Laser beams being aimed at airliners?

"Corky Scott"
A man has been arrested and charged for the recent laser beam being
aimed into a landing airplane's cockpit in New Jersey.

See:
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey...6903307830.xml

After reading the article, a couple of things are of interest: The
laser is called a "Jasper Laser" and was bought from a company in
Oregon over the internet. The laser was described as cigar sized and
had a range of up to 25,000 feet.

I dunno about that. This guy was a few miles from the plane. The light may
have been distracting but I really doubt it temporarily blinded the pilots.
Really doubt it. It's a weird colour of green though. Reminds me of the
tube used in old photocopiers. I remember people warning me about leaving
the cover open to copy a book. Like it was some kind of death ray. So
maybe they were spooked. It's a L A S E R, after all. Gotta be very
dangerous... At three miles, you could see the light from this thing. But,
unless it could be held steady, which it can't, it wouldn't represent a
threat. It's going to be *way* less bright than a hit from the popular 4K
Xenon publicity searchlights. Sounds like hype. (Like the pilot who claims
to have permanent retina damage from a laser show system.)

le moo