My wife and I own a business, and I received a call from our alarm monitoring company last night, around 10:00, that the alarm had gone off. One of the motion sensors had picked up on some movement inside the store.
I told the alarm company to go ahead and call the police, and I'd head down to the store.
Had I been thinking, I would have grabbed my M6 - but I was in a bit of a hurry and just grabbed my E2DL (since I keep it on my keychain).
By the time I arrived at the store, the police officer was sitting in his car, in the parking lot in front of the store, waiting for me to arrive.
He had already gone around the front and back of the store and confirmed that nothing seemed out of place - there were no signs of forced entry. The motion sensor that had picked up movement and tripped the alarm was in a back room of my building, and somebody could only have gotten into it via forced entry...so both the office and I were pretty sure nobody was in the building.
Even so, we both went in to check things out. We entered from the front of the building, but my light switches are all in the very back, so it was dark. The officer and I both, in complete unison, grabbed and activated our flashlights. His was a standard 3-cell incandescent Mag light, and mine was the SureFire E2DL.
As both of our lights hit the darkness, he immediately looked at mine and said "Wow!". His big club, of course, produced a fraction of the light as my small light that's the size of my open hand.
After we had made it to the back of the store, and confirmed everything was as it should be and that nobody was (or had been) inside the store, the office asked, "Can I see that?" I handed him my light and he seemed giddy at its size and power.
He handed it back with an affirmation that he was going to get one for himself!
I told the alarm company to go ahead and call the police, and I'd head down to the store.
Had I been thinking, I would have grabbed my M6 - but I was in a bit of a hurry and just grabbed my E2DL (since I keep it on my keychain).
By the time I arrived at the store, the police officer was sitting in his car, in the parking lot in front of the store, waiting for me to arrive.
He had already gone around the front and back of the store and confirmed that nothing seemed out of place - there were no signs of forced entry. The motion sensor that had picked up movement and tripped the alarm was in a back room of my building, and somebody could only have gotten into it via forced entry...so both the office and I were pretty sure nobody was in the building.
Even so, we both went in to check things out. We entered from the front of the building, but my light switches are all in the very back, so it was dark. The officer and I both, in complete unison, grabbed and activated our flashlights. His was a standard 3-cell incandescent Mag light, and mine was the SureFire E2DL.
As both of our lights hit the darkness, he immediately looked at mine and said "Wow!". His big club, of course, produced a fraction of the light as my small light that's the size of my open hand.
After we had made it to the back of the store, and confirmed everything was as it should be and that nobody was (or had been) inside the store, the office asked, "Can I see that?" I handed him my light and he seemed giddy at its size and power.
He handed it back with an affirmation that he was going to get one for himself!
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