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This is my public service announcement to the idiots who have decided
to shine green laser pointers into the cockpits of airplanes either
taking off, landing or ascending to cruising altitude. Stop doing it!
You could kill hundreds of people and I or some of my friends might be
one of them. For those of you who don' know, when a laser of any
colour is shone into your eyes, it can take the optic nerve a minute
or two to recover normal vision and depth perception to say nothing of
being able to see the colours of warning lights on the instrument
panel. According to Government of Canada data, these incidents have
occurred 46 times in 2008 alone. The good news is, none of these
victim aircraft suffered any technical problems that would put anyone
at risk. To illustrate, anyone using an optical mouse has probably had
the red laser light shone into their eyes after putting in new
batteries. You will see spots for a very long time. Repeat exposure
may permanently damage the eyes which is not good for anyone in
general and especially if you are pilot. So, to the morons who think
this is fun, I will remind you that if you ever have to fly, you
better hope that none of your friends fl
fash the aircraft you are on.