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

[Locoboy5150]

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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?

Yep, I do that too, but only when the power goes out at my house which seems to average about once every month or two. (Darned neighbors and their stupid trees that they don't cut so the branches wipe out the power lines constantly.)

The only strange thing that I do with my lights is I hardly ever turn on the hallway lights in my house at night. I prefer to use a flashlight instead even though all the hallway lights work perfectly.

 

[ozner1991]

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i used my old 2d maglite to look through those scratch and win tickets, with the light you could see underneath the grey scratch covering

 

[Cataract]

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I was at a customer's facility repairing their film developers and had some time to waste while film was going through the machine feeder (not getting developped) for testing. They gave me a bunch 9X17" of unexposed X-ray films for the test. As the film came out I used my Quark AA to darken the film and made a bunch of poka-dots and lines on it. Then I made a pound sign (#) and a spiral. I went to the guy in charge and showed him the film and asked him what could cause that. He said he didn't know, but it seemed like something he saw before. When he got to the pound and the spiral, he froze, unable to compute what he was looking at. Ahhh, the priceless look on his face.

 

[Launch Mini]

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Does paying over $1,000 for ONE count as crazy?
Might in the real world, but around here, pretty sure it doesn't count.

SOoooooo, I need to find a wild & crazy thing to use my light on, then I'll post something, provided it's Safe For Work

 

[Solscud007]

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Does weapon mounting Surefires to Nerf guns count? I mounted one to a water pistol.

 

[Hack On Wheels]

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Does weapon mounting Surefires to Nerf guns count? I mounted one to a water pistol.

That isn't crazy, that's just awesome!

I can't remember doing anything crazy really...

I did however have fun testing the throw of my EDC one night though. At a park with friends and one of them had a balloon (slightly random, I know). Anyways, they let it go into the night sky so I whipped out my light , clicked it on to high and tracked the balloon for one or two hundred feet up until it disappeared in the night sky. A bit silly, amusing (for me), and a bit geeky (to my friends).

Slightly crazier, but not really with a flashlight... was staying at a cabin with some friends and some of them started horsing around in the virtually pitch black in the dead of the night. So I grabbed my camera's flash and strobed a few of them. We were all seeing spots for a while!

 

[Moka]

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One day got the urge to run the Thousand Steps with nothing but Torch Light at about Midnight...
For those who don't know what I'm talking about
http://www.visitvictoria.com/displayobject.cfm/objectid.00036EA7-8220-1EF6-9E6080C476A90000/

It was quite an experience... 😀

 

[mvyrmnd]

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One day got the urge to run the Thousand Steps with nothing but Torch Light at about Midnight...
For those who don't know what I'm talking about
http://www.visitvictoria.com/displayobject.cfm/objectid.00036EA7-8220-1EF6-9E6080C476A90000/

It was quite an experience... 😀

I guess doing that with a half-flat 2AA MiniMag would make it that much more authentic...

 

[CARNAL1]

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I don't know if this qualifies as crazy or not, but I use my lights to lower my electric bill. Instead of turning on my interior lights in my house, I use a number of my LED lights. For instance instead of turning on my main kitchen light I will tail stand my Tiablo A9 on high. Works quite well. I also have a Video room in which the main over head light, a 60W burned out about a year ago. I only use my LEDs in that room and it works out with no problems whatsoever. Lights used in my Video room are:

Elektro Lumens XM-3 (Old School)
Romisen RC-N3 Q5 (Single Stage)
Romisen RC-G2 Q5 (Love that Single AA power)
UK 4AA eLED (1st Gen)
MiniMag with Opalec NewBeam Upgrade (Still kickin after all these years)

All of these lights and a number of others combine to keep my electric bill under $60. each month. Wife thinks I'm crazy until see opens the bill. Happy Dark Trails.

 

[ab1ht]

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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?

I do this sometimes. The exhaust fan in our bathroom is hardwired to the light. I warm up the bathroom with an electric heater (it's cold in Massachusetts now) and don't want the fan to pull out the warm air.

I tail stand my 2AA minimag in the shower with me (in a fairly dry spot). Works great. More pleasant CRI than than overhead light anyway 🙂

 

[mvyrmnd]

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I have noticed that when trying to remove grass seeds and general crud from my border-collie's ears, warm tinted lights show the gunge better than cool tinted lights.

:sick2:

 

[bluepilgrim]

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looks like that should be http://www.drmomotoscope.com/

 

[leukos]

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I suppose seeing tvodrd successfully fry an egg on the lens of his USL was one of more unusual applications I have seen of a flashlight: http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/2232/site1096ux0.jpg

 

[Arnulf]

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Not a flashlight.....back in the 1970s I was at a kegger out in the country back in the woods on a friends land....I was riding my Triumph Bonneville motorcycle...I had a few beers and decided I better call it a night before I got too drunk to ride.....I went over and got on my bike and kicked her over and switched on the headlight and there was about 5 full moons out....a group of chicks had went off away from the party to take a squat...my headlight was right on them...I was kinda stunned at first...they were yelling turn the F##king light off.....OOPS time to haul *** bunch of drunk po'ed chicks heading my way. 😀

 

[Juggernaut]

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I was at a customer's facility repairing their film developers and had some time to waste while film was going through the machine feeder (not getting developped) for testing. They gave me a bunch 9X17" of unexposed X-ray films for the test. As the film came out I used my Quark AA to darken the film and made a bunch of poka-dots and lines on it. Then I made a pound sign (#) and a spiral. I went to the guy in charge and showed him the film and asked him what could cause that. He said he didn't know, but it seemed like something he saw before. When he got to the pound and the spiral, he froze, unable to compute what he was looking at. Ahhh, the priceless look on his face.

Best one I've heard so far, that's some funny stuff, I can just picture the guy starring blankly at the film:laughing:.

Haven't heard from the member on here who was at a museum with a huge glow in the dark mural which flashed a light ever few minuets to capture people's shadows on it, he took out his light and drew all sorts of silly things like happy faces on it. But the light was so intense that it didn't fad away like the people's images😱!

Me:

Searching for our stuck Jeep way out in the Aruban wasteland while standing up holding on to the roll cage of a jeep using my Taskforce as a spotlight "have to tell that entire story here sometime:twothumbs!"

Using 700 Lumens from my EDC-P7 to blind the crap put of my friends at laser tag! NOTHING like over kill:devil::rock:!

Trying to use the EDC-P7 as an every day use light e.g.: finding keys, socks, etc. Best one ever: Helping a guy find his phone in a movie cinema, SO Funny:laughing:!

Any time I use "The SUN":devil:.

Used my 3000 Lumen Oracle to navigate around at the local fireworks, this was the first time I saw what "to much power meant"😗!

I too, have mowed the lawn with a light on the handle bar, I also shower with lights🙄.

 

[rje58]

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I guess it's a good thing none of our former U.S. Presidents are flashaholics...?

or it might have been a Surefire instead of a cigar.

 

[RedLED]

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Left a very bright LED blinking SOS on the 32nd floor of a hotel in Manhattan in the window by mistake. It was visiable for miles, and no one ever resopnded.

I could see it, but could not get back to turn it off.

This was in 2002, and I am glad I was not in trouble. I Don't think people knew what it was. So much for Homeland Security, and the NYPD.

It blinked for for about seven hours. And it was BRIGHT!

 

[TorchBoy]

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I could see it, but could not get back to turn it off.

This was in 2002, and I am glad I was not in trouble. I Don't think people knew what it was. So much for Homeland Security, and the NYPD.

Did you let them know it was a mistake?

 

[stallion2]

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*mounting them to a couple Yamaha waverunners a few times in the past years.

*once made Stevie Wonder shield his eyes and say to me, "knock it off you little prick!!!"

I was at a customer's facility repairing their film developers and had some time to waste while film was going through the machine feeder (not getting developped) for testing. They gave me a bunch 9X17" of unexposed X-ray films for the test. As the film came out I used my Quark AA to darken the film and made a bunch of poka-dots and lines on it. Then I made a pound sign (#) and a spiral. I went to the guy in charge and showed him the film and asked him what could cause that. He said he didn't know, but it seemed like something he saw before. When he got to the pound and the spiral, he froze, unable to compute what he was looking at. Ahhh, the priceless look on his face.

i really hope that opportunity comes your way in the future. i wonder how things would've gone if you had written 'REDRUM' over and over.

 

[Apollo Cree]

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Slightly off topic, but I remember back around 1966 or so, seeing an advertising spotlight scanning the sky, and thinking, "I want a flashlight that bright."

We're not quite there yet, but we're getting close.