No one in this country should feel unsafe in their workplace, including those in aviation who hold the safety of hundreds of people's lives in their hands at any one time. Those in the emergency services who provide a critical lifesaving service are victims of high-powered lasers; for example, fighting fires in Wānaka the previous year a helicopter was brought down from the sky. It had to land because some idiot down below was pointing a high-powered laser into the eyes of that helicopter operator. The Eagle helicopter has been targeted while fighting crime from the air. Why are we not sending the message to deter these offenders from continuing with these idiotic behaviours and showing these offenders the full strength of the law? We need to deter these dangerous acts.