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Comment by chvid | Hacker News Reader

You try pointing a laser-pointer at a police officer around here and you will be lucky if you are just arrested.

> "Officers later searched his bag and found the pointers. Fong is heard saying he bought them for star-gazing."

This is from the article. The pointers were in his bag. He didn't point at anyone. Your comment implied that he did, and that's factually incorrect.

From another article too: > Chief Inspector Chow Hok-yin from the organised crime and triad bureau said officers approached Fong because he was acting suspiciously, but he ran away. Officers chased and caught him, and found 10 torch-like laser pointers, each 18cm (7 inches) long, in his plastic bag.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-and-crime/article/30...

Sure. But the reason why the police is looking for laser-pointers is kinda obvious isn't? I am merely pointing out that what you kids are getting away in Hong Kong would have been met with a much stronger reaction elsewhere.

You seem to carry a lot of unwarranted assumptions with you. For example, you assume my age and call people "you kids", despite not displaying enough maturity in your own comments. You assume the reason the police is looking for laser pointers is obvious. It's actually not. Depends on the side you ask, the answer could be that the police are just looking to frame the student, or that the student pointed the lazer pointer at someone, then hid it in his bag. I suggest you take a step back and assume fewer things. It will help you to be more rational and less emotionally charged.

It's not obvious, they've been using them to disable cameras facial recognition.

According to the article, he had them in his bag and there's no evidence of him using them.

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