Reply #6: Cmon now...

[KareBear]

When I got my first laser pointer I thought it was the coolest thing since sliced bread. We used to shoot it out of the window of the college dorms and make people think they were bing sniper scoped. You hit a license plate or traffic sign with it and it would light up like a road flare due to reflectivity.

My point is that this guy could have been playing around NEVER thinking that he was going to cause problems with the planes themselves. Most people just don't understand the properties of lasers.

Heck where I grew up people would shoot their 22 rifles at planes for kicks. Yes that was way wrong, and yes I grew up in backwoods nowhere, but they weren't really trying to bring down the planes.

They should treat this like an educational thing for the public. Not as some insane criminal mastermind.

"Don't shoot guns off in the air at New Years, the bullets do come down" and "Don't shoot lasers at planes, they can actually see them". We need one of those "And now you KNOW!" moments with a celebrity on network tv now lol.