Posted on 08/01/2006 1:49:59 PM PDT by looscnnn
A 19-year-old man was arrested after authorities said he shined a laser pointer at a police helicopter.
The bright green laser beamed into the cockpit late Monday night, temporarily blinding the officers, said Melissa Klein, an NYPD spokeswoman.
Police arrested Anthony Pepe a short time later, and charged him with reckless endangerment and criminal possession of a weapon, Klein said.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Try shining it into your own eyes, just to be sure.
see post 58
Stand still while I fire this thing into your eye.
Try spelling it correctly, you might have more luck. Hint: It's LASER.
see post #40 and show me that name/names of real people that have been blinded by a lazer pen
Actually your own search is garbage, because you've misspelled your primary search term. This will yield pages only from people who know little or nothing about LASERs.
I CAN spell urban legend. Were talking about hand held laser pens, and I'm looking for a name of somebody blinded by one.
I CAN spell urban legend. Were talking about hand held laser pens, and I'm looking for a name of somebody blinded by one.
No poster has been able to answere were my challenge of showing me ONE name of a person blinded or killed by a HAND HELD LASER PEN. In the entire world, they can't come up with the name of a single person blinded by a hand held laser pen.
That's not a name!
bttt
Yes, for good reason. Most people with common sense knows you don't point these things at the eyes of humans.
This includes wrestlers in a ring, drivers and pilots.
You haven't been keeping track of the latest green lasers. There's an outfir called Wicked Lasers.
Their high-end 1-watt green laser? They have a video of it lighting a cigarette
See the link on my prior post. Lasers now available go up to a full watt, can pop balloons and light cigarettes
Correction: 300mw
Green Laser Pointer Can Cause Eye Damage EMBARGOED: Hold for release until Monday, May 9 at 3 p.m. CDT Archives of Ophthalmology ROCHESTER, Minn. -- Mayo Clinic ophthalmologists have found commercially available Class 3A green laser pointers can cause visible harm to the eye's retina with exposures as short as 60 seconds. The findings will be published in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, http://archopht.ama-assn.org.
Dennis Robertson, M.D., Mayo Clinic ophthalmologist, conducted investigations with a green laser pointer directed to the retina of a patient's eye; the eye was scheduled for removal because of a malignancy. The green laser damaged the pigment layer of the retina, although it did not cause a measurable decrease in the visual function of the patient's eye. Dr. Robertson believes that longer exposures could harm vision, however. He also warns about potential damage from higher-powered green laser pointers.
"With the use of laser pointers that are more powerful than five milliwatts, there would likely be damage to the actual vision," he says. "Functional damage could occur within seconds."
Dr. Robertson does not advocate against use of green laser pointers; rather, he advocates against their misuse. "Green laser pointers are not a public health hazard at this time, but something people should be aware of," he says. "I'm raising concerns that people should be cautious when using green laser pointers not to point them at someone's eye or face. It's like how you use your knife -- carefully."
Excerpt, more at link.
So much for googling. Try Dogpile.
http://www.megalaser.com/120mw.htm
that is a laser "pen"
notice: "lights matches, pops balloons, burns black rubber/plastic"
120mW is not a toy.
My kids butts would blind them if they mooned the planes.
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