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January 3rd, 2014 
Awake Goy Unless you have a really good reason to own a laser pointer (being a Giz-loving geek doesn’t count, apparently), you should probably avoid using / carrying / showing off anything that points a laser beam if you live in NSW (or WA).
Yesterday the NSW government passed legislation making it possible for police to search anyone the believe may be carrying a laser pointer, and unless you have it for a legitimate reason (you’re a teacher, an architect or a bounty hunter something similar), you could face fines of up to $5,000.
What’s more, class three and four laser pointers are now classified as prohibited weapons, and if you’re found with one of those babies, you could be rattling chains in your very own orange jumpsuit for up to 14 years.
The crackdown has happened because of a recent spate of jackasses pointing the lasers at commercial aeroplanes. As the NSW Premiere, Morris Iemma put it:
“It only takes a fraction of a second for a pilot to become
temporarily blinded and that could have catastrophic consequences.”
MeNotYou Guest
June 23, 2008 5:15 pm
Bring down a 747, HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Any commercial jet liner is entirely capable of unmanned flight, it’s called auto pilot, and it CAN safely land a plane. The pilots are there as a backup in case the computers somehow screw up. And to also to pacify travelers that something with a heartbeat is in control. (humans still don’t trust computers)
Just because it’s banned in Australia doesn’t mean it won’t (as they claim) potentially affect an aircraft in other places of the world. And if it were SOOOOO damn dangerous, the “terrorists” would be using them to bring down planes already.
Don’t be bloody stupid people! Stop your knee jerk reactions and think things through. Instead of letting bureaucrats constantly rush restrictive legislation through parliament. That’s how the government gains control of you, through panic and fear. You let them pass any law they see fit under the guise of terrorism.
Has anyone else noticed it’s always those highly visible green lasers that are being aimed at jets?
Anyone who even entertained the idea of bringing down an aircraft with a laser wouldn’t do it with a bright green homing beacon attached to their attack. InfraRed lasers are invisible to the naked eye, travel further and won’t give away their position.
The bright green laser is for maximum media impact. To scare the crap out of people living under the flight path, and to make a demon out of anyone interested in lasers.
Social engineering at it’s best! I can no longer legitimately use my laser for astronomy now (thanks Australia), in fear that a neighbour will ring the cops claiming i’m trying to bring down an aircraft when in actual fact, i have my green laser pointed in the direction of Venus. Three guesses who’s story the cops will believe.
They spend mega billions on every other security (control) measure under the sun, why not a one way reflective film over the cockpit window??? It’s cheap, effective, and doesn’t require restrictive laws to be created in over 220 countries world wide. We have the technology to install cockpit window film that reflects the intense light of which lasers produce. Why have they not installed this in aircraft already?
The law makers are going to want to ban the sun next, cause it gets into the pilots eyes. And anyone caught with the sun gets a million dollar fine.
The lasers pose more threat to speed cameras being fried, the police and the military than any aircraft. And that’s the real reason they want to ban them.
Do you think laser attacks on speed camera’s would generate any sympathy, let alone a reaction from the public??? Also, imagine 2500 people at an angry pro civil liberties rally. And all with 300mw lasers! Now you understand the REAL reasons they want to ban them. And it has absolutely nothing to do with aircraft…
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Daish GuestSeptember 13, 2008 4:22 amMeNotYou is right this is a joke is there nothing better they can do then to make up fake reasons to have something banned sure that 1 guy probaly used it on a helicopter that was flying very low but there is no way you can hit any type of plane that is in the air unless your using some kind of miltary targeting equipment so that your not doing it by hand
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sandman GuestMay 11, 2011 5:52 amMeNotYou absolutely right.
the australian government has always been a joke, and you wonder why people dont take them seriously.
Fucking scaremongering people into believing anything and then calling the truthsayers liars for saying otherwise.
Here we have another technological marvel of our age taken away from us, and we’ve yet to realise that we’ve been not compromised our toys pastimes and gadgets, but silently our freedoms.
OFC ppl will say but only a terrorist would want a laser…
I never heard of fucking terrorists before 9/11 and even then we hardly had to give a shit.
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Lasers are not flashlights and cannot blind anyone like a car headlight does. It is such a tiny narrow beam, it has no effect for blinding anyone.