Re: Laser Pointers

I guess I have been staying at home too much lately - I only had a vague
notion what a laser pointer was until yesterday when I began reading
some of the posts about them in earnest.

Late yesterday afternoon when I went to pick my 17 year old son up at
school I pulled up to a familiar group of boys and asked them where he
was. As I waited, I noticed that one was playing around with a laser
pointer aiming the thing at girls out on the band line. I asked him (he
was once a former Webelo scout of mine many years ago) if that was, in
fact, a laser pointer (I figured it was, but how else do you open a
conversation with a 16 year old whom you haven't spoken to in years?)

Anyway, I also asked him why he had it... whatever on earth could he
possibly need it for. As we spoke, everyone in the whole group -
perhaps 6 boys - pulled little keychain pointers out of their pockets
and began shooting them all over the place. (It looked like dancing
redbugs on the pavement.) His reply? The only reason they knew of that
they had them was "to annoy the teachers." The irony of the situation
is that his father is one of the most popular teachers in the entire
school system; and this boy WAS aware that the pointers could cause
permanent damage to the eyes.

My son also agreed that the only reason anybody would need one was to
annoy the teachers...

Scary, huh?

Betsy "Beaver" Miller, RN, ASM, etc. etc.


angel bev wrote:
>
> to me the most important reason for not pointing the red light at others
> or at itrems when in a group, is that they are distracting and
> annoying!..........and afterall, a Scout is courteous.

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