Last year a friend of mine needed a flashlight so I loaned him my Fenix LD2Ce.
He was so blown away by it that I gave it to him as a Christmas present.
A year later this same friend recently decided to go on a Church mission trip to Kenya. They stayed in thatch huts 1000 yards away from the wildlife preserve some where near Tanzania. This land is occupied by the very primitive Mariah tribe. These guys only carry homemade spears and knives for protection. The first day there my friend witnessed a lion kill and eat a zebra. There are no fences between you and the animals there and the only protection you have is from the native tribesman.
At night my friend could not sleep so he stayed up with the tribesman and sat around the campfire. Some of the Mariah could speak some broken English. They told tales about what it means to become a man in their culture. There were many difficult task a boy must complete but the final thing one must do is to single-handedly kill a lion with a spear or a knife. On the first night by the campfire my friend whipped out his Fenix and they were simply amazed. They had never seen anything like it. My friend became the Great White Flashlight God. They all wanted to borrow it and play with it. The strobe function really freaked them out.
Finally on the next to the last night there one of the warriors approached my friend and wanted to purchase the light. The warrior had no money but offered up the only thing of value besides food that he had which was a lions tooth necklace from the lion he killed when he became a man. At first my friend did not want to take the tooth but the others said the warrior would be offended if he did not trade.
My friend showed me the necklace and told me the story last night. The tooth is huge about four inches long. I thought you guys would get a kick out of this story. I have since bought my friend another Fenix to replace the one he bartered.
MIke
He was so blown away by it that I gave it to him as a Christmas present.
A year later this same friend recently decided to go on a Church mission trip to Kenya. They stayed in thatch huts 1000 yards away from the wildlife preserve some where near Tanzania. This land is occupied by the very primitive Mariah tribe. These guys only carry homemade spears and knives for protection. The first day there my friend witnessed a lion kill and eat a zebra. There are no fences between you and the animals there and the only protection you have is from the native tribesman.
At night my friend could not sleep so he stayed up with the tribesman and sat around the campfire. Some of the Mariah could speak some broken English. They told tales about what it means to become a man in their culture. There were many difficult task a boy must complete but the final thing one must do is to single-handedly kill a lion with a spear or a knife. On the first night by the campfire my friend whipped out his Fenix and they were simply amazed. They had never seen anything like it. My friend became the Great White Flashlight God. They all wanted to borrow it and play with it. The strobe function really freaked them out.
Finally on the next to the last night there one of the warriors approached my friend and wanted to purchase the light. The warrior had no money but offered up the only thing of value besides food that he had which was a lions tooth necklace from the lion he killed when he became a man. At first my friend did not want to take the tooth but the others said the warrior would be offended if he did not trade.
My friend showed me the necklace and told me the story last night. The tooth is huge about four inches long. I thought you guys would get a kick out of this story. I have since bought my friend another Fenix to replace the one he bartered.
MIke
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