In 2005 while flying over a small city in northern California, our helicopter was repeatedly lasered by a powerful green laser.  It happened to several of our pilots and in total it occurred dozens of times.  It would happen from various locations around this small city.  We tried to apprehend the culprit by using tactical radios on our EMS helicopter to contact law enforcement.  Eventually with our pinpointing the location, the police were able to capture this eighteen year old high school student.  His punishment was a letter of apology.  This all happened before the current outbreak.  It&#039;s a lot easier to hit an aircraft with a laser than a bullet; shining a laser is like spraying a hose, you just move it until you have it on target.  Shooting a helicopter several hundred or thousand feet up is pretty hard.  Having said that in the mid 80&#039;s another EMS helicopter I flew did get hit by a bullet while flying over San Jose.