Having experienced only one green beam shot at me, and knowing how blinding that is, I still can't imagine how bad it must have been for that crew in the Egyptian heli. Watching the Egyptian protests with the shear number of people with green laser pointers being used maliciously against people, cameras ,police helicopters etc, and considering the number of times they are used elsewhere, be it at a football match, drunk youths in city centers, or at landing aircraft, it must surely now be the responsible thing by all authorities around the world to ban these things. They are too cheap and readily available, and only being used for hostile purposes