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

[Monocrom]

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

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'm proud of you.

Signed ... :devil:

 

[Jash]

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

Went cliff diving with some mates one night using an Eveready Dolphin to climb up the rocks. Dropped it into the water to see who could jump the closest to it. No-one got very close as it was about a 40 foot drop and didn't want to land on this thing.

 

[Magic Matt]

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

Some idiot ran into my friend's car while it was parked up in a layby on a country lane about 4 hours ago. Totalled the front lights.

The reason this is relevant is.... we just drove the 8 miles to the garage by the light of my TK40 with me leaning out the car window. It was amazingly awesome!!!!!!! (Not sure it was legal, but neverind!)

The guys at the garage were somewhat surprised at what pulled up onto their forecourt. :naughty:

 

[Kestrel]

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

I still can't believe I did this...

Back when I was was in college in New Mexico, me and a few friends would explore old abandoned mines in the mountains. I'm sure I was using an AA minimag back then. :shakehead We'd come across collapsed tunnels, very very old dynamite, we even shimmied over vertical shafts on the twin iron rails that the ore carts used to use (the supporting wooden trellises had long since fallen away).

I'm quite happy that we're still alive. 😱

K

 

[vio765]

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

story one:
i went out for a walk around my brother's field. it was about 5F degrees above, 15F below windchill, ~ 6 inches of snow on the ground, 7am, and zinging from my special "rocket fuel" recipe for coffee. the light was a DBS SMO reflector with 2x18650 cells. me and light held up nicely.


story 2 (this never actually happened, but it is funny):
read my TK40 a bedtime story.

 

[cityevader]

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

Kinda lame, but several years ago I had my "million candlepower spotlight" which was just about the brightest thing a seventeen year old could find. I had my '84 Toyota Supra and had spent a little time one night at my high school's parking lot doing donuts and what-not and trying to make a giant '92 in thick black skidmarks (graduating year). Came back about an hour later to check it out. The parking lot lampposts were off this time, and it didn't even occur to me it was for a reason. We had just pulled up to the very far end in total pitch black when I had a feeling something was going on. I lit up the spotlight dead onto a squad car sneaking in all slow and quiet like. As soon as mine went on, three cops cars hit their spots and red and blues and tore right up to us with their tires squealing like we were robbers coming out of a bank. We just got a talking to, thankfully.

 

[Cataract]

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

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.

:twothumbs You just gave me a reason to ge a UV flashlight

 

[yalskey]

What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

FUN THREAD:
What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

Weird situations, odd application, bizarre uses, freak accidents... etc.

(let's keep this clean however... obviously)

 

[gmf2010]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

(let's keep this clean however... obviously)

I know I'm not the only one that read the thread title and promptly realized my mind is, in fact, in the gutter.

 

[yalskey]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

I know I'm not the only one that read the thread title and promptly realized my mind is, in fact, in the gutter.

Yeah, it's called "being a man".

(I had the same thing in mind when I wrote that last line)

 

[Serial Chiller]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

I've used my iTP C8 as a hammer and as a bottle opener. It has a few more dents and scratches by now, but it still works great.

 

[nasa779]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

um there are so many of these threads

 

[yalskey]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

um there are so many of these threads

Really? I've been reading CPF everyday for about 4 years and I haven't really come across one... ok, well maybe one that was similar, but I wouldn't say "there are so many of these threads" at all.

Look, it a fun thread for CPF-ers to share neat / funny stories. Let's not be a Debbie Downer here. If you're not interested, don't post / read!

 

[recDNA]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

FUN THREAD:
What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

Weird situations, odd application, bizarre uses, freak accidents... etc.

(let's keep this clean however... obviously)

I caught the Easter Bunny!

 

[zwerky]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

well, yesterday i gave a friend a quark mini 123. he's the sommelier/beverage director at a really popular new restaurant in San Francisco and he was able to squeeze us in for a dinner during prime time. he saw the lil light & raved that he can now decant wine using the q123 because it's so small and it tail stands which is even more perfect. before that, he was using his larger plastic surefire that had a clicky switch and no tail standing.

so win win all around :twothumbs

 

[elfakyn]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

I hammered a mechanical pencil tip into the desk with my P20A2. (got bored)

 

[strinq]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

Broke some pistachio shells to get to the core.

 

[branespload]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

I light up a jack-o-lantern with a quark 123 ti on strobe when someone asked me if I "had a light" on halloween..

 

[hoongern]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

Really? I've been reading CPF everyday for about 4 years and I haven't really come across one... ok, well maybe one that was similar, but I wouldn't say "there are so many of these threads" at all.

Look, it a fun thread for CPF-ers to share neat / funny stories. Let's not be a Debbie Downer here. If you're not interested, don't post / read!

Some other threads if you're also interested in reading 🙂 I feel that there are more...

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

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

Weirdest thing you've done with your flashlight?

 

[hybrid]

Re: What's the strangest thing you ever did with a flashlight?

I forgot I had my light in my pocket when I went out to a nightclub with my friends. When I saw the bouncers using their flashlights to part the seas of people so they could get through, I decided to try the same thing...it works.