BurningPlayd0h is correct. I am active on dogsbite.org and other dog attack victim sites. Now I am commenting in 18650 Flashlight Reviews about how after more than five decades of life on the hostile surface of this planet, living with evil people, how I have successfully kept hostility and evil away from me, and, finally, the hostility of the surface of this planet has attacked me in the form of my neighbors Shepherd breeds ambush charge attacking me in the residential neighborhood, twice, when walking 210 miles per month for 40 months for 8,000 miles.
There is nothing to exaggerate or be delusional about when twice, in 8,000 pedestrian miles in 3.5 years, Shepherd breeds ultra short range ambush attacked me with one tenth of a second to spare to successfully stop the attack. The dogs were not going to stop just in time. I did not want to suffer bodily harm.
40 months, 210 miles per month, I have called 40 times to the police to report at large dog. 95% of them were not immediate injury threats. 5% percent were. One out of 20. Two out of forty.
30 feet per second. One second to defend myself. One tenth of a second to spare.
When a dog ambush charge attacks me, the last second belongs to me, and no one else. The last few feet are all mine. That time and distance do not belong to the repeated at large sometimes unpredictable pedestrian aggressive dog owner.
That last little bit of time and distance do not belong to the police.
That last little bit of time and distance do not belong to the prosecutor.
That last little bit of time and distance do not belong to the people who have not walked 8,000 miles in my shoes, who think that I should just wait until the last thirtieth of a second elapses, and then wait in the gutter of the street for someone to call an ambulance for me while my blood runs down the street.
I am not required by law to risk very certain immediate injury for an aggressive, snarling, growling dog that is ambush charge attacking me.
In a quick-moving situation, where a dog is charging and preparing to attack, a person has the right to use deadly force.
It is lawful for a person to take lethal action before it is too late to successfully repel an imminent attack threat of death or great bodily harm.
If a reasonable person has reasonable reason to feel immediate fear of body harm, the person has the right to armed self defense. It is not relevant what the pro-pedestrian hospitalization people feel. The law centers solely on what the dog charge attack victim had reason to feel. Twice, I was very, very afraid. Thank God I had one tenth of a second to spare to avoid hospitalization.
35,000 reconstructive surgeries per year in the US from severe dog mauling, because someone thought the dog was not really going to severly maul someone.
A million surgeries per year in the US from dog mauling, because someone thought the dog was not really going to maul someone.
Infants and young children are the largest portion of maulings, because someone thought the dog was not really going to maul the infant or the small child.
This topic is located in 18650 Flashlight Reviews. Here are mine, in chronological order:
1. Four-Sevens MMU-X3. Oct. 2014, 1,600 lumens, I purchased from Sears Marketplace/Overstock. I did well selecting my first real light, this permanently classic item will be forever beloved by flashoholics. This light boldly demarcates the division between lights that are smaller than it, and lights that are larger than it.
Nice beam profile, too. Not all throw, and not all flood. A nice, usefull combination of both. There is no way that I could have picked a better item at that time, five years ago.
2. Niwalker MM15. Nov. 2014, 5,233 lumens, purchased from the friendly folks at Going Gear. [B]Selbuilt[/B]s' review of this item had me utterly transfixed for weeks. I could not take another breath until I had it in my hands. No classic collection is complete without this ground-breaking hand-held floodlight.
3. Eagletac SX25L3 kit. Feb. 2015, 2,375 lumens. From GG. I got this because Selfbuilt always included it in his comparative tables in his reviews, and because of
its power/size ratio. I love its "gadgety" feel and I also love the Eagletac build style/quality.
4. Noctigon Meteor M43vn XP-L dd. June, 2015, Approx. 7,400/8,400 lumens. My first [B]Vinh54[/B] light. When it dawned on me that GG was not going to carry this instant permanent classic, I frantically searched for another supplier and found Vinh54. Oozing gob-loads of cachet, this light will forever have its place at the pinnacle of
true classics.
5. Thrunite TN36UTvn spec 1. Jan. 2016, 13,400 lumens. The ceiling bounce monster of its time. I edced it for a few months. That's how excited I was about it. My most
"beat up" light, from work horse use.
6. MM15 MBvn spec 1. Feb. 2016, 9,000 lumens. The must-have successor to the original ultra classic MM15.
7. Olight S2 Baton. Feb. 2016 from GG. ~1,000 lumens. This item goes with me whenever I have my keys on me, because they are what it is attached to. Much used,
never a bobble.
8. Acebeam EC50vn spec 1. May, 2016; 3100 lumens. The item for max power in its size in Spring 2016. A small beginning of my attraction to the ground-breaking line
up from Acebeam.
9. Eagletac MX25L4Cvn XPL pdt kit. July 2016, nice beam profile, provided by the four non-overlapping reflectors. A great looker, too.
10. Fenix TK75vnQ70. Aug. 2016, ~16,000 lumens. I used it every night for a few months, and I was thrilled by it every moment. Currently the oldest light in my "A" list use line-up.
11. Acebeam K70vn. Sept. 2016, 2,471 lumens. Autumnn 2016 is when I surprisingly became amazed at dedicated throwers. I bought it just to have such an item, and I instantly became thrilled at what the beam does.
12. Acebeam X65vn spec 1. Dec. 2016, 11,500 lumens. I became super excited as soon as its specs were released months before the light itself was released. This light
has the beam performance that I always wanted from other lights that just can not do what this can do.
13. TN42 vn spec 1. Feb. 2017, 2,400 lumens. The logical successor to the awesome K70.
14. P60vn Quad XP-L HD 2 cell host Cryos Cu head. March 2017, 4,300 lumens. My smallest edc light. 4,300 lumens from a light in its size class: Not bad at all.
15. Acebeam X65vn spec 1. March 2017, 11,200 lumens. Not being content with the first one that Vinh got, I needed another one of these superlative beam generators
for my other hand. If you want to feel what it's like to be at the outer limits of the hand held led universe, fire up one of these in each hand, and you
will feel that feeling.
16. Manker MK34vn spec 5. April 2017, 7,650 lumens. In its time, it was the item that had the perfect balance of max power for its size.
17. TM06Svn XHP50.2. May 25, 2017, 9,800 lumens, currently the item that is the perfect balance of max power for its size. Ultra limited edition,
only two will be made.
18. Acebeam X45vn XHP70.2. June 19, 2017, 25,000 lumens. I requested and received the KG Tuning specimen from Vinh. This item is much brighter that the Fenix TK75vnQ70.
19. Imalent R90TS. July 16, 2019. 36,000 lumens. 18x XHP35, 8x 21700 Samsung 40T, two fans,
I purchased the stock version Imalent R90TS from Vinh54. My main area of interest is beam profile/beam performance.
Beam profile similar to X65, but with a little more throw and some more beam width, and some more spill, with more lumens on the target at given range, but in the form of a larger hotspot. Ooops, this is not a 18650 light, so I posted in the wrong forum section. I blame my errror on stress due to barely surviving on the streets of Prescott, Az.
20. Acebeam K75Vn Spec 1. Sept. 3, 2019, 6,300 Lumens, 2,500 Meters, 1.57Mcd. The logical successor to the TN42. More throw, and more beam width than TN42. Vinh did no performance increase, but he tightened up some stuff.