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Man sentenced for lasering plane with 118 passengers aboard
On July 6, 2012, a 22-year-old man named Jarryd Hector was partying at a home in Auckland, New Zealand, when he decided to shine a green laser light at a Boeing 737 from Christchurch that was preparing to land at the Auckland Airport. The plane was carrying 118 passengers, the New Zealand Herald reported. (arstechnica.com) Mais...
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None of these overseas sentences have been anywhere close to what they would have received in the U.S. We took this type thing to the serious list last year and made a few examples and our incidents have pretty well dropped off. The rest of the world needs to follow the example. This is twice in the last week from NZ and both times have really been a wrist slap.
