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

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The craziest thing that I have done with a torch/flashlight was this:

As everyone was heading to the dorms on school camp in Fiordland, New Zealand; someone spotted a possum nearby. Lots of the girls got scared and started screaming every time it moved, so to solve the problem, my dad and I grabbed our LED Lenser P17s (Yes, we both have one) and we chased it away. It was pretty fun.
 
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This doesn't really fall under "crazy", but one time after a foot-high snowfall with drifting - it always drifts there - I snowblowed the 200' driveway using CentraLEDs to supplement the near-useless headlights. Or maybe the headlights didn't work? I don't remember any more. In any event, the magnets are ace in those things, as is the gooseneck.
 
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At one time I made my girlfriend "feel real good" with the back end of a 3D Maglite. Leave the rest to your imagination....😗
 
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I should have done it, but I came across this gentleman that came up to me and asked me about my torch(flash light) and how much it costs. I told him that it was an Olight MX3 Triton 1200 lumen(2014 version) and that it costed me 100$ He said he had a 10$ Kmart light and that they were the same poop.:ironic: Whoa, you never insult a man and his torch.😡 I was about to tell him to have torch off. He did say that his torch had a flat battery. :ironic:
 
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With my SF M6, I lit up all the skyscrapers in on Park Ave., in Manhattan, more than likely High dollar attorney's offices, with my Zeiss 10 X 56 Binoculars, I could see in all the empty offices from our suite at the Waldorf. Also, the same night I left an S.O.S blinking in the window, wife scared about it during dinner and the rest of the evening out. She was expecting a swat team dressed like the Micheinman like they do, to have broken down the door to the room.

I left an S.O.S beacon which signaled Manhattan for 10 hours, and nothing! I saw it, it was visible for miles.

Nothing like an M6 and Zeiss for New York fun!!!

Oh, and the windows opened and I lit up the people on the street, who freaked!!!

I do not remember the photo job I did there, but I do remember fun with flashlights!

Never depend on that SOS, that was visible in the harbor, and all the authorities were playing cards, and never noticed it! And this was post 911, they should have noticed it after all that time, or I wager the ones in charge never learned Morse code. Even I know Morse code, good god!
 
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Sadly you pointed out why S.O.S. mode is truly useless. 🙁
 
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Str8stroke said:
For me crazy & dumb kinda mesh.

On a warm and muggy Georgia Friday night in the middle of June me and a friend are ridding around in his 1980's "new" Mustang 5.0. It was one of those that looked like the cops drove. Even white in color. I was playing with his 3D maglite in the passenger seat, ya know, the one that looks like cops use. While we are riding down a small 2 lane road, doing the speed limit, late that evening a car tailgating us flies by us and cuts sharply in front of us and taps the brakes.

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Str8stroke,
Great story!!!
 
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LightCannon said:
I shower in the dark without any lighting source but a flashlight. Is this weird, or does anyone else do this?
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I do that a lot.

I like having the lights mostly out at night so my vision is somewhat night adjusted. I'm trying to wind down and relax for the night so the last thing I need is to go into the bathroom and turn on 900 watts of Halogen lighting. . . .

I just take my Spark SG5 ("mule"); lay it on the counter aimed at the shower; set it on 8 lumens and that's all I need. . .
 
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I shower with my eyes closed after the shampoo and face part, and I shower from top down with a single exception (guess which part I leave for last?)
 
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Guy's, stay on track. Showering?

Bill
 
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I'm not too sure how some of the posts in this thread haven't been deleted prior to this.
Please do not post any content that is illegal, sexual or just plain gross, the same rules apply to this thread as every other thread on CPF
 
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Sorry Norm.

Great thread and stories guys!
 
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Recently been using my flashlights to peek into my baby's diapers to check for surprises. Wifey did the same and stopped complaining about my many flashlights lying all around the house. :laughing:
 
I bet a few of us on CPF are aware of that unique angry blue color from LEDs.
 
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I would have to call this the most unusual in my personal experience:

Helping a flight attendant picking up shards from a broken drinking glass.

I anyone's paying attention, or ever flew with an airline, they should ask "how in the world do you get drinking glass shards inside an airplane?????" All I can say is that the lady in the row ahead of me got up to retrieve something from her bag and, as soon as she opened the overhead bin, a small and very fragile drinking glass fell out and broke to tiny bitty shards on the floor. Not kidding... there was a drinking glass sitting in the overhead compartment. It didn't seem to be hers, so there is no answer as to what it was doing there.

The passenger who was next to her called the flight attendant who in turn fetched a little broom and dust pan. Since the lighting is very poor at airlplane carpet level, I just had to take out my Q123 and help. We found quite a few little pieces that would have stayed there without it and felt confident we got all the potentially dangerous itty bits after a good 7-8 minutes. It also gave me a chance to tell the stewardess that my entertainment system just froze on me right before the event. Still wore my shoes for the rest (about half) of the 8 hour flight, though... :ironic:
 
An elementary teacher once stepped on the power cord of the move projector she was using; thusly rendering the room pitch black. The teacher panicked. In response, I drew my mini-mag and did the ceiling bounce thing. Instead of being grateful, the teacher called me out in front of the class, asking why I would carry a flashlight. My feelings got hurt, so I responded, "Why aren't you?" The class erupted with laughter. The teacher responded by using my ambient light to, go to the light switches and turn on all of the room lights, march back to me and take my light till the end of the day. I always thought that situation was weird.

A like scenario happened in college, but with the projector's lamp exploding. And, this time the professor asked to borrow my flashlight until the end of class. I did, however, get the same question in the same accusatory manner.
 
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LightCannon said:
I shower in the dark without any lighting source but a flashlight. Is this weird, or does anyone else do this?

Or maybe it's my inner flashaholic telling me to use my lights whenever possible?
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I do that but with my NiteCore D11 as the light source.
 
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