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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Red glare

So, I am sitting at my desk, inworld, talking about some content creation, and suddenly there is a bright red glare. A bright red laser dot, shining through a crack in the drapes in the middle of the evening, right into my left eye.

I was afraid at first to go to the door, fearing what I might find, but I ultimately opened the door with my partner backing me up. Nothing. Nobody. Walk out and look up and down the street. Not a soul, and not a sound.

Now I can't see properly out of my left eye.

Yes, we called the police. I felt a bit silly about it, but they they took it quite seriously and there is now a patrol car cruising the streets.

It has been about a half hour now, and my left eye is still all blurry.

7 comments:

  1. Anonymous6:17 AM

    huggles

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  2. Anonymous7:45 AM

    You should really get your eye looked at. Lasers can do a lot of damage.

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  3. Anonymous9:33 PM

    bloody damn kids and lazer pointers, tiss the reason most places up here got rid of em in schools and such :S Hopefully it gets better *nods* but then you could become a pirate if ya wanted.... what an image Pirate Tat the swashbuckling SL'er

    *grins*

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  4. It was a form of physical assault, plain and simple. Don't try to explain it away even though its only a laser - lasers have been proven to cause severe eye damage before.

    And yes, I would get that eye checked out. Have the police countersign against the bill if necessary - this is a matter of medicating on the after-effects of a assault.

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  5. HI, I write you because I would like this news to be blog in the SL blog, may you help.

    I am a SL resident and part of the group of "Freedom for the expression in Venezuela" we have a walkout in SL this last sunday 28 of May beacuse the air off of a TV channel in Venezuela by the Goverment by politics reasons, you can see this news here:

    http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=22326
    http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSN2825744120070528

    I have tow pictures of the group in Flickr:
    http://flickr.com/photos/7903702@N03/518664293/in/photostream/
    http://flickr.com/photos/7903702@N03/518660705/in/photostream/

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  6. yorhe:

    Please refrain from using the comments field on a blog to air your partisan concerns.

    You could have gotten a faster response and notice if you had IMed Tateru Nino inworld. I'm not really sure how much slower it'll become being put through this way.

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  7. Anonymous3:45 AM

    Eeh, get the eye checked. lasers aren't meant to go near your eyes. I wish you health and cake.

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