"The message should go out that people who target helicopters in this idiotic and dangerous way should expect to receive custodial sentences.”
Hear, hear.
Would that there were more people with the evident good sense of the honorable Judge.
The laser blinding issue
received an airing in the NYT's house blog today, and to judge by the tenor of the comments, the seriousness of this issue continues to be lost on the general public.
Of course, if there is eventually an outcome wherein metal is bent and bodies are broken, there will be a vitriolic public outcry that someone should have done something about the problem sooner.