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AZJonnie

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2. Yeah I wouldn't have complained too much if the idiot had to pay a fine and had to do some community service

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Tue Jan 20, 2026, 01:03 AM

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I don't think there was ever any danger of affecting the pilot by aiming at his eye (too far away, too low-powered, too much high quality glass in the way) but it might've appeared to people in the cockpit to be someone aiming a gun with laser scope at the aircraft so that's where it could maybe create a danger from a panic.

Although from this blurb it doesn't say he aimed it at the cockpit, perhaps it was not, and that's why nothing happened to him?

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