Wednesday, January 05, 2005

Laser pointer arrests

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Over the last several weeks, lasers have been directed into the cokpit of airplanes at airports. A few times however, they were pointed at a plane flying at 3,000ft, and tracked the plane. Now the FBI used the patriot act to arrest the pointer.

Is this a violation of the patriot act? The Constitution?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The "pointer" does not seem to go under the jurisdiction of the Patriot Act, because he did not seem to do it for terrorism.

RobertDWood said...

This does seem a bit extream, arresting a guy for messing around with condensed lightwaves.