# An approaching vehicle has the high beams on. How do you respond? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 17, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-approaching-vehicle-has-the-high-beams-on-how-do-you-respond/671500 "2013-10-17T17:24:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![BrickaBracka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BrickaBracka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickaBracka)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2013, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-approaching-vehicle-has-the-high-beams-on-how-do-you-respond/671500/2 "2013-10-17T17:51:09Z")
ETA: Other. When I was a pizza delivery guy, I carried a 2 million candlepower spotlight beam in my car for the purpose of identifying house numbers in my rural area late at night. My response to unrepentant hi-beamers? (the ones who didn’t turn them off after being politely flashed with my lights) I pulled out the spotlight and blinded their ass immediately as they passed me. It only takes a couple second burst of photon POWAH!! If they crash, I don’t care. Fuck you and your high beams, blinding me with no concern for whether I can see the road after you pass and my night vision is all ruined. I have an eidetic memory, so it made for some lovely images of the faces of the drivers when they got flashed 🙂 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-approaching-vehicle-has-the-high-beams-on-how-do-you-respond/671500)._