I wonder if they did similar testing on the expandable baton (ASP). The effectiveness on Rodney King was not the best in terms of proper police usage or publicity.

I like the flash light, the tactical bezel is a nice touch, some people call those forehead stamps.... What type of battery is in it? Does it have memory?

Bought a rather cheap maglite looking LED flashlight of unknown make 2 years ago.. have used it everytime i needed a handy torch.. and have never had to swap the single AA battery in it so far.. might need to soon. like in another 6 months.. and i estimate it has had its light on for more than 30+ hours by now :P watertight and robust enough to survive me bringing it in my motorbike jacket too ;)

The flashlight looks like a good idea if it works.

Tasering methed up sheep?? Hmmmm-mixed feelings. I'm in favor of testing things on animals before they test them on me, or other humans. But ... most of the guys that died when the LEOs tased them while jacked on meth were no great loss to society. I think it's a toss up.

I have an LED Mag-Lite rolling around the floor of my pick-up in case I'm attacked by sheep on meth.

Where does the $9.99 price come from? The Great-Lite website has the rechargeable car light listing from $22 to $30.

Must be a lot of sheep lovers or meth heads reading this.
Or could it be anti Surefire, anti Pelican light People?

on another note, if the tazer does not work you could always take the flashlight and mesmorize the sheep with it!

A flash light is always useful, especially if you can recharge it in your car.

Looks like a great item to have on hand.

All flashlights that are in my truck are childproof and spouse resistant due only to their location :)

Did they use the new flashlight to find the sheep before they tazed' em bro? Did they also sell the wool to make sweeters you couldn't resist to buy? Or was this on an episode of BREAKING BAD?

I remember the Strasbourg tests, in which hundreds of man sized goats were shot to test handgun lethality. Glad to see that that sheep were finally able to get into the act. Next up; using Great Danes to find out if broccoli gives you gas.

No offense to the testers, but tasing meth heads is most big city cops' favorite outdoor sport. If tasing meth heads killed them, we'd know already. I'd like to know how effective the tasers were at putting the kibosh on those sheep, however. I've seen coke and meth heads soak up the current to jump-start a battleship (after inhaling enough pepper spray to gag a grizzly) and still run around afterwards.

The reason the U.S. Military went from .38 caliber revolvers back to the S&W .45 during the Phillipine insurrection was the fact that drug-crazed Moros would soak up .38 bullets like a sponge and keep attacking. The .45 would put them off their feet. Now, I'm not saying meth heads should be shot with a .45; that would not be politically correct for the police to do. Then again, maybe they should.

thanks david, i like knowing about decent products at a resonable price. the fact that is electric blue, which is my favorite color doesnt hurt matters either. as for the dope feind sheep, and the tasing, i will pass. realisticly, if a person is on drugs and the cops have to tase him/her to get them restrained, and they have a medical problem in the meantime due to illegal drugs, which they took of their own free will, that is just tough shi*. chances are, if they were decent people, they wouldnt be in the mess to begin with. the people in this country need to stand up, take responsibility for their own actions, and get tough. if this does not happen soon, this once great country is going to die. and it will be a miserable death.

Bella:

Today's law enforcement is burdened by a two pronged problem.

1. Back when there were height, weight, and gender requirements for police, cops could do their thinking with their fists (or use Jujutsu, Aikido, etc.). Now there are no height and weight requirements and you are as apt to run into a 5'6" 130 pound female officer as anyone bigger. You cannot ask or train the 6'3", 225 pound officer to do anything you don't expect the 5'6" officer to be able to do as well and vice-versa.

2. This is a dirty age. In these needle happy days, when you grapple with a perp, you may also be grappling with a case of active tuberculosis, infectious Hepatitis A, B, C, D, or HIV. Nobody wants anyone's sweat, snot, or blood on any part of him/herself any more.

Hence the taser.

You aren't really angry with the taser, Bella. If you have taken Aikido, you know you can cause exquisite pain using your hands alone. I like the idea of the taser; I just don't know how effective they are. Do those little hand held, walkie talkie type units work?

I read the sheep article, and I don't think an anesthetized sheep on meth is quite the same as a REALLLLY awake tweaker on meth. I wonder if theres a bunch of 'twitchy' sheep runnin around now.

Good point, Johntalbot;
No car battery, no flashlight battery, what then ?

Lesson #43721 is cheap flashlights suck???

I thought it was further up the list........

LED Maglites are great, batteries last for months, the bulbs last dang near forever (got REALLY tired of replacing those expensive 2AA Mag bulbs), also got a 2D LED Maglite, over a year ago, still original batteries! And the kid even took it to Boy Scout camp!
Both are almost as bright as a standard Maglite, only drawback is a LED light does not start dimming as the batteries wear down, so you get no advance notice before the light just shuts off!

And yeah, I found out the hard way not to leave a flashlight in the truck in the winter, had a flashlight in my hunting pack which I forgot about and left it in the truck overnight. Went to use it to walk out of the woods after sunset and no amount of cussing and beating would get it to turn on. I tried.
Collected quite a few bruises before getting out by cell phone light. Thank God for lighted screens.

There is a company out there (Nite-Ize) making LED conversions for all Mag-Lite flashlights (AA, C&D). They also make tailcap switches for the mini-mags. Bright light and they last a long time.

Stop being a cheapskate! Don't trust your life or the lives of people you care about to sub-standard equipment. As for me, I would not be without my Sure-Fire(s). I own 4, and have given several away as gifts. I have had 7 "vacations" to Iraq and Afghanistan, with lots and lots of night pre-flight inspections, and night missions, (more than 500 combat sorties). I have used Sure-Fire flashlights over the last 10 years, in all conditions imaginable, punctuated by Alaska and Wyoming winters, and hunting and fishing in-between. I have put these flashlights to the test, and they have passed every one. I would not be without one. I won't fly without one, not in Air Force planes, not as a private pilot, and I won't go afield without one, period.

I know, the batteries are expensive, but if you search the internet, you can find those for around $1 each. I buy in bulk, and keep plenty on-hand. The very best light Sure-Fire makes is the G2 LED. The price is very resonable (for what you get),it's tough, it has a brilliant white light that runs a long, long time on a set of batteries, and as far as I know, the bulb lasts forever. The incandescent Sure-Fire lights are very bright, but they use expensive bulbs that can be prone to failure if dropped after or during extensive use. I keep spares.

I've never had cold affect the performace of my Sure-Fire, I'm sure that it could, but I just haven't seen it.
If cold kills the batteries in your flashlight, they needed replacing anyway.
Just my two-cents worth.
AKX

According to Great Neck tools, the item is 32806 Mini Rechargeable
Flashlight for $9.99. Found on newark-tools.com

i think this would be a great light to keep with you in your car or truck i am going to look into getting one because i am always needing a light

Yes Focusfront, I can cause exquisite pain using Aikido compliance techniques, but I try not to hurt people. A disadvantage of Aikido is that it takes years to get good and yes you can train with a taser in a day. It is the old longbow versus crossbow argument.
I don't object to LEO's using their tasers to subdue violent individuals armed with hand to hand weapons. I learned how to take a sword out of a mans hand (or a pistol) but I too would rather face a sword with a taser than bare handed.
I object to gratuitous use of tasers on the unarmed and restrained(like that poor old lady who must have weighed all of 90 pounds they tased) Any LEO must know that they are always in daylight and are always under watch. To hold the power a policeman does, his moral quality must be the highest, but we have been approaching a dichotomy,is a policeman a paladin who serves the people in the community or the community as institution?
As far s physical size goes though, it is irrelevant to a skilled Aikidoist, I have seen tiny women throw big men 3 times their size. I have thrown big men myself.It ain't the size of the dog, it is the size of the fight in the dog!