Lasers pointers and gas knives to be banned
Source: South Australia. Attorney-General. Media Release
"The Attorney-General Michael Atkinson has announced that lasers pointers with an output greater than one milliwatt will be banned to prevent idiots putting the lives of South Australians at risk. “In recent years, there have been scores of dangerous fools misusing high-intensity laser pointers in South Australia and other States,” Mr Atkinson said. “In July last year, a high-intensity laser beam was shone into the cockpit of a Qantas plane as it was landing at Adelaide Airport. In a separate case, 23 year Lanfranco Baldetti last year became one of the first people in Australia to be jailed for deliberately shining a laser light at a police helicopter above Adelaide’s west,” he said."