{"id":2797,"date":"2005-01-02T23:22:30","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T03:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/01\/02\/careful-where-you-point-that-thing\/"},"modified":"2005-01-02T23:22:30","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T03:22:30","slug":"careful-where-you-point-that-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/02\/careful-where-you-point-that-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Careful Where You Point That Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4401'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">\n<p align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/laserpen.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"156\" align=\"left\"><em>Teachers of America, beware! You<br \/>\n        may be unwittingly armed with a dangerous terrorist weapon. We have removed<br \/>\n        the batteries from our own laser pointer, just in case&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">\n        PARSIPPANY &#8212; The attorney of a Lake Parsippany resident questioned by<br \/>\n        authorities about his suspected use of a laser light said Saturday her<br \/>\n        client was in the &quot;wrong place at the wrong time.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>David Banach was showing his daughter a common laser pointer that he had purchased<br \/>\non the Internet, said attorney Gina Mendola Longarzo. Longarzo said she met with<br \/>\nBanach on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;At one moment he was in the backyard playing with his daughter,&quot; said<br \/>\nLongarzo, &quot;and 10 minutes later 12 police cars descended and he was whisked<br \/>\naway by authorities and interrogated until 4 a.m.&quot;<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyrecord.com\/news\/articles\/news2-laser.htm\"> Daily Record<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teachers of America, beware! You may be unwittingly armed with a dangerous terrorist weapon. We have removed the batteries from our own laser pointer, just in case&#8230; PARSIPPANY &#8212; The attorney of a Lake Parsippany resident questioned by authorities about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/01\/02\/careful-where-you-point-that-thing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}