Not quite the same, but just as dangerous....
A while back, on a night flight into Napa county airport (California), some feckwit was sitting approximately 1 mile off the end of the runway with a pretty high powered white strobe light. Totally destroyed my night vision and forced a go-around (Piper Navajo).
Not particularly dangerous I guess, but could have been a lot worse! The tower was closed at the time, so all I could do was report it to Oakland center....don't know if anything was done about it at that time. So.....guess it's not just the 'high tech' ...thingies......(don't want to run afoul of the 'L' word).
