Nearly half a million Egyptians took to Cairo's Tahrir Square Sunday, demanding President Mohamed Morsi leave office exactly one year after he was elected. As military helicopters flew overhead, demonstrators used laser pointers to paint them in a multi-colored shower of light:
It's unclear if the laser pointers were an act of civil disobedience or something more violent: Laser pointers can temporarily blind pilots, putting them in mortal danger. An American teenager was
recently sentenced to 2.5 years in prison after aiming a laser pointer at a plane for this exact reason. I also have a laser just like the one the people are using in this picture.
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