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Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter

Posted by kdawson on from the do-not-look-directly-into-laser-beam-with-your-remaining-eye dept.

coondoggie sends us to another Network World piece, this one about a couple charged with shining a green laser into the cockpit of a police helicopter. The FBI and the US attorney's office charged the California couple under a federal statute. They could end up paying a $250,000 fine and doing 20 years of jail time. "The complaint states that on November 8, 2007, at about 10:55 p.m., a green laser beam illuminated the cockpit of a Kern County Sheriff's Department helicopter, which was flying at 500 feet during routine patrol in Bakersfield, California. When the light hit the cockpit, it disoriented the Kern County Sheriff's pilot, causing pain and discomfort in his eyes for a couple of hours, the FBI said in a statement."

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  1. In a word by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    bullshit

    pain and discomfort for several hours? yeah, right. Did it also cause him permanent emotional scarring and mental anquish? Or give him a phobia of green light as well?

    overstating the injury/damages to get the charges to stick

  2. let me get this straight by blhack · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    These people are being punished, not because they actually caused a problem, but because they COULD have caused one? that problem being the helicopter crashing?

    That makes perfect sense!

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  3. Re:Filtering by friend.ac · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can't the develop condoms that would filter out those particular idiots as well?

  4. Re:Damn cops by TrollMaster+9000 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Its time the american people grew some balls and stood up together to end this shit.

    No, the American people need to start kicking the shit out of fucktards like you.

    But they won't, because fucktards like you don't matter. All you poseurs do is post your bullshit on the internet and get dis-invited from family get-togethers.

    Seriously, you're about as effective as a toy poodle locked in grandma's Oldsmobile.