Posted on 04/17/2021 1:28:44 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ORLANDO, Fla. — Temporarily blinded Saturday morning by a laser pointed at him from 1,000 feet below, a Florida Highway Patrol pilot alerted other aircraft about the flying hazard then landed his plane and began an investigation that led to the arrest of a Kissimmee man at a multi-story construction site.
Guillermo Negron Roque, 47, was jailed pending a charge of pointing a laser light at a pilot, a second-degree felony.
The bright flash of green light startled FHP pilot J.C. Pollock as he was flying west of Interstate 4 about 6:30 a.m.
“At first I thought I was about to have a mid-air collision with another aircraft and the color green I was seeing was a navigational light from another aircraft,” Pollock wrote in a report. “The flash of green light was so bright that I temporarily experienced blindness.”
After refocusing, Pollock traced the laser’s light trail that had flooded his cockpit to a work site at the Dr. Phillips Academic Commons on West Livingston Street, part of the University of Central Florida’s downtown campus. According to his report, Pollock landed at Orlando Executive Airport, hopped into his patrol car and drove to the area where he believed the beam had originated.
A construction supervisor confirmed he had seen someone at the site using a laser but was unsure who it was.
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PING!
This should be considered attempted murder.
An example needs to be made of idiots who this sort of thing. It isn’t the pilots life being endangered it is the people on the ground who may get killed if the illegal actions result in a crash.
There should be a high visibility trial and the maximum sentenced imposed. Perhaps that will deter the next moron who thinks doing this is funny.
This guy will be tried, but Antifa who blind Federal agents will walk.
I wonder if the guy wasn’t using the laser to scribe a line on a wall or some thing like that . Maybe forgot to turn it off?
Uhh this happened 2 months ago
Industrial lasers have a range safety and green lasers are rarely used for measuring, line demarcation, levelling, etc., because they are considerably more expensive and no more useful than red lasers.
Nah, he was seen..
Well then hang his ass...
This is absolutely intolerable. Against police officers during looting riots or plane pilots or anyone at any time.
Along with throwing acid in faces.
Being soft on crime ( Dems ) has led to this and just has to be reversed.
Chinese:
Feb 28, 2020 — The US Navy said Thursday that a Chinese military warship fired a laser... at cockpits, temporarily blinding pilots.
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JOSEPH TREVITHICK Article @FranticGoat reprinted in The Drive:
The U.S. Navy’s official Instagram account has issued a curious warning of sorts informing the Chinese military that it doesn’t want to “play laser tag” with it in the future. This comes a day after reports emerged that a People’s Liberation Army Navy destroyer had aimed a laser beam at a Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft flying in the Philippine Sea earlier this month.
The Navy has now confirmed that the incident in the South China Sea took place on Feb. 17, 2020, and that it involved a P-8A from Patrol Squadron 45 (VP-45), which is headquartered at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida.”
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Remark was made on Instagram from US Navy:
“You Don’t Want To Play Laser Tag With Us” After Pacific Incident”
Yep....get a load of his name...
The article didn’t provide a picture of the creep.
Not a green laser. Those kinds of things use red lasers.
Title 18 USC Section 39A (U.S. Criminal Code)
§39A. Aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft
(a) Offense.-Whoever knowingly aims the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, or at the flight path of such an aircraft, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Laser Pointer Defined.-As used in this section, the term “laser pointer” means any device designed or used to amplify electromagnetic radiation by stimulated emission that emits a beam designed to be used by the operator as a pointer or highlighter to indicate, mark, or identify a specific position, place, item, or object.
(c) Exceptions.-This section does not prohibit aiming a beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft, or the flight path of such an aircraft, by-
(1) an authorized individual in the conduct of research and development or flight test operations conducted by an aircraft manufacturer, the Federal Aviation Administration, or any other person authorized by the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct such research and development or flight test operations;
(2) members or elements of the Department of Defense or Department of Homeland Security acting in an official capacity for the purpose of research, development, operations, testing, or training; or
(3) by an individual using a laser emergency signaling device to send an emergency distress signal.
(d) Authority To Establish Additional Exceptions by Regulation.-The Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, may provide by regulation, after public notice and comment, such additional exceptions to this section as may be necessary and appropriate. The Attorney General shall provide written notification of any proposed regulations under this section to the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives, not less than 90 days before such regulations become final.
Made an arrest and hopefully beat the holy ******g snot out of someone, while any possible witnesses nearby were looking the other way.
“Nuh-uh, not me, I didn’t see nothin’.”
I looked for it without success so far.
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