Federal Police Buy 1,000 Pairs of Sunglasses to Protect Officers From Protesters’ Lasers

Willamette Week ^ | July 25 2020 | Aaron Mesh

[dowcaet]

Exactly. These are professional agitators, no doubt being bankrolled by Soros Inc!

[redshawk]

So how come it doesn’t slice the earth in half?

[Newbomb Turk]

Oakley, Wiley X, EES and others all make laser safe sunglasses.

[itsahoot]

$125 per pair of sunglasses. That would buy a lot of live ammunition per officer.
I doubt if these cost more than 5 bucks.

[ArmstedFragg]

My idea of effectiveness is tracing these clowns down with drones, grabbing their butts, and sending them away for about 40 years.

[itsahoot]

We have the technology.

Must be kept in a locked safe tho.

[ArmstedFragg]

Fine, Schmine. They did permanent eye damage to some of those officers.

[rfp1234]

[Nifster]

There are lots of manufacturers of laser eye wear

[Nifster]

Just because a mfg makes sunglasses doesn’t mean they are safe for eye protection from lasers. The headline is stupid. The article was clear. The purchase was for laser PPE

[HartleyMBaldwin]

“The headline is stupid.”

It’s from Willamette Week, what were you expecting?

[Ozark Tom]

Collimated light will focus to a tight spot on the retina resulting in an injury. Does not require the energy that an industrial laser requires to cut materials. Likely Antifa are using the green laser pointers implicated in prior attacks upon pilots of commercial aircraft.

[ryderann]

That makes sense. Many thanks.

[Ozark Tom]

https://goflightmedicine.com/aircrew-laser-eye-injury/

[JohnnyP]

Do not fail to communicate.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[Ragnar54]

The problem is identifying the location of the source. A laser beam is invisible unless it passes through a medium like smoke. During the Iraq war, the military developed a system for automatically returning fire (with extreme prejudice) based on locating the muzzle blast by sound. Has the military solved the problem of tracking laser fire?

[sasquatch]

I hope the glasses have integral corner cubes.

[Pollster1]

So how come it doesn’t slice the earth in half?

It did. Good thing we have . . .

[Uncle Miltie]

Anarchists use green pen-lasers to permanently blind officers.

Officers should use M-4 mounted red lasers and return light with lead.