Your experience trying to help muggles.....

Only 2? Piker…

I still got and carried in my old car a 20mm ammo box. About the size of a toaster-oven if stood on-end. Kept all my flammables in there, including/especially fluids. Also had huge bungee cords and ratcheting tie-down straps to hold it in-place so it wouldn’t turn into a rather heavy projectile in case of a wreck.

People’ve said I carry more “emergency” crap in my car than most cops have. Yeah, sounds about right…

you’ve heard of the SHTF scinario? i’ve learned by trail and error to STFU when i’m in a store hahaha…else it can be when the SHTF… sad innit.

a little diverse but, some woman i was seeing was having a tizzy fit at the checkout, it seems there were kids running about all over the place ffs!! no parent supervision or anything, i made the mistake of pointing its a kiddies toy store……fff yeah… lol.

some days your never going to win.

This is the Coast 14

https://coastportland.com/product/hp14/

There are people who hate it. I have three, two which are at work. They have been through hell and back and still work. Dropped? I dropped them on concrete floors at least a dozen times over the years, my guys probably used them for bats.

In the end of the day, I think she probably bought the Coast and probably went to Ikea. Ikea was like a bingo reaction and she was holding the Coast when I left her. In hind sight, maybe it was her “big male” defensiveness that kicked in inadvertently. Maybe I over reacted to what may have been her throwaway comment.

At this point….whatever.

Like I said…

“This better. Shinier. Light up more.”

yeah, it was just not your day, even using the force would have failed, beware the woman’s hunting ground… there was your first clue.

edit… they even put portant man things on shelves to lure us in!!!

That makes two of us.

ALL my cars……Always annually check to make sure the emergency kit is intact. Two folding 4” knives. 15’ tow rope. 50 feet of 500 lb rope. Start up cables. 2 flashlights. Two yellow jacket (wife/helper). $100 in $10 bills. Small blanket. In winter, ski mask and gloves.

When I travel, extra phone, extra glasses, heavy blanket, folding shovel and full spare tire. On the road, water.

My car in Europe, same thing.

Stupid? How much is a life worth? Mine or the person I (or you) may save?

ahh yes the torch coast… my versions the SH 98 i think it is, but in the 26650 version, that’s if you can find them any more, they look like these but bigger.(theres a Q8 version on 1 AA, and 18650 and a 26650 version, the AA is a pocket version lasting 20 ish minutes with a 50 yard throw on full zoom, the 18650’s an hour at best on full for a 100 yard zoom, but the 26650 out throw’s and outlasts by another hour and has been battered dusted and oiled up well under cars,in bush’s n ditch’s…lol pocket fluffed for 2 years too).

sh98

Bingo…… :+1:

I tried helping two American women in the UK once, they were stopped on a three lane main roundabout with a flat tyre, now over here you limp the vehicle off of the roundabout, at worste some one will help push it out of the way, because it’s pritty dangerous sitting there with cars wizzing past at 50mph plus negotiating the roundabout and other audi drivers.

ermm ouch! they were very insistent i go copulate with myself in some other area because i was going to mug them. The look my face must have been priceless!

Helping woman needs caution, helping children needs a truck load of caution.

Country side road and as drove by, there is a woman sitting in her car. Stopped, asked if she needs help, showed her my licence and told her it’s okay to take a picture is she is concerned. She said her car just stopped. was waiting for her father to help her. I said fine and drove away.

Never needed to help a child, but oh man, unless there is imminent danger, I would call 911 and keep 50 feet away. Cell camera running all the way.

It’s sad that in our society, man have now become dangerous if not predatory animals that have to be looked at with caution. heck, there have been instances where the reward of a good deed was a lawsuit.

It’s because you people are weird. Learn to drive on the correct side of the road. :confounded:

EDIT…moved the thread to off topic.

I’m not so sure giving a stranger a photo of your license info is such a good idea… but I guess it’s better than her large male accomplice that jumps out of the bushes when you get out of your car to help, and…. well, you’d better hope he’s afraid of bright lights.

I’d just offer to call a tow truck… if I had a mobile phone, which I don’t. So, I guess I’d just honk and laugh and drive on.

Here’s exactly what I do. I go to Home Cheapo regularly for work. Every 3 months or so I buy a 3-pack of Defiant flashlights. They’re OK, with an OP reflector that masks the horrendous LED. I swap them out with my go-to emitter, XP-L HI, which seem to work in most everything I can find to put them in. I keep one as a spare EDC because you never know. When I whip out my hot rod S2+ with XHP 50.2 and freak someone out on turbo, that starts the conversation about flashlighs. I then proceed to give the person the Defiant light. No problems teaching them the dangers of Li-Ion, not bright enough to cause eye damage right away, yet bright to impress. And maybe I made the world a slightly better place because of it.

It’s difficult for us to realize that 99% of the population could give 2 s…t’s about flashlights.

I’m not sure that some of those tow truck drivers are trustworthy. The instructions to my wife is to keep her phone in her hands, make sure the folding knife blade is full lock and wait for me. If 4 or 5 cars stop, then it’s safe to come out.

When I stopped, she was physically ok and had the same reaction my wife would have and that was fine by me.

BTW…I remember a local accident that I also stopped among several cars. Mainly to put a safety net around his overturned Jeep SUV. I remember him screaming who hit him. Nobody hit him. He went so fast around the corner, he flipped his SUV. This was Canada. In the US, I would have second thoughts mainly because there is a chance the guy comes out with a gun and wants to get even.

I’m a member of both electric and acoustic guitar forums. Same thing there - if it doesn’t say Gibson or Fender or Martin, the general public has absolutely no clue. Which is unfortunate because they buy glorified production line guitars sold as custom shop, when they could have a bespoke guitar made to their very own specs fitted like a suit for the same price or even less, from one person who really cares, not an assembly line of specialists who each have one task, and probably don’t play.

Same thing with CNC. I’m also a CNC Zone member of about 10 years. I see every nrwb go out and buy steppers with the largest torque rating. Which is probably the hugest mistake in the DIY CNC community. But many also see videos on YouTube, think it’s cool, and have absolutely no clue how to use the machine or have no projects to run - that’s the second biggest mistake. I was probably the first DIY CNC guy to successfully mill aluminum at high speed full depth on a home made machine, using a router as a spindle, at a time when everyone was running super slow making dust not chips. I didn’t hide the secrets. In fact, I showed those on the forum how I did it, what speeds and feeds, what tools, what lubricant, how to adjust for machine rigidity… Now everyone and their mother cuts aluminum on Chinese CNC routers.

I’d only joined here recently, but I feel I’ve already amassed a wealth of knowledge. There are so many talented, bright, and helpful people here. I was at another forum but I feel I like the atmosphere here better and am grateful for all those that share their wealth of knowledge. And hopefully I can contribute a small piece someday.

the lack of trolls is a blessing.

spartan? the left is the right side lol

Absolutely.

Last summer, a little gril from up the block was riding her bike up’n’down the sidewalk, no helmet, and fell sideways trying to negotiate a 0.1mph U-turn on the driveway between my and my neighbor’s house. Must’ve bonked her head on the sidewalk, as she was bleeding slightly from around her temple where you could see the blood between her wispy blonde hairs.

A few mothers were up the block yakking on the stoop, I waved trying to get their attention, keeping a nice safe distance between me and the kid. Nothing. Again. Nothing. Yet again. Nothing. Had to do one of those 2-finger shriek whistles and then get their attention when they looked. No one moved even though I was waving that “come here!” signal. Gaaaah…

Finally, I cautiously came within 3’ or so of the kid, “You okay?”, then walked her up the block and told the kid’s mum what happened. :person_facepalming:

You feel bad for the kid, want to at least come close and check out her head, maybe even (gasp!) hold her hand while walking her and her bike up the block. Instead, you gotta treat her like she’s got Marburg and you don’t want to get any on you.

Yep, that Ultratac AAA’s strobe mode will learn him one but good!

Way back I was getting off a parkway on one of those cloverleaf exits, a woman was on the side, hood up, waiting outside her car.

Well before I had a cellphone (maybe before they even existed), but I did have a ceebee and 108” fiberglass whip antenna. Window down, mike in hand…

“Need a call for help?”

“Hm? Oh, no thanks!”

“No worries… bye!”

and that’s it.

Same like offering someone chocolate, I only ask once.

Imagine if the kid said……mommy the man touched me. The kid may be so “fear conditioned” that “touching” is nothing more than lifting her up.

Try sitting there on the mother’s porch trying to describe what “touching” went on. Wait for the cops and…good luck.

We are at the point where one has to weigh the life of the kid versus repercussions. Where that indecision can be a life and death.

I’m not happy with where we have come as a society. The tiny fraction of crazy has triggered overprotective parents into a frenzy of fear. Top it off with media horrid need for sensational headlines and we have reached……maybe I should walk away….not my problem.

Sad.