What is bizarre is that in New Zealand a f@cktard with the IQ of a dead jellyfish was caught and arrested for shining a laser into the cockpits of aircraft about to land at Wellington airport. He was doing this when the aircraft were approx. only hundreds of metres from landing.
He ended up before a judge who moderately threw the book at him; no it did not entail jail time but was sending a strong message. Sadly this dickwads lawyer appealed and a new judge felt that the sentence was doing some harm to this poor misguided individual - after all its not as if anything happened or he shot the aircraft or anything did he - and reduced it to a very minor fine.
The judges need regular competency tests like pilots.