• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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      22 months ago

      That works. Also, back when I delivered pizza I kept a rather large LED flashlight in my cupholder all the time, ostensibly for spotting mailboxes and house numbers. (This was back in the day when having a powerful LED flashlight was a big deal, not like nowadays when you can get 3 for $10 on Amazon or whatever.) Pointing it out the back window usually got the point across when asshats felt the need to sit three feet off my back bumper and shine their high beams at me.

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        32 months ago

        Shit if I find myself night commuting again on back roads I might have to keep such a flashlight in my car. I’ve had so many trucks light up my entire fucking cabin with their illegal light mods

        • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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          32 months ago

          My attorney has advised me to make no statements whatsoever regarding the applicability of the Lumintop Thor Mini I just bought the other week, which outputs a mere 250 lumens but does so in a narrow cone that’s got, to my reckoning, a divergence of only about four or five degrees.

          I’ll have to do some measuring later, but at rear-windshield-to-asshole distance it’ll only throw a spot that’s probably about a foot wide, delivering maximum fuck you with a minimum of collateral damage.

          • LousyCornMuffins
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            22 months ago

            that’s pretty expensive for 250 lumens. i can get 500 for a third the price.

            • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️
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              11 month ago

              In an LEP light? A regular LED, sure. But those lack the novelty of being able to lance somebody in the face with a laser beam.

      • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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        11 month ago

        Yeah the one time I tried it I ended up just mucking up my own mirrors and not managing to shine the light back in their eyes