DANGERS. THE BEAMS CAN CREATE. ARE UNDER THE CARPORT NOW, THEY’VE LASER STRUCK US ABOUT THREE TIMES NOW. IT WAS AILPR 11TH. 2020 JEFFERSON COUNTY STORE ONE HELICOPTER WAS ON A MISSION TO RECOVER STOLEN GUNS WATCH AS SOMEONE CROUCHING AT A CARPORT STARTS POINTING A LERAS AT THE CHOPPERS COCKPIT IT COULD CAUSE A CRASH IT DIDN’T IN THAT CEAS THENKFULLY, BUT IT DID DISTRACT PILOT FROM HIS MISSION OF LOOKING FOR THOSE THE SPEUSCT THAT HAD THE STONLE POWER ARMS. ULTIMATELY THE FBI TRACK DOWN THE CULPRIT. GABRIEL MATTHSEW EVENTUALLY PLEADED GUILTY TO AIMING THE LASEROINTER P AT THE HELICOPTER AND WAS RECENYTL SENTENCED TO EIGHT MONTHS IN A FEDERAL PRISON. IT’S ON A PRANK. IT’S A FELONY IT CAN LEAD TO TIME IN JAIL UP TO FIVE YEARS ACCORDING TO FAA RECORDS. THERE WERE ALMOST 7,000 LASER STRIKES IN THE US LAST YEAR ALONE INCLUDING ABOUT 100 HERE INONE INCLUDING ABOUT 100 HERE ALABAMA. THOMAS TRAMEL STARTED FLYING FOR DECADES AGO IN 2018. SOMEONE SHINED A GREEN LASER INTO HIS COCKPIT AS HE APPROACHED THE BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT. CASE WE JTUS SAW IT. WE SAW SOMEONE SHINING A LASER. WHETHER THEY WERE ATTEMPTING TO SHINE ON US, I DON’T KNOW EVEN FROM HUNDREDS OF FEET BELOW LASER POINTERS CAN PRODUCE BLINDING LEVELS OF LIGHT INTO COCKPIT PUTTING PILOTSND A THE PUBLIC AT RISK, FOR EXAMPLE. MORE SAYS WHEN PLANES APPROHAC THE RUNWAY AVIATORS WILL OFTEN TAKET I OFF AUTOPILOT AND IF A LASER BEAMTRIK SES THE COCKPIT AT THE WRONG MOMENT, IT CAN HAVE VERY DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES. SO CLOSE TOAN LDING KIND OF A WORST CEAS SCENARIO, OF COURSE THAT ONE OR BOTH PILOTS COULD BE TEMPORARILY BLINDED WITH THE AUTOPILOT OFFOW L LEVEL AIRPLANE DESCENDING. SO THAT’S THAT’S WOULD BE MY BIGGEST. NCCOERN FAA RECORDS ALSO REVEAL LASER STRIKES HAVE CAUSED MORE THAN 200 PILOT INJURIES OVER THE LAST DECADE ANOTHER REASON. WHY US ATTORNEY PREM. ESCALONA WARNS FUTURE VIOLATORS LIKE GABRIEL MATTHSEW OF THE INCARCERATION CONSEQUENCES. WE DON’T WANT A CRASH SO WE WANT TO PROHIBIT THIS BEFORE IT LEADS TO SOMETHING. THAT WOULD BE CATASTROPHIC ON TOP OF PRISON TIME LASER STRIKE OFFENDERS FACE FINES OF UP TO 11,000 PER VIOLATION. EON INTERESTING NOTE, EVEN THOUGH THE PANDEMIC CUT US FLIGHTS BY MORE THAN HALF LAST YEAR E AND THE NUMBER OF LASER STRIKES IN 2020 WAS 800 MORE TH TANHE YEAR BEFOREND A THE HIGHEST SINCE 2016 AND BASED ON THE VIDEO. JUST HEARING THAT. I’LL TALK ABOUT IT. I MEAN JUST A FEW SECONDS OF THAT.