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

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

stallion2 said:
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.
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:crackup::crackup::crackup: Good thing I'm alone in my office, or everyone would have wanted to know what I'm LMAO about... I sure will try that one next time!
 
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"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😱!"



That was me. I didn't want to pipe in because I'm not sure that the statute of limitations has expired...:laughing:

We haven't been back since.
 
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CARNAL1 said:
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:
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Sometimes I leave all the lights off in the apartment and use a light to navigate around. It's less hassle to carry a light than to switch the lights off behind me IMO.
 
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Ah, so you only discovered it when you got back and was able to turn it off.
 
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I've got something for this thread but it's too much.
This place is family friendly. 😉
 
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After it rains, I use my main EDC at work to spot worms on the darkened private road, so I don't accidentally step on them. When it doesn't rain, they stay in the grassy area along the sides of the private road. I don't want worm guts on the inside of my car. It's not even a year old ...

... I just realized we're all competing to see which one of us is craziest.

:wtf:
 
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TorchBoy said:
Ah, so you only discovered it when you got back and was able to turn it off.
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No, I could see it. The problem was, I was on a photo shoot. it was with a company that had offices in the World Trade Center, and the CEO took the employees back for a ceremony with the NYPD Chaplin.

I was in the lead car of a NYPD motorcade that took several buses of people, and the Mayor back to ground zero, so I was just stuck in the bubble, or package.

It was an accident...I was playing around with it, and set it down when I was distracted by my wife.

That's the story. But, I could see it from all over Manhattan.

I am so glad nothing happened...I would not do well in Rikers Isalnd!
 
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This is the craziest and dumbest...

Craziest...

I had loads of those little LED lights that go on keyrings - they were giving them away from a store I use regularly. For a laugh, we put our rabbits in harnesses and let them run around the garden at night with a torch clipped to the harness.


Dumbest...

Whilst doing the above, I decided to use my camera to take a long exposure (some 5 minutes) thinking I'd get some interesting light trails. I took several shots, and then the next day went to take the film out of the camera... to find that there was no film in there.

I now exclusively use Digital.


:stupid:
 
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Some Digital cameras can offer a similar "gotcha".


They let you take pictures, even if there is no Memory Card inserted.


😛
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Burgess said:
Some Digital cameras can offer a similar "gotcha".


They let you take pictures, even if there is no Memory Card inserted.


😛
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True, but getting them off may require locating the cable that cable with the camera, and that could potentially be quite fun...
 
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my stories are absolutely lame - taken a shower with them.

two glowtoob lithium whites.
it was about 3 am and i wanted to take a shower. unfortunately, my bath shares a glass wall with the bedroom and i didn't want to disturb the girl who was over that night. if i had turned on the lights, it would have lit up the bedroom too. i use glowtoobs to finish off dead cells, and the light was just enough to get around. perfect.

the previous use was finding glasses. i had two family members who were in a fairly nasty accident, the car completely totalled and everything inside (except them!) thrown far from the accident. after arriving on the scene and getting them squared away, i returned to the area to look for their glasses (both of them had glasses and high prescriptions), covering about half a football field. the lx2 made short work of that!
 
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Made another one last week...

Involves a UV spot light rather than a flashlight, but I think it belongs here...

I test what is called "liquid penetrants" which are a fluorescent liquid that will penetrate really small cracks (no pun intended... you should see the manufacturer's description). It normally is used in automotive and aerospace industry for quality testing, but I do testing on the products for re-certification. This involves a panel with cracks in it that I have to put the liquid on and spray off before inspecting under intense UV light (hence a UV projector). Spraying the stuff off splatters all over the walls and once in a while I just shine the projector on the wall. In normal light, you don't suspect a thing, but with the UV on, it literally looks like a murder scene and whoever's holding the projector feels like a CSI investigator.

... so, the other day I used the same liquid to spell "redrum" on the wall and called a collegue over while holding the projector... haven't heard anyone laugh louder in my entire life
 
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Cataract said:
... so, the other day I used the same liquid to spell "redrum" on the wall and called a collegue over while holding the projector... haven't heard anyone laugh louder in my entire life
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Sounds like a great example of nerd humour. Love it! :twothumbs
 
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I used the strobe feature on my Fenix L0D rebel 80 a few months back while upstate. Used it to entertain a couple of cats belonging to my best friend's wife's brother's best friend. A cute hippie chick. I played with her too . . . mainly by annoying her with a few ideas challenging her liberal views. It was fun, she never got too upset. 🙂
 
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Dumb thing-- Accidentally/ not paying attention tried to to tighten the tailcap on my kroma with my teeth. I learned my lesson with the chipped tooth i have.

Weird-- Used the knurling on my surefire to file one of my finger nails down.
 
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Hahaha mr_maurice, i think your story is by far the best hahahah 😀 :crackup:
 
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I had a liquid UV dye kit you use to see cracks in engine blocks and such. Well the fluid is clear and comes in a little squirt bottle. I visited my friend one day and had the bottle and UV flashlight, when he went to the bathroom I sprayed some of the fluid over his bed and adjacent wall. 20 min later it had all dried and was not noticeable. I commenced to show him my new cool UV flashlight when his mother suddenly walked into the room. I told them that the uv light isn't bright so they need to shut the lights off. His mother then shut off the lights and I pointed my UV flashlight toward his bed and all the dye was glowing brilliantly all over his bed and wall. The looks on my friend's and his mother's face was priceless. The room just stayed silent, that was one of the most awkward experiences I have had.

I also once tied a fulton anglehead to my fishing rod to gauge the depth and possibly attract fish. When the light finally reached the bottom it was out of sight, I reeled it back in and discovered that is was full of water but the light was still on as bright as ever. We later got a real fish finder and learned that that spot was 50-65ft deep.
 
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3000k said:
I had a liquid UV dye kit you use to see cracks in engine blocks and such. Well the fluid is clear and comes in a little squirt bottle. I visited my friend one day and had the bottle and UV flashlight, when he went to the bathroom I sprayed some of the fluid over his bed and adjacent wall. 20 min later it had all dried and was not noticeable. I commenced to show him my new cool UV flashlight when his mother suddenly walked into the room. I told them that the uv light isn't bright so they need to shut the lights off. His mother then shut off the lights and I pointed my UV flashlight toward his bed and all the dye was glowing brilliantly all over his bed and wall. The looks on my friend's and his mother's face was priceless. The room just stayed silent, that was one of the most awkward experiences I have had.
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you are a monster:duh2:...well played:thumbsup:
 
Re: What's the craziest thing you've done with a flashlight?

stallion2 said:
you are a monster:duh2:...well played:thumbsup:
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Should have said something like: "It can show traces of biological material - like blood etc." - and then you turn on the flashlight, and you see the giant spray all over the room 😀
 
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