What's the most unusual/stupidest/weirdest thing you've done with your flashlight?

[Vortus]

Unusual
headlight popped on the way to Knoxville across 40. Stopped at a Wally world, picked up a couple floating lantern type lights, duct taped to the headlight and off I went.

Stupidest
losing my modded jb cle

Weirdest
Using a ROP to heat up some Krystals

 

[Captainbeaky]

Using the maglite to hammer in tent pegs...
Using the maglite as an Axle stand when fixing a broken spring...

 

[JohnnyBravo]

"Unusual" 2-3 months ago while driving my work truck at night, I noticed the driver side headlight was out. I was on a dark road, no moon and no street lights, so I held my my light outside the window for a couple of miles. It was brighter than the other headlight...

 

[zespectre]

Probably this flashlight prank.

Flashlight Prank Goes off Perfectly.

 

[AnAppleSnail]

I used a Peak Vesuvius to melt ice on the air-release valve on an air-powered pump so that we could retract the piston.

 

[Cataract]

Not all that wierd, but not what my Haiku was built for.
I used it to open a non twist off bottle of beer. I worked with no harm to the light.
Does that make it a Light Beer?

I'd say it makes your haiku a beer-light.

[...]
Using a ROP to heat up some Krystals

😱 I'm sure you don't mean what I think...

 

[jaycyu]

After dropping my DLSR on tile, I used a crenelated tailcap to cleave a lens cap jammed in my B+W lens filter. It didn't work. (A good excuse to get a Surefire Defender with its sharp bezel.) The model gave me one of her pins to pry it lose, or else we wouldn't had a shoot. The pin snapped but got the lens cap off the filter, which suffered cracks from the fall, but since it didn't catastrophically disintegrate, we used it for the photoshoot.

I bought/brought the flashlight with a blue LED to create lens-flare.
Atm, flashaholicism (coverting Ahorton's aspheric) is keeping me from saving enough money to replace my $150 lens filter.
Anyways, here is an image from that day:

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

Used a flashlight to locate my box of flashlights in the barn at night.

Used an Inova XO (K2 l.e.d. model) as a handwarmer on hikes.

Used the hard anodizing on an Inova XO2 to sharpen a knife.

Used a 4 D Maglite to hammer in nails.

Used a flashlight to look through my mail before opening it.

Put my hand in front of a bright flashlight to use it as a red light.

Scared off a mountain lion with the strobe from a Fenix P3D Q5.

 

[PhotonBoy]

The mountain lion escape works for me!

 

[Cataract]

jaycyu: that's a great picture!

Used a flashlight to locate my box of flashlights in the barn at night.

Used an Inova XO (K2 l.e.d. model) as a handwarmer on hikes.

Used the hard anodizing on an Inova XO2 to sharpen a knife.

Used a 4 D Maglite to hammer in nails.

Used a flashlight to look through my mail before opening it.

Put my hand in front of a bright flashlight to use it as a red light.

Scared off a mountain lion with the strobe from a Fenix P3D Q5.

Sounds like you have the most in quantity and unusualness so far. May I ask why you filter your own mail before opening? You want the good news before the bad?


I forgot to mention I scared a black bear away with an IFE2 last summer. Well, I did mention it but not in here. They're not as potentially agressive as mountain lions, though.

 

[iaboyeah]

In a restaurant it would be to see how much salt I was shaking out of the shaker.

 

[Treeguy]

Drove at night on my motorcycle with a burnt headlight, holding an old Maglite D cell so I could see.

Really and for true.

 

[Kestrel]

Not sure if it counts, but I naturally used a flashlight to explore some abandoned mines in New Mexico - specifically, the one mine where my roomate and I brought the old dynamite we found back to our dorm room in college. Yep, that one is pretty high on my list I think. 😱

 

[jamesmtl514]

I often use my E2D crenelations to pry or twist.
I use my higher powered lights as hand warmers in the winter.
I've used my E1b as a plumb bomb, and a weight when fishing wires.
I've put my lights in door jams to keep a door from closing/locking.
During Ice Storm '98 i used my 3D Mag to break ice.

 

[Illum]

probably not the most unusual, but recently bought a Quark Mini ML. It accidentally went through machine wash warm, tumble dry medium. It survived! I was so impressed I tossed the light back in for another spin cycle. Three more wash loads later the light disappeared, its probably stuck in a pillow case somewhere.

I've tossed all sort of lights into the wash, some made it, some didn't. At one point I tossed about a dozen Fenix E01s into the brass tumbler with 5.56 brass just to see what it would sound like. To my disappointment, it didn't sound very unusual. The lightshow however, was quite entertaining.

 

[Tixx]

Yeah, I use a P7 in the winter sometimes -- just not enough daylight to keep my watch charged up.

Aussiebob: Yours is the third account I've read on here recently of injuries sustained due to light-biting. I almost never do it anyway (although that's due to a combination of an irrational level of hygienic squeamishness and over-sensitive gag reflex), but from what I've read, I'm beginning to consider it downright dangerous.

Weirdest thing I've done would probably be abuse of a Mag -- A couple weeks ago, I ripped open a 24-pack of Dr Pepper with my Kiu LP bezel. (I had a knife in my pocket, but the light was already in my hand...)

Yeah that's dangerous. Mom always said to not walk around while brushing you teeth. Man that sucks!

 

[funkychateau]

1. Tied a string around the head of a 4D Maglight and lowered it into the lake, to see fish between the light and the surface. Found out that "waterproof" ain't necessarily so!

2. A local sporting-goods store used to mail out scratch-off discount coupons. You handed it to the clerk at checkout, and he scratched it off to see how much discount you get. Most were 10%, a few 20%, and rarely a 30% or 40%. I knew a guy who would fish dozens of these out of the trash bin next to the communal mailboxes at his apartment complex. He put a 12-volt handheld spotlight in a box with a hole cut in it, and would lay each scratchoff over the hole while looking at it with an eye loupe. All you had to do was make one thin groove in the opaque paint with a razor blade, and you could tell what the numbers underneath were going to be.

 

[cpalmer]

It may not be that unusual but while visiting family, the window in the bedroom would not stay open and I used the 2 D cell maglight to prop open the window.

 

[chnzwh]

Tried to open a bottle of beer with the tailcap of my E2DL...

 

[braddy]

Not sure if it counts, but I naturally used a flashlight to explore some abandoned mines in New Mexico - specifically, the one mine where my roomate and I brought the old dynamite we found back to our dorm room in college. Yep, that one is pretty high on my list I think. 😱

That one is impressive.