Where do these people get these items? Are they high-tech or simply the laser pointers you find in classrooms or lectures?
I ain't saying where ya get 'em, for fear of needing to have to fly someday... and knowing how dumb the majority of this country's populace has become lately. :)
They are toys.
from yahoo search
N.J. man charged with shining laser at airplane
"..NEWARK - The pictures on the Web site for the company selling the Jasper laser pointer show a bright green beam of light ascending into the night sky. Use the cigar-shaped gizmo to point out stars, the Web site says.
A Parsippany man who bought the pointer and, according to authorities, shone it into the sky above his house is facing 25 years in federal prison for temporarily blinding two pilots during their approach to Teterboro Airport last Wednesday.
David W. Banach, 38, appeared before a federal magistrate Tuesday on charges that he violated a portion of the Patriot Act when the laser he was using in his back yard struck a chartered Cessna Citation owned by Atlantic Aviation Flight Services of Teterboro...."
A friend of mine developed a pulse laser in 1968 at the University of Denver that could punch a hole through a razor blade a 250 yards.
Connect the technology dots.