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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Looks possible might be Puerto Rican by his name
"The FAA reported 6,852 laser incidents in 2020, up from 6,136 in 2019. This is the highest reported number of incidents since 2016."
They should be executed.
They should be executed.
“Guillermo Negron Roque,” is the accused. When my ancestors came to the USA, they Americanized their names to fit in. Would be nice if more recent atrivals would consider that.
Sentence him to 30 seconds of Green laser pointer lasic in each eye. See how he likes it.
To ALL——
I did not see the Fox News story posted at 4:50pm EST when I said
“Along with throwing acid in faces.” in my post earlier today. I just made it up.
The LATER story said a criminal threw “a chemical” into an officer’s face and then threw a lit Molotov Cocktail at a second squad car later.
Worse, many (most?) blacks de-Americanize their names.
Why not have something in the cockpit to deflect it, like a mirror or something?
I have never seen a green laser used for plumbing a wall or doing suspended acoustical ceilings. They are all red. But of course, that is only my experience.
Military Lasers are green. I have seen them.
Ah. Thank you.
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