A long page of human drama at https://laserpointersafety.com/sentences/sentences.html, e.g.: "Suspended sentence, rehab for 55-year-old who aimed a laser pen at a helicopter after it interrupted his audiobook".
The US military doesn't even use laser pointers much any more. Maybe for pointing at a map during a briefing, but not for pointing at the enemy. Single-pulse range finders, yes. Continuous laser designators are "Hi, I'm an enemy, kill me now." They were more popular in the 1980s before everybody else got IR sensing technology.
in preparation for the shift to projected energy weapons,
"If you see light or feel heat from an unknown source"
the whole thing reads a little like a paranoia trigger.
Someone was harassing me for < 10 minutes with an illegally-bright green laser once from an apartment tower. I was busy protecting my eyes, so I didn't dare try to see what unit was doing it. I pointed one of my home security cameras at the tower to ID which unit it was and have evidence. They never did it again though. I was a little disappointed because I was ready to go to war.
I dug around on this web page and found outlinks to:
The "Stop Gangstalking Awareness Group", and especially this page about "Understanding Neuro Weapons." LaserPointerSafety has not evaluated the accuracy or usefulness of this group or their information. (Thanks to M.D. in July 2024 for bringing this to our attention.)
These are kind of kooky links: https://web.archive.org/web/20240509210655/https://stopgangs...
Phish has a helpful song explaining how to deal with laser ahrassment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YpLTljxq6M&list=RD2YpLTljxq...
On a side note, this site reacts to window size changes (phone rotation portrait <-> landscape) with a really nice animated shuffle of the content. It's more visible on the "Sentences" page linked in another comment [0]. I've not seen that before, and certainly wasn't expecting it on a site that is otherwise pretty no-frills.
Some statistics from the sentencing page:
Median age 27 Male: 98% Female: 2% Youngest: 19 Oldest: 64 Median prison time: 12 months Median probation time: 24 months
All of the above were Copilot inferred. Don't know why I need to know the above, though. :-)
More dangerous are infrared lasers.
Someone pointed a laser at someone.
...don't read to much https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valis_(novel)#Synopsis
It's fascinating how much of this has to be devoted to "You are probably not seeing a laser. You are probably not being harassed by an organized group"
People who have delusions or people deep into their conspiracy theories have an insane level of insistence. They will refuse to accept "That's just not how that works" as an answer. It's scary.
what's up with the submit date? @dang
great instructions for AI to learn
My backyard neighbor installed a backup generator with a very annoying green led that shines right through my kitchen window. I hate HOA's and I don't live in one but I really lost sleep about this. One night I just went a back there and put a small green sticker on the plastic case. Still shines on but the annoying glow shines elsewhere. Inspection passed.