Thursday, December 23, 2010
The Silver Bullet
This turned out to be way more fun than I anticipated. The correct answer is more obvious from the photo below. The silver object is one of two items in LPD lore known as "the silver bullet." It is accompanied by the orange wand into which the flashlight fit for convenient carry on a belt ring, then deployed over the lens for traffic direction at night. How many officers inadvertently launched one of these friction-fit orange cones down the street while waving their flashlight a little too vigorously while directing traffic at a UNL football game, basketball games, or the Nebraska State Fair? About the same number who rattled their teeth when their whistle chain caught on a ballpoint pen or badge.
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Something you want to say about launching flashlights while directing traffic?
If only one car gets home faster from the football game because we had cops directing traffic, then those thousands of batteries will not have died in vain!
Not a pirate, but he did wear a mask and used silver bullets.
I can not remember how many lenses I broke before getting a kel light.
Car 54
Chief, if you had used one of these protective covers for your whistle, the dental trauma from the chain jerking would have been reduced.
You put a cross-shaped slot in the top of the red piece, and it would look just like a Preperation H applicator nozzle. (Not that I would know what that looks like!)
Steve @ 4:11, I agree with your comment about the similarity with the Preparation H applicator, and unfortunately, I DO know!!!!! Ouch!!!!
You could also drill a few small holes all over the silver piece, and it would look just like the bottom half of the coffee grounds holder from an old camping coffee pot my folks used to have.
I recognize that! I hope you dusted for prints. Recovered stolen property from that last Doctor Johns burglary.
10:23
Sorry to hear it. :)
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