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My phone rang about 20 mintues ago. My mother says "Daniel! Turn on channel seven news right now, they're about to cover a story on shooting lasers at airplanes..." Not more than 3 seconds after hanging up with her my phone rings again.. "Hey Dan (its the neighbor) - there's news on TV about airplanes and lasers, channel 7"
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They're talking about this....
The story was your typical 'growing concern over increased 'lasing' incidents', ect... Nothing too surprising or blown out of proportion.... except there was one part that caught me in particular.
"Since last year there's been 98 reported incidents at O'Hare airport with lasers and aircraft, and the FBI is very close to solving an ongoing investigation they've been working on for several months"
To me, this is good AND scares the hell out of me. It's good because (1) I personally am innocent & shouldn't have anything to worry about, right? I know I don't shine lasers at airplanes & dont see HTF I could be accused of anything otherwise. (2) I hope they catch whoever is responsible so I don't have to continously field questions from my family & neighbors.
Now what scares the hell out of me is that everyone around me KNOWS I have high powered lasers. I shoot them all the time, responsibly of course - but just about every damn day. I've never had any lasers confiscated, no warnings or complaints ever from what I've been doing.
I also live across the street from the local police department and they've most certainly seen me shooting lasers before. I know that might shock some people but it is the truth. Whether I've been running my dog around the front yard (not hight powered of course) or focusing mounted lasers on the treelines across the street into the park (definitely high powered) - the local police know who I am AND that I am absolutely the only one in our area with several high powered lasers.... They've seen them several dozen times.
NOW... 1/2 way into this news story I thought about going to the police sometime very soon and introducing myself as 'the guy across the street with the lasers' and telling them that I've seen a few stories on the news about this and basically want to 'register' myself with the village/police dept. By doing this, I feel I would be entering myself into their system as someone who wouldn't be mistaken as someone trying to crash airplanes with my lasers since I was volunteering my information, ect to them instead of being a 'possible culprit'.
Is this a bad idea?
My first concern of course is that they'll ask me to turn in my 'illegal lasers' because they're not legal AND because this is a growing problem. But are they illegal? I understand they're illegal to import, sell or use in any irresponsible manner against trasnporation, people, ect ect. But I also understand it is not illegal to build or own these lasers... Am I wrong? Please enlighten me if I am. I'd love to have as much accurate information on this as possible. Thanks! :beer:
..........
They're talking about this....
The story was your typical 'growing concern over increased 'lasing' incidents', ect... Nothing too surprising or blown out of proportion.... except there was one part that caught me in particular.
"Since last year there's been 98 reported incidents at O'Hare airport with lasers and aircraft, and the FBI is very close to solving an ongoing investigation they've been working on for several months"
To me, this is good AND scares the hell out of me. It's good because (1) I personally am innocent & shouldn't have anything to worry about, right? I know I don't shine lasers at airplanes & dont see HTF I could be accused of anything otherwise. (2) I hope they catch whoever is responsible so I don't have to continously field questions from my family & neighbors.
Now what scares the hell out of me is that everyone around me KNOWS I have high powered lasers. I shoot them all the time, responsibly of course - but just about every damn day. I've never had any lasers confiscated, no warnings or complaints ever from what I've been doing.
I also live across the street from the local police department and they've most certainly seen me shooting lasers before. I know that might shock some people but it is the truth. Whether I've been running my dog around the front yard (not hight powered of course) or focusing mounted lasers on the treelines across the street into the park (definitely high powered) - the local police know who I am AND that I am absolutely the only one in our area with several high powered lasers.... They've seen them several dozen times.
NOW... 1/2 way into this news story I thought about going to the police sometime very soon and introducing myself as 'the guy across the street with the lasers' and telling them that I've seen a few stories on the news about this and basically want to 'register' myself with the village/police dept. By doing this, I feel I would be entering myself into their system as someone who wouldn't be mistaken as someone trying to crash airplanes with my lasers since I was volunteering my information, ect to them instead of being a 'possible culprit'.
Is this a bad idea?
My first concern of course is that they'll ask me to turn in my 'illegal lasers' because they're not legal AND because this is a growing problem. But are they illegal? I understand they're illegal to import, sell or use in any irresponsible manner against trasnporation, people, ect ect. But I also understand it is not illegal to build or own these lasers... Am I wrong? Please enlighten me if I am. I'd love to have as much accurate information on this as possible. Thanks! :beer:
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