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Gotta be not much more then a stiff breeze going through dudes head if he thought he wouldn't be caught. It's a laser, it points right at you dumdum.
So a few things:
There aren’t a lot of situations you can endanger that many lives at one time. This was an incredibly dangerous thing to do.
18 months seems like her got let off insanely lucky.
also a laser powerful enough , can permantly blind someone too.
Yeah and those green lasers are no joke. I use one (with an absolute abundance of caution) to sight my telescope when I’m way out in the middle of nowhere, where there aren’t many flight paths, because you can see it clear as day against the sky. The whole way up. They are wildly powerful, despite being fairly cheap.
I’m constantly paranoid about bringing new people viewing with me because they inevitably want to play with the laser.. I can’t blame them, that and the UV laser I’ve got are very very cool, but they demand respect for both the laser and the laws around their use.
Should be a month for every passenger.
Some 16yo does this.. I can perhaps understand being ignorant of the law and getting a severe warning with community service.
This dipshit's 31.
Physical age all too often bears little resemblance to maturity level. Proof of this is given constantly by the current USA administration.
That's true, but the 31-year-old has had plenty of opportunity to mature and chose not to, while the 16-year-old at least has the benefit of the doubt.
I'm not entirely disagreeing, but just want to point out that some may have challenges most others don't have in maturing. Speaking from personal experience, I was extremely mature in some ways at a young age, but - due to multiple factors I won't go into here - there were some other key areas in which I didn't start maturing until well into my 40s, and the reason I say this is because that was NOT by any real choice on my part.
What this guy did was obviously wrong, but it's only obvious to those of us who fully understand the problems with doing what he did. He may not have had opportunity to come to that understanding, or - for any of a number of possible reasons - it didn't fully sink in.
Ultimately, my point is that we shouldn't jump to conclusions about what an asshole this guy may be without full knowledge of how he came to wind up doing it. We too often assume everybody knows it's a stupid thing to do, but his life circumstances may not have given him the chance to learn what "everybody knows."
I am agreeing with you, but blinding a pilot with a laser is beyond fucked up. And that is something you should know no matter how impaired you are. I'm not saying you should know it because it's obvious if you think about it. But society should teach that. This idiot endangered thousands of lives. Imagine the plane would have crashed into a mall for example. Or the gates in the airport.
Society should do LOTS of things it doesn't - often deliberately due to certain factions within it. Those things are even more destructive, as our current climate crisis is starting to prove.
This guy may just have been a minor side effect of the ever-present power struggle going on within our society.
Probably. Someone out there probably loves the poorly educated 😐
Powerful green lasers do not come with a common newspaper subscription and their shipping boxes are covered in warning labels.
This was a deliberate choice to do wrong.
I can't help but feel you're being deliberately obtuse & judgemental, so I'm done with this circular argument (and yes, I'm aware you're not the person I was speaking to, but you're repeating the same assumptions). It seems to me you have some maturing of your own still left to do.
Good job, fuckhead, enjoy your 18 months.
Was passenger in a plane that got lasered
Was looking into the night, when suddenly something green kept flickering on the ground. Took me a second to realize what it was
Luckily we were quite high and whoever did it was hitting the side of the plane, not the cockpit
Annoyingly, I didn't think about letting the crew know about it
Play stupid games...