This isn'tthe first time I have been l@sered either. I get one every other month, pretty much all over europe. So far I have always been lucky and my vision was ok. But a checkcaptain on the jump had more time to look, and he had a headache for some hours and didn't see too well.
It is potentially dangerous and not to be trivialized.
What is terrible, is the difference on what is being done about it.
While being l@sered twice in one approach to BHX (from different locations), our reports led to the first one already being arrested before we even had landed. No paperwork required, just a policeman to meet us upon arrival with a map to show him where the second attack had taken place.
In MUC it takes about 10minutes to fill in a multipage form. They do send out a helicopter at once.
The paperwork and reporting is absolutely necessary to get this out into the public to show that it is a punishable offence.
I've had fake clearances issued on the radio also. We caught it immediatley, but I still find this dangerous, just as the l@ser.