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2014-04-02 -Lurid Crime Tales-

California man who lasered two helicopters gets 14 years

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Posted by Steve White 2014-04-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Green laser? Dolt. Unlike most other spectrum of laser, those are visible to the naked eye, meaning you can see them all the way up, which is "cool" and great for teaching astronomy. But that also means you can see them and trace them visibly back to point of origin.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-02 09:45|| 2014-04-02 09:45|| Front Page Top

#2 see them = see the beam, not just the endpoint.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-04-02 09:46|| 2014-04-02 09:46|| Front Page Top

#3 ..moral of the story: Do NOT laser helioclopters. They can stay around for a while while the fuzz tracks your sorry a$$ down.

Maybe said helioclopter can, in lieu of time in the crowbar motel, drop the perps off in TJ, if you catch my drift..

Posted by Uncle Phester 2014-04-02 13:09|| 2014-04-02 13:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Sort of amazed that we haven't regulated laser pointers so that they have an effective range of 10 feet or so before starting to dispurse into harmlessness. Guess the politicians and control freaks (but I repeat myself) hadn't thought of that.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-04-02 15:24|| 2014-04-02 15:24|| Front Page Top

#5 The ones to really worry about are those which emanate from the aircraft.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-04-02 16:04|| 2014-04-02 16:04|| Front Page Top

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