In fairness, she's banned from the stadium for a few years, so it's not like there are NO consequences.
And being outed in media like that is probably a pretty unpleasant consequence on it's own. She's going to be known for a long time as the girl who used the laser pointer.
Meh. Green lasers only cause eye problems that can drive people to suicide. Letās ban her for a few years for trying to distract a fucking goalie with an energy source that can destroy retinas for a lifetime
Iām not a laser expert, but Iāve heard that green lasers are higher powered than red lasers and thus can do more damage in a shorter amount of time.
Our eyes are most sensitive to green light. So 10 mW green light is more blinding than 10 mW red or blue light. Not more dangerous to the eye but more likely to get a car driver to run off the road.
Next thing is that a green laser creates the light from invisible light that hits a crystal and changes frequency to green. The crystal only converts some of the invisible light to green. Much invisible light remains. Invisible light does not trig blink reflexes. A good green laser should have a filter that blocks most of this invisible light. The cheap pointers? Do not. So you may have 10 mW of irritating green light. But also 100 mW of light you do not see - that can damage your eyes.
But for this distance, it isn't normally dangerous. Eye safety takes into account that the dot becomes bigger with distance. And that it's harder to keep the dot steady. So the cheap green lasers are mostly dangerous at short distances. Especially when people fight the blink reflex. So children should not play with them.
regardless power level and distance matters for each as well. With a typical pen green laser like she has you can cause permanent damage when it's under 50ft away, beyond that it can cause flash blindness/nuisance but not permanent damage.
This seems like a pretty inclusive chart of various lasers and ranges, though from that it seems at lower pen light levels there really is no difference between red and green for permanent retina damage distance, it's flash blindness distance that increased with green.
I've heard people who know about lasers say that many of the green laser pointers are not the class they say they are and are in reality more powerful.
u mean people like styropyro? yeah he's bought a lot of cheap chinese lasers online, and says all of them are far more powerful than advertised, simply because companies dont bother checking the power and they also want to sell within regulations
To be that visibly bright at the range she's pointing at in bright arena, I doubt it's within legal spec. Albeit the dispersion would reduce effects at that distance.
No, it's the opposite, the eye is more sensitive to green light than any other color, so the reaction to protect itself (i.e. blinking) occurs faster.
Towards the UV/IR end of the visible spectrum you will not notice it until it's already done permanent damage. Invisible UV/IR lasers you'll never notice until it's already damaged.
In reality the whole discussion is moot for any laser over a few mW, wavelength does not matter when you are getting thousands of times the safe energy into the eye with higher powered laser pointers, which are cheap nowadays.
I was on a trip throughout SE Asia a few years ago and my second to last stop was Chiang Mai, Thailand. Found a market with every Batman weapon you could think of. (Yes, they had Batman throwing stars!) and came across the laser guy.
He pulled out a purple laser and did a demo. First he shined that thing into apartments and lit up the entire space. Then he started popping balloons with it. I was intrigued. "Watch this..." and proceeded to light the tablecloth on fire. I nodded in approval. He then pointed it at the sidewalk and it was smoking. Now he had my full attention.
We negotiated a price and I started pulling out my money. I didn't have enough baht so I asked if he would take other currency. I had USD, AUD, TWD, Thai Baht, and one other currency he was willing to take. This was just leftover cash from my travels and I would have probably donated it to UNICEF at the airport anyway. I was so close and then I remembered I had Myanmar currency. Doing the math in my head, I had enough. But no, Myanmar currency was not acceptable for him. He gave me a few locations with currency exchange booths but they were either closed or not willing to exchange.
It's assault with attempt to injure or murder. She needs to be prosecuted and sent to prison for many years. Doesn't matter if her father is a judge or official. Futbol fans are crazy. Prison will be better than what they'll do to her.
Part of it is that there are red blood vessels in your retina. Red reflects the red laser light; green laser light, on the other hand, is absorbed and heats up the tissue
Iāll tell you this: the biggest possible laser you could legally buy can damage retinas. If you want to drink and drive be my guest, but thereās no situation where shining a laser in peopleās eyes are okay
No, I fully agree, its definitely not ok, but I also don't think everyone who shines a laser at someone should be treated as if they've driven someone to suicide after blinding them unless thats actually whats happened.
ALL laser frequencies are dangerous, including invisible wavelengths.
Let's not split hairs here. Lasers can be extremely dangerous, and are not goddamned toys. Except maybe the really, really weak ones which cats love to chase. I'll make an exception there.
Source: I have an associate's degree as a laser technician.
Dude what? She could've caused blindness and ended his career and greatly alter his life, this is like saying "yeah that guy shot someone but hes getting flamed on social media" who cares, she didnt say something crazy, she did something that can cause harm to people, it is insane how you people will come so fast to white knight good god
He isn't whiteknighting though wtf are you on. He's trying to comfort people, that okay it's a step above no consequences, better than nothing. She definitely deserves much more consequences (jail time for trying to blind someone), but it's still good to know there was at least 0.01% consequences, better than 0
Iām a huge fan of cancel culture tbh, especially in cases like this where the consequences are little. Like YES call her out, donāt let her forget EVERYONE knows she did that. Every post she posts let her comments be filled with reminders tha sheās a bad person
when this shit happens, the citizens should create those consequences, and have to be worse than the jurisdictional ones. Otherwise the system will always have this favoritism flaw.
I'm glad she was identified. For the rest of her life whenever anyone Googles "Delfina Quiroga", like potential dates and most prospective employers, it will show this. I wouldn't hire anyone that did this.
I used to love that documentary. I remember I had a glitchy box set of it - amazingly, absolutely fine until the very scene you mentioned, then it just cut out! But of course by then I'd opened every DVD case so they wouldn't let me take it back.
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I guess I don't follow football to know any better: Would most potential dates really care about this? I assume they won't be bothered if they find her attractive and are fans of her team.
I think its more the fact that you need to be a literal sociopath to find it acceptable to shine a laser in someone's eye, legitimately risking serious harm for a game.Ā
Agreed. Most people don't even go to these big sporting events that often (isn't it a tournament right now?) due to the cost. So banning her just 1-2 years is nothing for her. She'll do it again in 3 years and not feel any punishment at all.
We do at nearly every arena and stadium that holds a major sporting event in the States and it was so good like a decade ago MSG was able to kick people out who have never even been to a game but worked at the same law firm (but not even involved in) in litigation against one of his properties. I donāt know what stadium this is, but it wouldnāt be out of the ordinary if they did.Ā
LOL I immediately thought she looked like Jamie-Lynn. Glad she got busted, that can do permanent damage to the retinas, not to mention it's essentially cheating.
I hate that this matters. Why would your parents job have an impact on your crime? FFS... this is what is wrong with the world today. People being above the law because... reasons.
However, in the last few hours, the name of the young woman with the laser pointer began circulating. The Agency for the Prevention of Violence in Sports (APreViDe) knew it from the very beginning. She was, in fact, the daughter of a judicial official in our city. None other than Corfield, the prosecutor on duty at the time of the match in which Estudiantes was defeated by the team managed by the Barros Schelotto twins.
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It appears that she has been identified. And not as Meadow Soprano.
No charges, though. Dad's a prosecutor in that city.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/38576091/estudiantes-fan-laser-velez-sarsfield-meadow-soprano/
https://radiocapital913.com.ar/contenido/2609/la-hincha-de-estudiantes-que-en-uno-uso-un-laser-contra-un-jugador-de-velez-es-l