"Revolutionary" 6P Keeps Train Moving

Good Thing I Had My SureFire
Something tells you it's a good idea to take it along. Read how having a SureFire helped save the day for others who listened to their guts.

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In 1992 I was traveling through Austria on a night train headed to Budapest. We were awakened by the horrible sound of stones pelting the bottom of the train and the severe jolt of emergency braking. I went to the end of the car and leaned out the window to see train personnel searching beneath the train, in vain, to determine if the train had struck an animal or a person. They were using old, anemic two-cell military flashlights with very dim outputs.

I thought to myself, "We'll be here for hours if all they have are those crappy old flashlights, so I called the conductor and offered him my SureFire 6P®, which I'd brought along for my summer in Europe. He switched it on and said, "Das ist aber hell," which means, "That's really bright." With my 6P, he made quick work of the inspection and determined that it was only a deer the train had struck. We were on our way again shortly, and he returned my 6P to me with the greatest of compliments.

What could have taken a long time was reduced to minutes, thanks to the performance of my, at that time, revolutionary SureFire 6P.

Gregory D.
Mountain View, CA