A N.J. man charged with aiming a laser at aircraft and may now face up to 25 years in prison and up to $200,000 is fines under federal anti-terrorism laws (AKA the Patriot Act). Sounds like a great use of the Patroit Act, good thing we are stopping those Laser Wielding New Jersey Terrorists with it. Granted, it was really stupid of him to shine this laser on multiple aircraft on different occasions, but why is the patriot act being used? He is not a terrorist. Does he deserve to be punished, perhaps... but 25 years?
Apparently he was using his daughters green laser(these lasers are much more visible to the human eye than red ones, see this link) to do this with. With headlines like this associating these new green lasers with terrorism, it might not be long before you can't buy one, so if you had planned on buying one, might want to do that soon...(Infact, you could buy one here at ThinkGeek.com!)
A link to the USA Today article.
*Takes off tinfoil hat*
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A very intersting, um … "accident."
Banach managed to shine his green YAG laser into the cockpit of a moving plane at 3,000 feet, temporarily blinding both the pilot and co-pilot. Two nights later, he got lucky enought to hit the cockpit of a police helicopter. Then he lied to the police and the FBI, blamed the second incident on his daughter and finally (after flunking a polygraph) admitted that he'd lied under questioning.
Even Lemony Snicket couldn't match THAT series of unfortunate events.
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I never said it was an accident, just asking why anit-terror laws were being used.
I agree the man is an idiot.
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