strobes in tails/front turns

[bjoehandley]

You might rethink that WebDog:shocked:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWv8RQZl0Eg

 

[WebDog]

Ahhh Poor jeep!! we need to assemble a rescue team...

 

[jeeptorino68]

thanks for all the info and stuff guys.
i never got back to this thread due to holidays, traveling, presents etc etc.

i was thinking of using them for stuck on the side of the road situations, they would be amber, or clear, no red, blue, green.

i was interested in them so that people would see me on the side of the road, if/when i break down, or to help others...

 

[souske]

thanks for all the info and stuff guys.
i never got back to this thread due to holidays, traveling, presents etc etc.

i was thinking of using them for stuck on the side of the road situations, they would be amber, or clear, no red, blue, green.

i was interested in them so that people would see me on the side of the road, if/when i break down, or to help others...

Dont forget about the "moth effect"

 

[casm]

Dont forget about the "moth effect"

Or the potential for attracting whackers* who want to know how to rig up something similar for their whackermobiles**.

* Whacker: one who lives under permanent delusions of being somehow associated with EMS or law enforcement despite their nearest claim to actually being a part of those fields is having once watched an Adam-12 rerun on TV Land.

** Whackermobile: any vehicle owned by a whacker and decked out with an overabundance of strobes, antennae, and anything else that can feed into their delusions of being a valuable part of the public safety apparatus without actually getting them arrested for impersonation. Picking a directly-relevant example:

Note that I'm not casting aspersions of whackerdom on people running strobes; there are legitimate reasons for having them. Just giving an illustrated (and, sadly, mild) example of when it goes too far.

 

[bjoehandley]

Dont forget about the "moth effect"

That would be my only concern.

Or the potential for attracting whackers* who want to know how to rig up something similar for their whackermobiles**.

* Whacker: one who lives under permanent delusions of being somehow associated with EMS or law enforcement despite their nearest claim to actually being a part of those fields is having once watched an Adam-12 rerun on TV Land.

** Whackermobile: any vehicle owned by a whacker and decked out with an overabundance of strobes, antennae, and anything else that can feed into their delusions of being a valuable part of the public safety apparatus without actually getting them arrested for impersonation. Picking a directly-relevant example:

Note that I'm not casting aspersions of whackerdom on people running strobes; there are legitimate reasons for having them. Just giving an illustrated (and, sadly, mild) example of when it goes too far.

Holy cow, that's real? Kinda......................scary:wow:

 

[casm]

Holy cow, that's real? Kinda......................scary:wow:

I worked with a guy a few years back who fell directly into the whacker category.

He drove a black 2WD Avalanche. Cop-style pushbars, hidden strobes in the front & rear windows as well as the grille, diagonal-stripe high-visibility tape down the sides, four antennas (CB, 2m/70cm ham transceiver, *two* scanners), and the bed loaded down with traffic cones, recovery straps, jumper cables, battery-powered strobe lights, etc. Completing the tableau was the 'Police Interceptor' badge from a Crown Vic that he'd found on eBay proudly attached to the tailgate.

Basically, his thing was driving around L.A. with the scanners permanently rotating through the police, EMS, and fire frequencies, CB on channel 9, and the ham rig tuned to whatever repeater was the whackermagnet of the time - and 'responding' to 'incidents'. What this usually meant was finding someone on the side of the freeway in the middle of changing a flat and annoying the crap out of them by parading around in a reflective orange vest while his Chevy lit up the shoulder like it was Christmas instead of ignoring them like every other decent human being on the road.

One day he apparently 'responded' to an 'incident' in which the police had cordoned off a street by going one street over and driving down an unblocked alley into the blocked street after being told to get lost. He never really went into detail about what happened after the cop caught him sneaking back in, but apparently the officer was thoroughly unimpressed that he had graduated from the LAPD Explorers programme a quarter of a century previously.

I really loathe whackers. These tools do nothing but get in the way of people who are actually capable of helping.

 

[bjoehandley]

That is scary, I've never heard of this bunch before and now I know to stay the hell away, to tell them to do so if I'm in such a position!

 

[jeeptorino68]

all i can say is wow. that is insane, i have never heard of that somehow, and there is no way i wanted to take it that far, just wanted something better then 4 way flashers on a dark night.
well i will probably never get to installing strobes anyways, was just wondering what people think and have seen before.

that story of the guy in the avalanche truck is insane though, who does that?!?!?

 

[souske]

However it is funny they guy blurred his plate, but not his callsign, which is even easier to look up. Congrats Geoff Haines, of west central florida! N1GY FTL

 

[casm]

However it is funny they guy blurred his plate, but not his callsign, which is even easier to look up. Congrats Geoff Haines, of west central florida! N1GY FTL

Chances are it wasn't the owner who did that - I just pulled the photos from http://www.hamsexy.com/cms/?p=212 . They do that to most vehicles that turn up there. Callsign is OK to leave readable since part of having a ham licence is that you agree to be listed in a publically-accesible database, so if you choose to plaster your call everywhere that's your hard cheese.

Once had a guy in a van with an Amateur Radio plate cut me off in traffic and give me the finger; his attitude was surprisingly different over the phone after a quick check of the FCC's ULS database and the white pages gave me just about every piece of info about him other than what he had for breakfast that morning. Amusingly, he kept asking during the call how I'd got his home phone number and address.

 

[bjoehandley]

all i can say is wow. that is insane, i have never heard of that somehow, and there is no way i wanted to take it that far, just wanted something better then 4 way flashers on a dark night.
well i will probably never get to installing strobes anyways, was just wondering what people think and have seen before.

that story of the guy in the avalanche truck is insane though, who does that?!?!?

Probably someone not much more stable as the than the whack job in Tucson:wow:

 

[coldoath]

Chances are it wasn't the owner who did that - I just pulled the photos from http://www.hamsexy.com/cms/?p=212 . They do that to most vehicles that turn up there. Callsign is OK to leave readable since part of having a ham licence is that you agree to be listed in a publically-accesible database, so if you choose to plaster your call everywhere that's your hard cheese.

Once had a guy in a van with an Amateur Radio plate cut me off in traffic and give me the finger; his attitude was surprisingly different over the phone after a quick check of the FCC's ULS database and the white pages gave me just about every piece of info about him other than what he had for breakfast that morning. Amusingly, he kept asking during the call how I'd got his home phone number and address.

Hahaha legit!!:cheers: