Actually, it is Yuasa, the supplier and much to the chagrin of CluckU, the Six Sigma community solved the problem.Chizzang wrote:Boeing is having the same problem with those rechargeable's...CID1990 wrote:
we stopped carrying those metal maglites on my department in the late 80s. Went to the plastic kind
when you are standing in front of a suspect at night with notebook in one hand and maglite in the other and the dude decides he wants to fight.... you dont throw down the light and grab your baton... you just hit him with the light. those maglites can kill
which brings me to a funny story
my partner was in a fight with a dude and whacked him with his plastic light because he couldnt get his baton out. the plastic light broke into a few pieces. later that night (or in the wee morning hours) we were sitting in the patrol car and he was messing with the battery which had come out of the light. it was one of those early rechargeable ones that was not meant to come out of the flashlight.... the whole light went into the charger. anyway, the wrapping had come off the battery and he was messing with it and it sparked and exploded in the car and set the cloth seat on fire
by the time we got the extinguisher out of the trunk the front seat was toast
good times
My point was up there - and its something you already know - as a 20 something, such as I was at the time, I wasn't quite aware that damn near ANYTHING was a deadly weapon, including pay phones and flashlights...
Later that night (after the shock of the incident wore off) that was all me and my buddies could talk about was that we just witnessed a very serious fight - quite literally for life or death - and the weapons of choice were a phone and a flashlight
a real eye opener for me... Little Chizzy grew up some that day
Eat that Cluck Foo.
