I went looking for that laser story because I seen it on FOX on TV when I was visiting my parents (they have FOX) and it stuck in my mind as a quintessential FOX story.ZombieVampire! wrote:
I'm pretty sure you're right, but that's irrelevant. Fox are responsible for their news stories: if they're sourcing them, they should go for a reliable source.462nd NSP653 wrote:
1.) The laser story as I recall was a re-post of a story investigated and ran by an Australian news agency.
Yeah, it's now illegal to sell laser pointers without a license (or some crap like that).
I wonder would the same people who defend gun law in the US tolerate a ban on laser pens there if FOX told them it will help in the war on terror?ZombieVampire! wrote:
Yeah, it's now illegal to sell laser pointers without a license (or some crap like that).
Probably. Because laser pointers are harmless. God-damn nanny state.
Not that harmless...
A 21-year-old man from Greater Manchester who temporarily blinded a police helicopter pilot with a laser pen has been jailed for four months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers … 475530.stm
A 21-year-old man from Greater Manchester who temporarily blinded a police helicopter pilot with a laser pen has been jailed for four months.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/mers … 475530.stm
Blackbelts are just whitebelts who have never quit.
Tisk tisk.ZombieVampire! wrote:
Probably. Because laser pointers are harmless. God-damn nanny state.
The clueless preaching to the uninformed.