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To: stockpirate

Gas tank’s toward rear I assume.

Maybe the Ostapo rigged it to blow like CBS did with that Jeep on their TV special years ago.


13 posted on 06/20/2013 7:27:19 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: LyinLibs

FNC has been shut down on Snowden. Their staff have lives to live, too.....


14 posted on 06/20/2013 7:32:53 PM PDT by txhurl (RNC 'voter suppression': attempting to limit each voter to ONE vote!)
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To: LyinLibs

“with that Jeep”

It was a chevy pu truck, with side gas tanks. But yes, it was rigged.


15 posted on 06/20/2013 8:00:44 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: LyinLibs
Gas tank’s toward rear I assume.

Maybe the Ostapo rigged it to blow like CBS did with that Jeep on their TV special years ago.

See Le Carre "The Honorable Schoolboy"...where the villains put a hand grenade in the hero's car fuel tank....with the lever held down with thick elastic bands....

..eventually the gas will dissolve the rubber....

17 posted on 06/20/2013 8:20:03 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: LyinLibs
I think you are thinking of this:

Dateline NBC aired an investigative report on Tuesday, November 17, 1992, titled “Waiting to Explode”. The 60 minute program was about General Motors' Rounded-Line Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks allegedly exploding upon impact during accidents due to the poor design of fuel tanks. Dateline's film showed a sample of a low speed accident with the fuel tank exploding. In reality, Dateline NBC producers had rigged the truck’s fuel tank with remotely controlled model rocket engines to initiate the explosion. The program did not disclose the fact that the accident was staged. GM hired Failure Analysis Associates (FaAA, now Exponent) whose investigators studied the film, and discovered that smoke actually came out of the fuel tank six frames before impact. Acting on a tip from someone involved in the Dateline crash test, FaAA investigators searched through 22 junkyards in Indiana before finding the charred wreckage of the GM pickups. It was also later revealed that the Dateline report had been dishonest about the fuel tanks rupturing and the alleged 30 mph speed at which the collision was conducted. The actual speed was found to be higher, around 40 mph, and after x-ray examination of the fuel tanks from the C/K pickups used in the televised collision, it was found that they had not ruptured and were intact. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation/libel lawsuit against NBC after conducting an extensive investigation. On Monday, February 8, 1993, GM conducted a highly publicized point-by-point rebuttal in the Product Exhibit Hall of the General Motors Building in Detroit that lasted nearly two hours after announcing the lawsuit.[11] The lawsuit was settled the same week by NBC, and Jane Pauley read a 3 minute 30 second on-air apology to viewers.

I think the Jeep incident was this:

In December 1980, 60 Minutes reported that the small army-style "CJ" Jeep was dangerously apt to roll over--not only in emergencies but "even in routine road circumstances at relatively low speeds." A Jeep is shown crashing. "We'll get to precisely what the conditions were that made that single-car accident happen in a moment," promises Morley Safer. Read more on this here

Just proves the press has been liars on many subjexts for many years.

21 posted on 06/20/2013 8:45:58 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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