I could feel heat coming off the beam, few inches either way and one of us could have been blind for life. the sign it reflected off of was only less than1" round, chances of that happening were so small, but it happened.
That was almost a game changer for me and made me almost quite lasers.
No danger is not the reason I'm getting out of the hobby. Their are a few personal reasons why and also I think if I continued the hobby in the long term I would regret it. Also to the person that says I'm trying to get people to convince me to come back that's not how it is. I am very much done and I only made this thread because I didn't just wanna ditch everyone I've known on LPF.