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

[RobertM]

Re: What's the craziest thing you've done with a flashlight?

For example, this evening I strapped my Jet III-M to my lawnmower and mowed in complete darkness. My motivation was sound - at 9pm it was 29 celcius... I don't really want to mow in the heat of the day.

I figured the Jetbeam is one of the best built lights getting around, so it's be up for being strapped to a mower for 45mins. Came through without a scratch!

My wife thinks I'm certifiable...

What's the most eyebrow raising, maddest, insane thing you've done with a flashlight?

Haha, I too am guilty of law mowing at night with a flashlight. I was determined to get the lawn finished one night last summer and finished up with my SureFire G3 (P90 LA) in one hand and the steering wheel in the other. :laughing: BTW, it actually has built-in headlights, but without the G3, I still couldn't really see the "cut line."

-Robert

 

[KD5XB]

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All right, the craziest thing I ever did with a flashlight --

I may have told this on this forum before, but I'm not sure.

Along about 1975, I was attending Texas A&I University in Kingsville, Texas. Now, back then, many young people were in the habit of cruising south on 14th Street, crossing over at the south end of town, and going back north on 6th Street. At the place where they crossed over, there were a couple of baseball fields and a swimming pool, all in a park.

One night, it got "blustery", i.e. windy and stormy, and me being slightly out in left field, I went and bought one of those "bat" kites. I drove down to the aforementioned park, parked my car and went out onto one of the ball fields. It was dark and there were no lights, so nobody could see me.

I tied a 2-D-cell flashlight under the kite and launched the thing. The wind was gusty, so that light was swinging wildly in all different directions.

Sitting out in about center field, I could see the cars going by, and I don't think it took 30 minutes for the parking lot to be full of cars and all the occupants looking at that flashlight and trying to figure out if it was a UFO or something!

After another 45 minutes or so, I brought the kite in, walked out through the crowd, asked them "what's up" (but didn't dare slow down). I got in my car and left.

Those people all had that look on their face that said,"we've been had"!

Well, you asked for "crazy"...

 

[Launch Mini]

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Priceless. I just may try this on our lake next summer.
Glowing light in the middle of the lake:nana:

 

[KD7EIR]

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On a dark night, I used my flashlight to see something... My lights lead a rather boring life!

 

[mvyrmnd]

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Thanks for the laughs guys!

I'd love to hear more!

 

[kramer5150]

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15 years ago I used to go camping / water skiing with my college buddies family every summer. We would sleep out on the ski boat under the stars at night, while his parents stayed behind at base camp. We would cruise around the lake at night with our flashlights and and my 12V spotlight to find a place to drop anchor. Out boat anchor rope was only ~35 or so feet long, and we could not really tell how deep the water was.

We used to tie my Fulton MX991U to the end of the boat anchor rope, turn it on and drop it into the water just to try and gage how deep the water depth.

This was ~1993. The Fulton was modded with a glass lens and a radio-hack halogen PR lamp. I used to lube the gaskets with cooking oil... LOL!

I still have both lights and they work fine, although the fulton switch is intermittent.

 

[Hooked on Fenix]

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Spotting and scaring away mountain lions around camp. My Power on Board H.I.D. spotlight and my Fenix P3D Q5 were very effective.

Locating black bears who were trying to ransack our campsite on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevadas.

Seeing how far my H.I.D. spotlight would shine into the Sierra Nevada mountains from a campground down by Independence. Someone on one of the mountain tops shined a light back. This was after 8:30 P.M. in November. I think the light shined back was a Petzl Myo XP with the SSC l.e.d.. I recognized the super bright bluish light that had to be a SSC P4, and the light dimmed after about 15 seconds (the person had it on boost mode before it timed out and went back to high).

 

[NonSenCe]

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the kite story is great! hahah

craziest i have done.. umm i donno.. boring also..

maybe craziest was to leave it unattenned in strange place. (so they got stolen)

left them in weird places (tk11 inside the tailpipe of my car.. it was a handy shelf for it while i did something else)

used my Lmini2 mce version on high to warm up/ melt a frozen keyhole of my car.

simple and boring.. i know.

 

[balou]

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Does 'illuminating a human skull from the inside with a Nitecore D10' count as crazy?

(Long exposure shot, thus slightly blurred. Eyes blackened, because haven't gotten permission from my flatmate to post his pic on the net yet)

 

[skillet]

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Drove 16 miles home from church one night using my M6...
Altenator went out on the car.. and it was COLD.... so used the heater some but didn't want to spend my battery...

 

[LightCannon]

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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?

 

[Art]

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Some days ago it was really could at my house. I was I the couch with a blanket over me but my feet where still very could...I had a Nitecore extreme r2 nearby so I switched it on into max and put it between my feet... after 10mins the light was hot and so was I 😀

 

[Dan FO]

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Well at the 2009 SHOT SHOW CPF M&G I watched a member set newspaper on fire with a flashlight which drew the security guards but the member knew the owner of the condo complex which made everything GTG. 🙂

 

[Flying Turtle]

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Made this silly flashlight portrait in response to a past thread.

Geoff

 

[PCC]

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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?

No, you're not unique for doing this. I do it, too. Saves on the electrical bill a little bit and it helps me burn through the bag of AA and 9V batteries I have sitting there begging me to use them.

Kramer5150, my wife uses my dimmer flashlights to clean my kids' ears, too.

Craziest thing I did with my lights? We used to race RC cars in the parking lot of a local hobby store at night and, after they turn the parking lot lights out, everyone tapes a Photon or something similar to their cars and we keep driving. We'd crash more because we couldn't see the walls set up to outline the track but it was better than packing up and going home.

 

[sed6]

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This one time, at band camp...

*SCNR* :nana:

+1

 

[SneakyCyber]

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First night out with my SSC P7 on delivery I took it with me to an apartment that had no outside lighting. Two people were walking on the side walk and thought I was a LEO and ran the other direction. They must have been up to no good. :shakehead

 

[bluepilgrim]

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Fastened a light to a pole, stuck it put a second story window, stretched it up and banged it on the gutter to chase a raccoon off the roof. It seemed to have worked.

 

[Dude Dudeson]

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Being towed by a fast dog while on rollerblades on a rural street with no streetlights - and a cheap POS light.

I'd done this many times in better lighting, but the ensuing crash was one of the things that got me into flashaholic land.

 

[KD5XB]

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First night out with my SSC P7 on delivery I took it with me to an apartment that had no outside lighting. Two people were walking on the side walk and thought I was a LEO and ran the other direction. They must have been up to no good. :shakehead

Gee, that's something I sure wouldn't do -- you're liable to get SHOT by doing that!