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how?
EXACTLY…HTF??
how could they do that… this would actually fit in the failblog…
It’s not like they have rear windows with plenty of visibility…
That said, I think this just goes to demonstrate exactly how badass these vehicles really are.
Imagine Rush-houer with one of theez bad boyz
You don’t need to imagine, just google ‘stolen tank rampage.’ I was going to link to the video, but imagine my surprise: there has been more than one stolen tank rampage. Greatly disturbed minds think alike, I guess.
Was that the one in San Diego a couple of years ago? Talk about road rage.
Well, San Diego was the one I was thinking of, but I googled for footage and found several others, including one in Sydney. Evidently stealing a tank and going on a rampage is quite the popular pastime for nutters world wide.
I feel so much safer knowing that a complete wackaloon can get into a tank and drive it off a military base…at least they don’t store live ammo in them…makes one wonder about the whole “War on Terror”, doesn’t it?
There was one in San Andreas quite recently…
While the drivers seem to have been instructed by play GTAIII
drop in ‘ing’ after the the word ‘play’, someone? Thanks awfully…
Unc, I think I know who may have been driving that tank…[link]
Loved Lori Petti (sp?) as Tank Girl! Never got into the comics tho.
I’m not a comic book officianado, but i remember my brother used to get Tank Girl Comics all the time…puberty was such a rough time for him…
(aficionado)
*now needs therapy for recalling that whole “spelling bee fiasco” in fifth grade that I had blocked out*
I live off of therapist finder’s fees, so thanks!
Due to one teacher, I used to flinch when I had to write the word ‘garden’
I hope she died in great pain…
Jings! What did she do?
I am sometimes terrified by the sound of stilleto heels clacking at a certain speed down a corridor… But she was a good teacher. Just scary. And I didn’t do homework…
Also afficionado.
She’d have cleared the other one AND been laid by a mutant kangaroo played by Ice-T…
She’d then give birth to a “tankaroo” to be played by Ben Stiller…
Ekshually, I think the Ice T mutant didn’t get any in the movie… it was the goober that got some human pink!
True, but who remembers who played Goober?
George Lindsey?
*Bam*
I think we hit a tree, Sir.
- Never mind that just floor it in reverse.
I was thinking they were playing “chicken”…one jumped the other, and “missed it by that much”…
I think they might actually have done it on purpose so they can have a look at the undercarriage of the tank. I doubt this actually did any damage to anything other then paintwork.
Well, and the visible damage to the front of the rear tank.
BTW, why are they attaching a tow cable to the *bottom* tank? Is it really going to squirt out from under the top tank like a big watermelon seed?
They are performing the art of “Tankus Interruptus”…the guys standing around better watch out, or they’re gonna need some kleenex when it goes…
I’m disappointed, if tanks had a comprehensive sex education program they would know that it isn’t a failsafe method. Maybe we should just teach tanks how to masterbate.
I can hear Sarah Palin now… “ABSTINENCE!! ABSTINENCE I SAY!! IF SOMEONE WOULD JUST TALK TO THESE TANKS…”
“if tanks had a comprehensive sex education program they would know that it isn’t a failsafe method”
`
But then where would we get new tanks from?
From tanks in a committed relationship who are mature and financially secure enough to support a baby tank, of course.
*snort*
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BTW, cool avatar, Jane.. suits you perfectly as I know you’re hiding some arsenic in there.
Who me?
Yeah, I started with a whole tea set but you couldn’t see what it was so I went with just the pot.
Tell the truth, Jane. All of your cups are in a
locker, labeled “Exhibit A.”
(You didn’t know I had Dr. Henry Lee’s
website bookmarked, did you?)
Dr. Lee guest lectured in some courses I took in school; even got to tour his lab in Meriden once. Fascinating stuff.
but, um.. what size are Jane’s “cups”? hmmmm?
Oh, everyone already knows that…..
Yeah man, that’s old news!
Hell, there are websites and an a wiki entry on that subject…
Well certain people who shall remain nameless (no really, we don’t mention her) needed information on how to avoid back pain. Who was I to deny them?
Good point!
*mother voice*
Watch that you don’t get that tank in your eye!
The one in front had to have been backing up. And tanks are meant to be able to climb up over tall obstacles.
I’m surprised they don’t just drive the front one off. Lucky the rear guy had his turret reversed, probably would have destroyed the gun if it had been forward.
Maybe they were traveling in formation, lead tank going turret forward, rear tank with turret reversed? Is that ever done? It looks as though the kneeling soldiers are hooking up a tow cable. Maybe driving off would be impossible at that angle?
Leap Frog.
It’s terrible when they try to breed…
Fourteen months later, a cute little APC was born…
Awwww. He’s so cute!
Look, he’s already sprouting his first 7.62 co-ax!
tank buttsecks
Don’t say such things in front of the baby!
When a daddy M1A2 and a Mommy M1A2 love each other very much, expensive military hardware is needlessly destroyed. Ahh the miracle of life done by machines of death.
LOL
Rule #34… We meet again.
That is so not real
How does ‘so’ add to that?
‘That is self evidently not real’ would be a semblance of English… ‘That is really not real’ while correct is ugly. ‘That is so unreal’ is also English… I think even ‘That is so “not real”‘ is acceptable… but ‘so not real’?
Sic transit gloria mundi…
That is, like, so, like totally pedantic. Like OMG! And, like, what does ‘sick transit glorious Monday’ mean? I’m like, so confused. Like.
Fer sure–totally! I mean, I was like, “What???”
Yo, I feel you Rho, Seth is like so totally like a smart guy.
*feels so totally dumber for having posted that*
Oh jings….. It’s as though my Dad is on PK right now…. If you start to annoy me about my glo[tt]al stop I’ll know it really is him…
Along the lines of “there are two “T”s in “butter” so that you pronounce AT LEAST ONE of them.”
Gah!
So, like, you mean its like “but-Tah”, not like “bu-ah”?
Buh-urr
(How does one write down the sound of a glottal stop?)
IDK, but I’m sure Diss or Rho could help with that…they seem to be our linguistic/grammar experts… me…not so muchly!
Glottal stops (glottal plosives) are represented
by the symbol “Ê”” in the International Phonetic
Alphabet. How’s that for useless knowledge?
Wow! I di’nt know there was an official symbol. Usually I just see the apostrophe used.
Oh-no-you dÃÊ”-’unt!
Gnah. I’ve been reading so much about horse breeding lately, my first thought was “Ah well, that foal will have good conformation”. ;p
Sordid barely even begins to describe it.
Real life boyfriends would seem inadequate afterwards, I would think…
I will just have to take your word on that Mark and book you a flight to Mexico… They would pay to watch you.
And I will give you the number of a good proctologist for afterward…maybe he could recommend a nice, soothing balm or something…
In such a case, Mark should ask for dissolving stitches, one
would think…
And depending on how much stamina the horse has, Mark may even need to be re-shoed!!
There, there Mark…it’ll be ok…
*hands Mark a carrot and a sugarcube*
*walks a way and makes a neighing sound*
Mind if I call you ‘Hoss’ from now on?
Mind? He insists!
Damn it! That was me, my computer is infected and my cousin has it in his lair. Charlie told me to use his computer because he wanted to use the house computer to play his stupid Age of Empires game.
Shoot, and I had a welcome all ready..
Neigh, they have their merits too. Fingers.
BLUCHER!
The name’s Blücher, Frau Blücher
*whinnies*
I thought it was going to be a sexual joke since I did not scroll down far enough to see the people. Like, ‘So uh, can I get your number?” “Uhm.. maaaybe later..” but it wasn’t so I failed.
Le sigh.
This one cracked me up; I also really liked Mothergoose’s and Eddiepscetti’s takes on this photo.
Why thank you, Diss…sometime I’ll have to share my college experience with Everclear Jello Cubes…
I know where this happened
*having an ’80′s flashback*
Ok…if you’re maverick, and I’m mother”goose”…where’s our F-16?…oh wait, that’s right, you get me killed in the movie you arrogant pr!ck… (kidding, of course)
That’s because every time you go up in the air, you’re unsafe.
Bumpersticker on airplane: GRAVITY SUCKS!!
It’s a real downer.
it was an F-14 I believe. and you should have ducked when you ejected…
What a fountain of knowledge are you! *is awestruck*
Looking at the photo, the damage isn’t just chipped paint. The top tank’s rear hatch is torn off and the 120mm main gun is probably bent or pushed back out of battery. The bottom tank’s front is probably damaged and there is a good chance the track-guards are crumpled. The bottom tank’s bustle rack (the frame box on the rear of the turret for stowage) is probably destroyed and the ammunition storage in the rear of the turret is proably damaged (especially the top panels which are left thin to ensure an ammunition cook-off goes up away from the tank rather than inside the turret. I saw an M1A2 in Kosovo grind a wrecked car into scrap in about 5 seconds. We also use them to destroy vehicles used by the enemy in Iraq (you get caught smuggling weapons, your car gets flattened).
It seems odd to me that only two crew are visible. This *may* have been done on purpose as a training exercise for recovery.
I guess the upshot of it is: Tanks are very tough, but they are also very heavy! (And they have all sorts of relatively delicate “bits” hanging off them that may well object to having 70 tons try to drive over them.)
You do raise a very interesting point: What would have happened if they had been carrying a full load of ammo? I realise that good ammo is very stable until you want it to go off, but surely there are limits to the amount of abuse a 120mm shell will take!
The shells are stored horizontally in a heavily armored compartment at the rear of the turret. The top of the compartment is thin to allow an explosion from killing the crew (they are protected by a set of heavy blast doors). Odds are nothing would have happened with a full load since the blast doors are only open when the loader activates a switch.
I saw an ammunition cook-off in Bosnia in 1993 when an A-10 rolled in on a T-55 (could have been a T-62) and hit it with a Maverick guided missile. The turret flew at least 60ft into the air like a bottle rocket (probably a 20 ton casting) and the engine was thrown out the rear of the vehicle. The only thing left of the crew that the NATO guys ever found were teeth…every thing else was torched.
In 1993, the guys on the ground would’ve been UNPROFOR (some, but not all of whom were from NATO countries). NATO would come in on the ground two years later, which might make finding the teeth problematic.
Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doing 80?!?!?! Do you have tools?! Can you fix this?! It even FEELS damaged!
that sounds guite disturbing out of context….
QUITE not guite, sounds like a real word though….
dane cook FTW
I was in my kitchen washing a dish..
haha i saw this on family guy lastnight only it was peter and a deer and they were cars not tanks but the said exactly the same thing
Makin’ more tanks, brb.
Dies ist ein großer Ort. Ich möchte hier noch einmal.
tanks for the memories!
cattle
Your tax dollars at work.
It’s St. Vith range in Fort Knox Ky. They weigh like 70 tons there is no excuse. Even with limited rear visibility they have to have a ground guide for all vehicles over 2.5 tons. Plus the Tank Commander can just look backwards from the top. That took speed.
is dey makin a hummer?
naw. dey makin wunna Deez.