What the heck is this?

[Alpo]

While perusing Amazon I came upon this emergency kit. 

 

 

For the small price of $30 you can get this, which will HELP SAVE YOUR LIFE. 🤔

 

They don't give a list. So I'm looking at it trying to decide what is there. 

 

We got one of them emergency ponchos, got a Ferro rod firestarter. A paracord bracelet (always a handy thing to have, or so they tell me, although I've managed to survive this long without having one). A multi-tool. It ought to be a good one. The first Leatherman I bought was $40 and that was more than 40 years ago. I see the current price is running around 100 or more. 

 

I think the black thing in the lower right is a whistle. We have a wire saw (I've been told they make a fine garrote, but are not really very useful for cutting wood), and a compass. A flashlight next to one of those credit card knives. A pen next to the flashlight. And between the flashlight and the paracord bracelet --- a laser pointer????

 

Is that what it looks like to y'all? 

 

If so, can you come up with an idea of why they would have a laser pointer in an emergency kit?

[Cypress Sun]

 

In case you run into a cat. 

 

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

Looks like somebody's version of an EDC kit. Rain poncho, cerro rod WITH striker, paracord bracelet, LASER, Tactical Pen, flashlight, card multitool, something to hang a water bottle on your belt, compass, wire saw, multi tool, and emergency whistle that can be heard for about 100 feet. Basic kit for somebody who doesn't know any better, and probably better than most people carry.

There's a thousand of these out there and the majority of them are no better than this one.

[Subdeacon Joe]

Per ChatGPT

 

Looking at the whole kit, I think it is a small dual-function LED flashlight/work light.

The giveaway is the context and construction:

The long white rectangular window on the side is characteristic of a COB-style work light, designed to illuminate broadly rather than project a beam.

The button on the side would switch the light modes.

The small opening in the silver end is consistent with the conventional forward-facing LED.

There is already a separate, more conventional black cylindrical flashlight immediately to its right.

The black object farther right is clearly the tactical pen.

The kit also contains the usual cheap survival-kit assortment: paracord bracelet, compass, multitool card, wire saw, fire starter, rain poncho, etc.

And this particular assortment is very much in the ecosystem of the inexpensive "survival kit" products that advertise combinations of a tactical flashlight, tactical pen, compass, paracord bracelet, wire saw, multitool card and rain poncho. �

[Alpo]

7 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

long white rectangular window on the side

I thought that was a pocket clip. I've had laser pointers about the size of a ballpoint pen and they all came with a pocket clip.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

26 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

The long white rectangular window on the side is characteristic of a COB-style work light, designed to illuminate broadly rather than project a beam.

The button on the side would switch the light modes.

The small opening in the silver end is consistent with the conventional forward-facing LED.

 

18 minutes ago, Alpo said:

I thought that was a pocket clip. I've had laser pointers about the size of a ballpoint pen and they all came with a pocket clip.

It's a LASER. You can see the warning label, circled in red. And it IS a pocket clip. Joe, are we not wearing our reading glasses?

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 12:17 AM by Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770

[Alpo]

Yeah, I saw the warning label. That's why I figured it was a laser pointer. I just could not figure out why they would have a laser pointer in a survival kit.

[Subdeacon Joe]

11 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

are we not wearing our reading glasses?

 

Cataracts and small phone screen. 

 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

18 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Cataracts and small phone screen. 

 

That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Contacts and a 23" desktop.

[Eyesa Horg]

30 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Yeah, I saw the warning label. That's why I figured it was a laser pointer. I just could not figure out why they would have a laser pointer in a survival kit.

In case you're being chased by a plane, you can blind the pilot. 😉

[Alpo]

After world War iii, and you're running from a MIG?

[Subdeacon Joe]

1 hour ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

Contacts and a 23" desktop.

 

Contacts don't do anything for cataracts.  When I went in for whatever measurements they need before surgery the tech said,  "I know you won't see thus light with your right eye,  so look here with your left." 

 

My glasses have the left lens ground for long and middle distances,  so reading is a challenge.

[Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770]

4 hours ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

Contacts don't do anything for cataracts.  When I went in for whatever measurements they need before surgery the tech said,  "I know you won't see thus light with your right eye,  so look here with your left." 

 

My glasses have the left lens ground for long and middle distances,  so reading is a challenge.

You planning to have them fixed? 

[Subdeacon Joe]

21 minutes ago, Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 said:

You planning to have them fixed? 

 

Oh, yeah.  But there's a huge backlog. The ophthalmologist os trying to expedite it to 6 months rather than a year.

 

My old insurance kept sending me to places that didn't actually do the surgery, and the surgery outfits didn't take that insurance. I  got frustrated and gave up. 

Switched to Kaiser this year. They do the whole package.

[sassnetguy50]

It should be a laser flare.