laserpen aimed at apache helicopter -- arrest followed

[iapyx]

In the news today in the Netherlands:

http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/2087911/aanhoudingen-beschijnen-apache-met-laserpen.html

News is in Dutch.
Can't read Dutch?
Bad luck.

okay, let me help you. Or use google to translate.

roughly it comes down to this:

Eindhoven, Netherlands.
The military police have taken into custody five men who had been shining with a laserpen aiming at an Apache helicopter near Eindhoven Airport.

The Dutch military police got a message Tuesday around 10 pm that an Apache had been aimed at with a laserpen.

The crew of one of the helicopters spotted the offenders with the aid of night vision.

The men were questioned and released later.

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[IlluminatedOne]

Im not suprised they were arrested pointing lasers at a military heli is not not a good idea.

 

[Lightraven]

I'm surprised they were released. We just had another fool get 3 years in prison for doing that.

 

[ubetit]

We've had two incidents in a week in Columbus.


September 21
A 22-year-old Ohio State University student committed a "stupid act" when he aimed a laser into the cockpits of a medical helicopter and a police helicopter from his Downtown apartment early Sunday, his attorney said yesterday. Police cited state law in charging Shapiro with two counts of interfering with the operation of aircraft with a laser. The second-degree felonies are punishable by up to eight years in prison.


On September 14
Two men were arrested on felony charges of pointing a handheld laser into the cockpits of two commercial airplanes approaching Port Columbus and a police helicopter. Dennis J. Smoke, 45, of Fairfield County, and Levi M. Milstead, 19, of Seneca County, face the same felony charges as Shapiro. http://www2.nbc4i.com/cmh/news/crime/article/green_laser_aimed_at_rescue_chopper_arrest_made/23495/

 

[badhorsey]

Maybe, just MAYBE... you don't want to point a laser pen at a helicopter gunship, crammed with detection equipment, piloted by trained observers, and armed to the teeth with missiles...

 

[R@ndom]

Gee. If only the Taliban was this stupid.

 

[badhorsey]

Hah hah - now there's a thought. Ship over a bunch of laser pens with "Danger - do not point at helicopters" written in Afghan on them, and modify missiles to home in on 532nm. That would end the war in about a week.

 

[RyanA]

Hah hah - now there's a thought. Ship over a bunch of laser pens with "Danger - do not point at helicopters" written in Afghan on them, and modify missiles to home in on 532nm. That would end the war in about a week.

LOL, An unintended upgrade to the system so soon? (Kinetic-energy propelled, laser-guided 30mm.. :sick2:)

 

[Sgt. LED]

Maybe, just MAYBE... you don't want to point a laser pen at a helicopter gunship, crammed with detection equipment, piloted by trained observers, and armed to the teeth with missiles...

Big +1

Could get the sentencing over pretty quick though.

 

[greenlight]

I'm amazed that they can somehow find these guys, but Bin Laden is still at large.

 

[Sgt. LED]

Well we just need Bin Laden to stand out in the open shining a laser at military forces and we'd be able to fix that.

 

[Alaric Darconville]

Ship over a bunch of laser pens with "Danger - do not point at helicopters" written in Afghan on them

You'd have better luck using Pashto, Dari, or maybe Arabic.