View Poll Results: What should the penalty be for shining lasers into airline cockpits?

SpursforSix · 11-13-2015

I thought these were just small toy lazers. That's some serious if those are the type of lazers used. That's wreckless.

Who..the ...has the time to do this....and why...THE ?

It's just another case of the media lumping everything together. I think a lot of it is the small toy lasers or laser pointers or cat toys. But these aren't the ones most likely to up. It's the industrial green lasers that put out the high diameter areas.

resistanze · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by SpursforSix

It's just another case of the media lumping everything together. I think a lot of it is the small toy lasers or laser pointers or cat toys. But these aren't the ones most likely to up. It's the industrial green lasers that put out the high diameter areas.

How about not being a ing re and not pointing any types of lasers at aircrafts, just in case?

SpursforSix · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by resistanze

How about not being a ing re and not pointing any types of lasers at aircrafts, just in case?

I agree with this.

Blake · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by SpursforSix

But these aren't the ones most likely to up. It's the industrial green lasers that put out the high diameter areas.

The pic in the op looks pretty green

SpursforSix · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by Blake

The pic in the op looks pretty green

what's your point?

Blake · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by SpursforSix

what's your point?

You called pilots re s that have trouble landing a plane with a green laser light in their face

SpursforSix · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by Blake

You called pilots re s that have trouble landing a plane with a green laser light in their face

I didn't call them re ed. Quite the opposite. My point was they're not re ed and trying to chase a little red dot all around the cabin.

Blake · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by SpursforSix

so are the pilots assumed to be re s? are they like cats that see a little red dot and they forget how to fly the ing plane?

So we can assume this post is re ed

DMC · 11-13-2015

Originally Posted by Mul roll

While some of them, shoot maybe all of them need a hug certainly this guy does*.
This is why the option of counseling.
*Assuming his defense liarwyer is not making it all up.

UPDATED March 17 2015: Balaguer was charged on March 16 2015 in federal court with aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft. This has a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. FAA officials said they had to redirect traffic in and out of LaGuardia on March 9 to avoid going over the Bronx, where Balaguer and Egan lived. Balaguer’s attorney said the suspect “uses methadone every day and takes medication for bipolar disorder”, and that he was “harmless”: “It was stupidity, not venality.” From the Wall Street Journal.
UPDATED May 5 2015: Balauger pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft. He could face up to five years in prison. The judge said sentencing guidelines call for between 2 and 2 1/2 years. He said sentencing of Balauger would not be routine “Given his psychiatric history, given his apparent lack of any wrongful intent, I can see one set of arguments being made; on the other hand I can see a different set of arguments because of the danger presented,” said the judge. Sentencing was scheduled for September 9 2015. According to the New York Post, Balauger is a disabled ex-heroin dealer who has a history of schizophrenia and left school after ninth grade.

Elehecer Balaguer

Yeah, ex heroin dealer with a mental problem tries to take down airliners. Why didn't he arbitrarily try to provide food and shelter to the homeless? No, it's something horrific. him.