I appear to have lost my flashlight at the space, it would be nice to get it back since it was a gift from a friend. Its an mh27uv from nitecore, if you find it please let me know!
Good thing you didn’t loose one of these flashlights.
https://www.amazon.com/IMALENT-Flashlight-Lumens-Display-Cooling/dp/B07RSRXDLX
I randomly ran across on the squirrel and rabbit hole in YouTube.
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I wouldn’t even need headlights
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Or one of these intricately-machined marvels …
I met the inventor/producer some ~15 years ago and handled the original design - it looks like something that was injection molded yet took hours of machine time to produce using a CNC mill in his basement. The battery compartment door was a marvel to behold - push against a spring loaded bar that engaged a crossbar that hooked into latched machined out of the blank in a fashion that felt like a high-quality padlock engaging.
But, wow, that’s a lot of coin to throw at something so small…
Im all for high-tech I just dont get why anyone on earth would pay $5k for a flashlight, does it cure cancer?
I don’t understand it either (the simpler originals were selling for something like <$1000 per back in the day), but the guy seems to make his living selling a veritable handful of them a year so clearly there’s a market.
Clearly, you don’t know how to use an expense account.
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Same reason people buy 50k watches I guess.
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I’ve always explained it like this. If you make $100 million a year, as some CEOs do today, then $5K is pocket change and now you have something most people cannot afford. Same with expensive cars, watches, and clothing. It shows you can “afford” it. Something you can show off.
Then there is the government who seems to overpay for almost everything, including flashlights.
True story…another lost flashlight.
Last month there was the Southwest Swap Meet at the Texas Motor Speedway. One of the Security Officers lost his $100 flashlight in one of the Porta-Potties early in the morning. It was still dark out and he needed to see inside the Porta-Pottie. Needless to say, he dropped it and you can guess where it fell. The flashlight was still turned on as it sunk to the bottom of the goo. It so happened that the Porta-Potty Service Truck was on site. The service guy flushed out the Porta-Pottie, retrieved the flashlight for the Officer. He then disassembled the flashlight, took disinfectant and cleaned the entire flashlight and the batteries. It was now probably cleaner then it had every been…and it still worked. Problem solved.
Oh, by the way…on the back of the Service Truck was a sign that read:
“Caution! Contents Contains Political Promises”.
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I love these kind of stories. I can’t imagine what kind of stuff those guys come across. The bumper sticker is also very true.
and i found it.
my dog took it and had it stashed under her bed with a pile of toys. very strange theft case
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Did you file a criminal complaint with the authorities?