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More recently and with the price of LED lights being really low I have found myself buying cheapo 5 LED rear lights by the box, use them for a couple of weeks and they start to get scratched and dirty then I replace them and hand out the old ones to random people as I'm cycling. Have given away 5-10 lights across the winter, one I had seen them again and noticed it was still in use so good deed done I guess.
The last one I gave out was to a mother who was jogging while her child was cycling near the clapham junction end of clapham common around 8pm so dark and the route they took the kid biked clean across a zebra crossing with little regard for traffic then turned off the path and near enough vanished so unclipped a light and handed it to them.
Thinking back about it after and with similar debates like helmet promotion putting people off cycling could it have done more bad than good? I didn't highlight the danger or anything I just passed them the light and said "please take this, you can clip it to his hood or belt hoops" but even that might stir up the idea cycling as a whole was dangerous and not just cycling unequipped/badly.