In a recent alarming incident, the Phoenix Police Department has arrested 35-year-old William Hill in connection with the use of a laser pointer against a commercial aircraft. The episode unfolded shortly before 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, with reports indicating that Hill was targeting planes as they prepared to land at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport.
“Hey let’s try to blind the people piloting large metal objects hundreds or thousands of feet in the air, potentially causing a crash! I always have the best ideas.”
Driving the Aerial Bacon away with laser pointers only works if you have dozens of people participating. Otherwise you’re just shining a beacon at the people inside, straight from your own hand.
That’s a paddlin’
How do they track down who was shining it?
It’s shockingly easy to get a location on a really bright, stationary, directed beam of light.
If you are pointing with it, it is literally pointing back at you
