You’re too modest, Tom. I am now seriously lamenting missing the recent $87 Ali promotion deal on the BTU Shocker (Xm-L’s, only, but you’d need to salvage some serious copper to approach Tom’s feat). If you were so inclined I think you’d find it hard to meet demand for your modded Super Shocker. I am now in search for such a light, after a strange encounter last night.
I was walking my dog last night on leash, towards a nearby park, when I heard a metallic rattling noise. As I approached a particular house, I realized that the A-hole that lived there had opened the gate to his fenced-in yard to let his exaggeratedly short-legged, fat, big-headed fake Pitbull attack me and my sweet, rescued (but genuine and gentle) Pitbull.
Fortunately, I had my brightest light, an XinTd C8 V4, in hand to shine in his dogs eyes while yelling “get back” at the same time, all while keeping my dog away so he wouldn’t grab ahold of the dog trying to protect me. Fortunately, I was successful in halting the dog’s attack, but when I shined my light across the young man’s yard, I spotted him standing at the far corner of his house just silently watching the event.
When my light hit him and I kept it there while processing what kind of idiot would let their dog loose to attack someone on a public road, he then shone his (seemingly) brighter flashlight (with a big head, but seemed more a flooder) toward me and said, I got a flashlight, too. It’s at that moment that I wished for a brighter light, so that when I informed him that he was legally responsible in FL for keeping his dog contained, and that if his dog did any damage on a public road, he would be fully liable, it would have had the explanation mark of at least double his lumens driving the point into his alcohol-stupored brain.
When and if he had then still responded (as he ignorantly did) that I shouldn’t be walking my dog after dark (his speech clearly that of a drunk person), causing his dog to bark, I would have then shone my SS Shocker onto the public road (that I was on the opposite side of) and told him that my walking on a public road was both lawful & irrelevant to his legal obligations, which would be heavy if his dog caused any harm on public property.
Apparently, he can’t bear his dog’s incessant barking each time someone passes, so in his drunken state, he blamed an innocent passerby (me), instead. Partly because of my doubts that he’s intelligent enough to explore other alternatives, such as training, shock collar, larynx surgery, keeping the dog inside, etc, I want a light bright enough to see if the gate is open well in advance, and partly because I just enjoy lumens, I am now on a quest to come up with a blindingly super-bright, super thrower light for this particular part of my daily walks.