Reply #5: What I find interesting is

[CornField]

all of the aircrafts affected thus far seem to be jets of varying sizes. I think there's only been one case of something other than a jet (a helocopter) being struck by a laser. Since many have stated that tracking a jet with from the ground with a hand-held laser would be a difficult, if not impossible, task; why haven't we heard from prop pilots? They are slower and closer to the ground. If it were just kids playing around, why wouldn't they shine the lasers on the Cessna 151?

This whole mess reminds me of when my oldest daughter was coming to me and telling me that her chair was making funny sounds. This went on for several weeks until we heard a big boom from her bedroom. The chair was making funny sounds because she was tilting backwards in it -- and eventually broke it. She eventually fessed up that she knew the chair was going to break and was trying to set us up so we wouldn't discover what she was doing.