Posted on 02/03/2017 11:18:37 PM PST by Daffynition
SPRING LAKE, NC -- A North Carolina sheriff's office says a man was shot during an argument over bright car headlights.
Investigators said the victim was headed down a North Carolina highway on Saturday evening when he met an oncoming vehicle with its bright lights on.
The victim flashed his lights in an attempt to get the oncoming driver to dim the bright lights.
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I just don’t flash mine anymore, unless its’ on a two lane highway, where you pass very quickly and the flasher cannot turn around. Too many Dum-Dums who can’t handle being told “What you’re doing is wrong! Stop doing it!”.
I always thought those emails I got about “Don’t flash your lights at cars with their high beams on - it is a gang initiation...” was an urban legend.
In the daytime, flashing your headlights means “there a patrol car on the other side of that hill you can’t see.” At night, it either means, “turn off your high-beams” if they are driving toward you or “please move your slow ass out of the left-hand lane” if they are driving right ahead of you.
I wouldn’t know about the ghetto. It probably means “I wouldn’t go there if I was you.”
The truth is some people have halogen lamps that are very intense, if not too bright and they can be distracting, particularly in your side-view mirror. Some times I wish I had a military-grade search light I could use on some of the dolts with the high beams.
My favorites are the clowns driving those Texas Turnovers whose headlights are five feet off the ground plus a bunch of auxiliary driving lights.
Sheesh. Well, I guess I won’t be flashing my lights at all the frickin’ slowpokes I get stuck behind anymore.
I’m pretty good about flash-warning oncoming traffic for a *cop ahead* .....one day while doing this, an unmarked state police car was in the mix of the cars I was flashing.
I haven’t seen a *look* like that since Fr. Shugrue looked my way for giggling during a sermon. :)
Back-in-the-day, b/c of the rarity of your vehicle, Porsche, VW bug, Corvette drivers all flashed a friendly *hello* to each other.
I have head about that *gang* thing in the ‘hood.
Almost the same reason why I wouldn’t protect anyone but *me & mine* when I CC. [And I wasn’t always like that]
When I put new bulbs in my truck they are pretty bright and I was getting flashed for highbeams quite a bit. I quickly figured out that if I have my highbeams on and turn them off way in advance of the oncoming car they don’t flash me.
I also usually just pass cars and try not to stay behind them - and if I do, keep a good distance. Both mindful of my headlights and just to keep a safe distance. (7 car lengths at 70 mph is a LONG way compared to how most people drive).
And I’ll turn my side mirrors down and out for the guy with the bright lights behind me when I’m on the highway.
Side note - I was in the car parts store and a guy in a Range Rover came in and had the guy look at his lights to figure out which bulb wasn’t working.
“Yeah - so you can either go with the $85 one or the $98 dollar one.” For ONE little light bulb!”
P.P.S.: The bulbs I buy are in a two pack, and I always replace them both at the same time, and toss the spare in the glove box. Heh - an extra magazine is in there too - to bring this all back on topic.
How do we know they were American? < /s >
I had a buddy who installed an aircraft nosegear landing light on his pickup truck. The local cops finally encouraged him to remove it permanently after he flashed one of them with it.
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Rules like this were made for Europeans in a European society. They are meaningless to many other cultures. My mom says she used to leave the door unlocked at night when she first moved to California. After it became blessed with diversity which is our strength because we are a nation of immigrants, you have to deadbolt, carry a small tactical nuke and have a least 3-4 angry dobermans
” Some times I wish I had a military-grade search light I could use on some of the dolts with the high beams.”
I’ve had a couple of ex-police cars with the spotlight on the A-pillar. It works pretty good for that.
I never flash my lights to warn of a cop. People driving 45 in a 25 zone deserve a ticket. I wish they WOULD ticket for tailgating - the drivers around here tailgate simply because they don’t know how to keep an interval and they too self centered to care about the dangers of tailgating.
“Yeah - so you can either go with the $85 one or the $98 dollar one.” For ONE little light bulb!”
With a Range Rover, $5 is for the bulb, the rest is for repairing the wiring.
But seriously, with some cars the bulbs are so hard to get to, the cost of replacing a bulb is mostly labor. I know a guy with a Cadillac. He told me that the stealership wanted $125 to replace a parking light bulb.
When in college I had two aircraft landing lights in the grill of my ‘66 Mustang instead of fog lights.
They were very illegal, but State Police used them, so I thought if ever stopped I’d use that argument.
On a 2-lane highway north of Indianapolis a car refused to dim his lights after my repeated flashes of my brights. Ok, time to pull out my heavy-hitters. One quick flash of my blinding aircraft landing lights. He dimmed his quickly.
I thought I was a dead man when I saw as the car passed me that it was a State Trooper. I watched for him to do a U-ey.
Nope. He just kept on going, to my great relief. Probably because he had aircraft landing lights on his car.
Back then lights were so bad you were overdriving your high-beams at 55mph......
“Back then lights were so bad you were overdriving your high-beams at 55mph...”
I had a 1966 VW sedan, the last year of 6-volt, and there was just no return from the high beams at night. So I got some halogen bulbs, but then everyone would flash at my low beams, because VWs all had dim lights, you know. It was fun showing them that those were the low beams, but THESE are the brights.
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