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True Stories
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Keeping Bad Guys at Bay
See how SureFire is taking away the cover of darkness from bad guys who go bump in the night.
| Flashlight Foils Fuel Heist |
Every night I head out to deliver tens of thousands of gallons of gasoline to 24-hour gas stations, and I always take along my SureFire G3™ as my primary helper. One night I was making a 9,000-gallon delivery at 2 a.m. on a moonless night. The station had no lights in back of the building where the tanks were located. As I was preparing to open the valves on my tanker to pour gas through a four-inch hose at a rate of 350 gallons per minute, a vehicle pulled around the back of the station where I was working and turned off its headlights. Two men got out of the car and demanded that I give them my wallet and leave the tractor-trailer for them to take. I immediately pointed and flashed my 105-lumen G3 directly into their faces to see who they were. The driver got back in the car, and the passenger started to approach me. I put the light in his face again and he walked right in to the fender of the car.
He jumped into the car and the driver backed in to a concrete-filled pole while trying to get away. I was truly surprised my SureFire flashlight was so effective at deterring the robbers. I made the purchase so I would have one small light to illuminate my work area, but the salesman had told me it was also a personal-protection device; I had no idea how well it would work for that. It protected my cargo, the general public, and my life.
Thank you for such a fine product-it was well worth the $59 price tag. By the way, the police later found the car and the failed robbers after spotting a car with a bumper with a large spot of yellow paint on it-left by the pole they hit trying to get away so quickly.
Bob P.
Whitehouse, TX |
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