Freaks with laser pointers

seamus · 13-08-2012 11:06AM #1

Right, so last week a couple of times we spotted a green dot/line moving around the wall of our sitting room, it was clearly a green laser pointer, but we assumed it was just some kids outside messing around with it.

Then around midnight on Saturday night, watching TV with the missus, it appears on the wall of the house next door, blatantly being pointed in through the windows and they've a young baby in the house.

So we take a look outside, and cos it's dark we can now trace the beam all the way back to its source, coming from the back garden of a house on a different road, slightly higher than our houses. Could still be kids at nearly midnight, but then we see the person moving around and going into his own house, and it's a man at least in his twenties! Then he goes out and starts pointing at the houses on his own road.

W.T.F.

I can understand someone getting a new toy and just waving it around once. But this is some freak blatantly pointing it into houses on a number of different occasions. Who does that?

Obviously if I see him doing it again I'm going to go around and ask him WTF he's doing, but I'm really looking for the AH answer here. Blast him with a laser beam? Burn down his house?

Jesus Shaves · 13-08-2012 11:08AM

Call around to his house and pull out all his teeth

hardCopy · 13-08-2012 11:08AM

Best leave him be, he's probably calibrating his sniper sight.

OU812 · 13-08-2012 11:08AM

Attach laser to head of shark, break in & put shark in toilet.

That'll learn him.

Washington Irving · 13-08-2012 11:08AM

Green lasers are illegal, call the gardai. That'll learn him

Sauve · 13-08-2012 11:08AM

Buy six laser pointers.
Ruin his day.

Mr Benevolent · 13-08-2012 11:09AM

It's very annoying, but not dangerous. Now if he were to stand on the threshold of Runway 28 at Dublin Airport and shine the light into the cockpit of landing planes, that's be dangerous. Or even drivers. Believe me, there are much more antisocial things he could be doing with it.

I_Mr_Euphony · 13-08-2012 11:10AM

Next time you see it in your window, get a big mirror and send it right back at him.

mikemac1 · 13-08-2012 11:11AM

Report it

The garda helicopter was targeted last year by a similar waster so inform the local station, they'd love to get anyone like this

seamus wrote: »

I'm really looking for the AH answer here.

Let the local 17 stone sergeant give him a well deserved beating

Dyr · 13-08-2012 11:11AM

Many year's ago some tool was pointing a red laser pointer at my face from his house and I went up to his door to have a word. He denied it down to the ground and it turned into an "oh yes, you did/oh no I didn't" argument. Probably not my brightest idea but I felt it needed to be done, plus i was walking my two german shepherds at the time so I had the moral upper hand

Maybe buy your own laser pointer and return fire next time :pac:

Ghandee · 13-08-2012 11:12AM

Well, when he pointed it in your sitting room, it interfered with you're private life, and encroached on your private property.

That IMO, gives you a perfectly justifiable reason to politely knock in on him, kindly ask him not to do it again, and warn him that if he doesn't heed your 'advice' you will be asking the Garda their opinion on the whole thing.

If i understand right, they're illegal in this country anyway (open to correction on this).

Can't be fairer than that.

syklops · 13-08-2012 11:13AM

Could be a home made long range microphone. You can make one cheaply with a Light dependent resistor and a laser pointer. Thats the only explanation I can give.

I can't defend the indefensible. There are a lot of sad, mad and just phucked up people out there.

Bajingo · 13-08-2012 11:14AM

Burn his retinas with your own high powered helium argon laser.

Washington Irving · 13-08-2012 11:14AM

Ghandee wrote: »

If i understand right, they're illegal in this country anyway (open to correction on this).

Can't be fairer than that.

Red ones are ok. Green, blue etc are not

JamieKCCO · 13-08-2012 11:21AM

Make sure all your neighbours know it's him who's doing it

Then get your own laser and go crazy

Dr Strange · 13-08-2012 11:22AM

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Green lasers are illegal, call the gardai. That'll learn him

This is interesting. Particularly, because they (green ones) are on offer on adverts.ie:

http://www.adverts.ie/1517512
http://www.adverts.ie/1912662 (this one even says "can hit planes")
http://www.adverts.ie/1785986
http://www.adverts.ie/1665703
http://www.adverts.ie/1129843

notnumber · 13-08-2012 11:22AM

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Red ones are ok. Green, blue etc are not

Why whats the difference? i.e why red ok but not blue/green

garv123 · 13-08-2012 11:23AM

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Red ones are ok. Green, blue etc are not

You can use these here in Ireland for hunting 100% legally so I dont see how a green smaller laser would be illegal.

crazy cabbage · 13-08-2012 11:24AM

Find out what tv he has an buy a remote that will work for it. Keep changing the channel on his tv and turning it on in the middle of the night :cool:

johnnyskeleton · 13-08-2012 11:26AM

1) Go to curtain shop

2) ???

3) Profit

Captain Chaos · 13-08-2012 11:29AM

notnumber wrote: »

Why whats the difference? i.e why red ok but not blue/green

Because the green and blue lasers are more powerful than red. You can get away with looking directly into a red laser source without damaging your eyes. But the green and blue are like staring directly at the sun but you don't feel the damage as your eyes don't feel pain. It's how they can slice your eye open in laser eye ops and you don't feel at thing.

Washington Irving · 13-08-2012 11:31AM

notnumber wrote: »

Why whats the difference? i.e why red ok but not blue/green

On phone so the link might not work:
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/employment_and_social_policy/health_hygiene_safety_at_work/c11151_en.htm#KEY

At the bottom of that page it gives the keys points.

johnnyskeleton · 13-08-2012 11:34AM

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

On phone so the link might not work:
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/employment_and_social_policy/health_hygiene_safety_at_work/c11151_en.htm#KEY

At the bottom of that page it gives the keys points. Red lasers have a wavelength between 100nm and 1nm so are legal

So let me get this straight:

Green and blue lightsabers can kill, but the red ones pass harmlessly through any obiwans they touch?

o1s1n · 13-08-2012 11:37AM

SaulGoode9 wrote: »

Red ones are ok. Green, blue etc are not

I remember a little while back there was some clarification received from the DOJ regarding laser pointers and Airsoft (as people were using their on their gear) -

Lasers that meet the following criteria are legal in Ireland:

- lasers of less than 5 milli Watts
- in the light frequencies of 630 to 680nm

So this automatically rules out anything which is not red. I know you can get some green under 5mw, but I think they fall outside the legal light frequencies.

Jesus Shaves · 13-08-2012 11:38AM

It doesn't matter what colour they are, it matters how much power they output
, not sure of the limit for Ireland but its very low

Edit:What Oisin said

JohnMarston · 13-08-2012 11:41AM

I bring my red pointer to my grandmothers house every christmas and watch the cats chase the dot.
Its a great laugh

eth0 · 13-08-2012 11:45AM

Seen some muppet pointing them at the train i was on once.

Once I shined one onto the screen of some young lad in an internet cafe in south korea. the lad came out after and chase me but he didn't go very fast. probably the only exercise he got all year

danniemcq · 13-08-2012 12:40PM

sadly the green ones are the best for stargazing.

the ability to point out objects in the sky with them is really handy

anncoates · 13-08-2012 12:44PM

Have a friendly discussion about the error of his ways that ends up with him eating the laser gun.

Duggy747 · 13-08-2012 12:55PM

I see there's 70% off laser pointers on the advert below this thread :pac:

westendgirlie · 13-08-2012 12:57PM

JohnMarston wrote: »

I bring my red pointer to my grandmothers house every christmas and watch the cats chase the dot.
Its a great laugh

We have loadsafun watching the dogs chase the red one. We usually guide the light along the floor and behind a unit then the dogs stand at the unit for about 15 minutes waiting for light to come out

I am easily amused

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