On Saturday night, Kevin Smith, the indie director of Clerks fame, boarded a Southwest Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles (Oakland airport to Burbank airport).

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Adam Gardenhire deliberately pointed the commercial grade green laser at a private Cessna Citation that was landing at the Burbank Bob Hope Airport in California on March 29, 2012.

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The pilot of a Cessna Citation plane preparing to land at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank suffered "vision impairment that lasted for hours" after the incident, according to a statement from the Office of the United States Attorney Central District of California.

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