Couple Busted For Shining Laser At Helicopter 863
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."
Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
"Don't lase me, bro!"
Re:Need a bit more background here (Score:5, Funny)
or a shark?
Good! (Score:5, Funny)
Say hi to... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Obligatory (Score:5, Funny)
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Hilarious.
Re:Need a bit more background here (Score:5, Funny)
=Smidge=
Re:Need a bit more background here (Score:5, Funny)
Not a surprise and not new (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Redneck last words (Score:3, Funny)
The correct phrase is:
"Hey, Hold my beer and watch this."
- Roach
Re:And the charge was... (Score:4, Funny)
There is. Welcome to the internet!
A couple? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dumb. Asses. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Filtering (Score:3, Funny)
Nah, I think credit card companies and phishers are responsible for that natural selection goal.
Is this Slashdot? (Score:2, Funny)
Action Shot? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Filtering (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, you can get lasers in at least three colors, probably more. And it's significantly hard to filter out just one wavelength, without filtering neghboring wavelengths as well. Which would mean in this case they would want to filter out green. The color of treetops, and grass, and overall a significant portion of the Earth's surface.
And of course, following that logic, you'd want to filter out the other main colors that lasers come in. Red are extremely common, and blue are just starting to get on the market. So we'll filter both of those out.
You know what would be a good filter at this point? Polished steel. It'd reflect that laser right away, and convently blocks all the colors mentioned.
Re:Need a bit more background here (Score:5, Funny)
And it will take him forever to tell us.
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Under the Bush administration, anything is possible.
When a few wires were cut in a couple of B-boxes some years ago, during a telecom workers strike, the goddamned cops started yelling that, if they caught "the perp", they'd go for "the four-year terrorism enhancement" on his sentence. Cocksucking overchargers.
You can damned well bet that the guy who announced this lunatic decision to the press felt like such a stallion that he afterward went home, bent his old lady over a sawhorse and dicked her ass for a half hour.
Re:What kind of laser? (Score:3, Funny)
This sounds like a great toy for all these inflatable holiday balloons I see on people's yards now.
Re:I had a laser shined at me while driving (Score:2, Funny)
Phft, I could easily kill my wife and kids at any time, you're not unique or special!