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FBI adds $10K reward to arrest people responsible for hundreds of laser strikes on airplanes in Washington (www.king5.com)

submitted 10 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if most of these people don’t even know it’s illegal. Store has a sale on laser pointers and a bunch of kids buy them

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I bet the child laser outlet turns their customers in for extra profit.

[–] redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is a poor use of laser pointers. I would never advise this, especially for planes like elon's jet and the surveillance planes flying circles, visible on flight plans, over major US cities. Also don't burn out the sensors in security cameras. That would be naughty.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was on a plane to Cairo a couple of weeks ago, and was shocked by the amount of laserpointers hitting the plane (>20). Is this a new weird trend?

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Maybe. There are a bunch of videos of people doing it to "UFO" on tiktok. And clearly some of those are just planes.