Bushman5
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recently in Vancouver we had our annual fireworks night. About a million people cram themselves into the downtown core and the surrounding areas around the shoreline to watch the show and listen to the music simulcast on the radio station. For the most part 99% of the crowds behave, but there is always idiots that ruin it for everyone else. We have had stabbings, melees, bear spray incidents, fights, damaged property, drunkeness etc. But for the most part its a family affair.
GF and I cycled over to the opposite side of the inlet, to watch the show from the park. we plopped ourselves down on the nice brown dry grass, she broke out her camera and i enjoyed a icy wobblypop. I played with all my lights (yes i brought them all) :twothumbs maaaaan that M1X throws a bloody huge beam downrange in the dark! and we watched the show. bang boom oooh ahhhh bang boom ooohhh aaaaahh
thruout the show there was tons of little bats flying around, snacking on the skeeters. I would wave my TA30 in the air and the clouds of skeeters would get lit up, then the bats would swarm to the where the lights where shining, it was neat.
anyways, intro aside lets get down to the nastiness of some people.
We waited for an hour for the crowds to disperse before cycling out. I had my Dinotte 200 lumen taillight strobing and the 200 lumen headlight blinking. We paused on the little bridge over the pond, to light up the beavers that were splashing around. GF paused for a cig break. About ten minutes later a couple of men walked up and got in my face, yelling at me that the bike light was too bright and that it was damaging to the animals :thinking: He got closer and closer to me, to the point of being about 2 feet away. I could smell bourbon on his breath and noted his eyes were bloodshot. He jabbed a finger in my chest and pushed me, saying he was goign to throw my bike into the pond, and yelled SHUT THE RED LIGHT OFF (i cant print what he said, family forum and all) . His buddy was a little too close to my GF too.....
I told him to back off, he did'nt. He continued to get verbally and physically aggressive with me, swearing and pushing me in my chest and neck.
I whipped out the Jetbeam M1X, and strobed him (on the super fast strobe setting) right in the eyes, then smacked his arm away from my neck. He threw up his hands over his face and stumbled away from us, the sloped ramp of the footbridge greatly assisting him :naughty: . I had both of them completely blinded, their night vision shot to heck. A verbal barrage ensued, expletives being hurled. I told them to have a nice night and keep walking. They did. They also walked right into a tree. The GF and I doused our bike lights and rode back the other way and around to a different route. We could still hear them cussing.
Anyways, that was my night. I know some hate strobes on their lights but i love them for utility (warning light for roadside repairs at night) and safety reasons (incident in park).
GF and I cycled over to the opposite side of the inlet, to watch the show from the park. we plopped ourselves down on the nice brown dry grass, she broke out her camera and i enjoyed a icy wobblypop. I played with all my lights (yes i brought them all) :twothumbs maaaaan that M1X throws a bloody huge beam downrange in the dark! and we watched the show. bang boom oooh ahhhh bang boom ooohhh aaaaahh
thruout the show there was tons of little bats flying around, snacking on the skeeters. I would wave my TA30 in the air and the clouds of skeeters would get lit up, then the bats would swarm to the where the lights where shining, it was neat.
anyways, intro aside lets get down to the nastiness of some people.
We waited for an hour for the crowds to disperse before cycling out. I had my Dinotte 200 lumen taillight strobing and the 200 lumen headlight blinking. We paused on the little bridge over the pond, to light up the beavers that were splashing around. GF paused for a cig break. About ten minutes later a couple of men walked up and got in my face, yelling at me that the bike light was too bright and that it was damaging to the animals :thinking: He got closer and closer to me, to the point of being about 2 feet away. I could smell bourbon on his breath and noted his eyes were bloodshot. He jabbed a finger in my chest and pushed me, saying he was goign to throw my bike into the pond, and yelled SHUT THE RED LIGHT OFF (i cant print what he said, family forum and all) . His buddy was a little too close to my GF too.....
I told him to back off, he did'nt. He continued to get verbally and physically aggressive with me, swearing and pushing me in my chest and neck.
I whipped out the Jetbeam M1X, and strobed him (on the super fast strobe setting) right in the eyes, then smacked his arm away from my neck. He threw up his hands over his face and stumbled away from us, the sloped ramp of the footbridge greatly assisting him :naughty: . I had both of them completely blinded, their night vision shot to heck. A verbal barrage ensued, expletives being hurled. I told them to have a nice night and keep walking. They did. They also walked right into a tree. The GF and I doused our bike lights and rode back the other way and around to a different route. We could still hear them cussing.
Anyways, that was my night. I know some hate strobes on their lights but i love them for utility (warning light for roadside repairs at night) and safety reasons (incident in park).
, I most likely would escalate the situation if my wife didn't beat me to it. :shakehead 
