Posted on 08/20/2015 10:46:06 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Vaughan, ON - On Sunday, August 16, 2015, at 1:30 a.m., Air2 was in the area of Highway 7 and Pine Valley Drive assisting uniform officers on the ground, who were responding to a weapons call. While searching for a suspect from the air, the pilot and tactical flight officer were struck by an unrelated bright light source that originated in the area of Jenna Court. The strikes continued as the crew engaged in safety measures. The tactical flight officer used the camera system on Air2 to observe three men standing next to a vehicle at the end of Jenna Court. One of the men was seen pointing a handgun at the helicopter that had a laser pointer on it. Officers with the Canine Unit and Emergency Response Unit responded to the suspect’s location. As they approached, the suspect with the gun fled on foot, hopping a fence, throwing the gun, then attempting to hide in a nearby wooded area. Canine officers were directed to the suspect’s location in the wooded area by officers in Air2. The suspect was arrested by the Canine Unit while trying to hide beneath trees.
Following the arrest, officers with of Air2 were able to locate the handgun, which turned out to be a pellet gun with a laser scope mounted on it.
Charged:
• Nicholas CARANCI, 19, City of Vaughan
Charges: • Mischief Endangering Life • Unlawfully Engage in Behavior that Endangers an Aircraft - Aeronautics Act • Project Bright Light Source into Navigable Airspace - Canadian Aviation Regulation
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Interesting. Might be useful information in a SHTF environment.
Fleer caught by FLIR.
Oh yeah no doubt...
The FLIR technology is pretty impressive these days.
I can only imagine what the active forces have...
That is most likely a Wescam. Kind of state of the shelf in current technology. The next generation of IR is supposed to be going to a slightly different part of the spectrum.
Memo: If you aim a visible-light laser at an aircraft remember to also aim a very powerful IR laser at it to blind the IR camera.
I can only imagine what the active forces have...
Probably been replaced with QUIR.
Dumb sunsabitches.
Throw them naked in the general population at a state pen.
That’ll learn”em.
I’m not sure that would do anything. FLIR “sees” reflected heat more than visible light.
I call BS on the whole episode.
Only the green, or high powered lasers are dangerous.
This guy had a little laser pointer on a bb gun.
The laser was as dangerous as a laser cat toy.
The Great Light North
It looked green to me.
FLIR sees infrared light. An infrared laser would blind it.
The runner disappeared momentarily while jumping the fence. He was behind a tree of some sort...an evergreen... maybe a cedar or fir tree.
Lesson here is to always carry a fir tree with you if firing lasers at cop copter.
Yes. You are correct. Poorly written by me.
“Only green, high powered lasers” was what I was trying to say.
Meaning I don’t think it was the type that could cause eye damage.
I have a very small red laser. My cat loves it.
FLIR uses a microbolometer to detect Long-wavelength infrared.
Diode-based visible lasers do not produce IR light.
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