I have a 1,000,000 Candlewatt Flashlight.

I want to missuse this thing. You can feel the heat of it on your arm from ten feat away, and spotlight lowlying clouds. The potential for abuse is of the charts, but it's late, I'm tired, and I want to know what your twisted minds could come up with.

my dad has the same thing. is it big and heavy with a pistol grip and a trigger?

when I worked at the Cheesecake factory here in SF they had one to check for dirt and grime in dark cracks and stuff. or, well, actually I don't know why they had it.

anyways, the Cheesecake factory here is on the 8th floor of a building overlooking union square. I used to steal the flashlight and shine it down on people below, into cars and into all the hotel rooms that surround the square. the thing is so fucking bright.

yeah I'm a dork.

Depends on whether or not you fear arrest .

Candlewatt? Never heard of that unit before.

where the fuck can i get me one of those!!!!!!!!!

do you think you are bright?

I am not sure if it spelled right, but yes that is a unit of measure. How many candles would equal the brightness of the flashlight or bulb. I learned that after moving to the south where such things are VERY important.

been looking at one of those for a long time.... so they're really that good, huh? i've been afraid to shell out the cash w/out knowing.

Didn't realize they were so hard to come by. Where I used to work in the midwest, it was a pretty common item.

We had from 1-3 million candlewatt spotlights depending on how badly you wanted to blind whatever it was you shined it at.

Apparently they were mostly used for racoon hunting, since the light stunned the raccoons long enough for somebody else to club them upside the head.

Nice eh?

what the hell? you've got to be joking about the clubbing the raccoon thing, right?

you lived somewhere even more backwoods than me, i'm betting, and that's hard to do. i don't know if i should point & laugh or genuflect to your higher podunkedness.

they use a gun where i'm from (that & coon hounds, of course).

Well, 'round heah, we use whatevah we c'n git r hands on, y'heah? 'N that 'coon comes up t'ya, ya gots ta take 'im out, o'wise he'll be eatin' ya livah for breakfast.

Really, I don't know what that accent's supposed to be. I was going for hick-southern-Missouri, but I think I through in some NorthEast. Oh, well.

In Kansas City, I think there's some ordinance against those flashlights, because I've known people to get ticketed for dicking around with one. Of course, that may've been because they were being completely retarded with it, shining it into cars and people's houses. Yeah, that's probably it. And the fact that it was an old police car searchlight (how many candlewatts is that?).

MY GOD IT'S THE SUN!!!!

ok, it's a dorky day officially.

Shine it in the sun's eyes, see how he likes it for a change.

Yea my dad had one of those on his truck which made good fun when coordinated with the police siren

the actual term as far as i know is candle power. not candle watt. and yeah its just how many candles it would take to cast that much light on something. i guess you could think of it kinda like horsepower.

I hate when threads continue on from the misuse of grammar and spelling


i have a few of those million candle power spot lights, they kick ass