I say, there seems to be a Chally on the bonnet.
The folks in the UK are paying over a grand for this.
"Crush a Car - for ONLY £445.00, spectators £10 each"
Huh, I thought the limeys are so broke they couldn’t afford a tank.
Tanks a lot for tracking this down.
Could’ve turret out worse.
Don’t bring a Japan tin can to a tank fight!
Godzilla vs. Bambi.
They are going to put an eye with that thing.
Those are not made to be on roads in peacetime
Remember this crazy incident?
Must see YouTube video.
Stolen Tank Leads Police On Wild Chase Through San Diego:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vESIVemfG8
Was she good looking?
The spokesperson could not confirm whether the tank was going forward or reversing at the time.
Uh. No more comment.
Small price to pay for not speaking Russian.
I hate it when that happens to my bonnet...
In this case since tanks are big, slow and less maneuverable than a car, I'd assume it's the young driver's fault. Even so, she'll probably get a new car from the Brits.
We are so screwed.
An Army friend in the 1960s would follow columns of US tanks—writing US checks as they took out signs, gardens, mailboxes, and the corners of buildings. (Narrow roads).
When I was stationed in Germany in the mid-1960's, a German driver made the one-time mistake of cutting in and out of a line of Chieftain tanks belonging to the British Army of the Rhein on their way to a gunnery exercise. The difference between that incident and this one, the passage of years excepted, was that the vehicle involved was a Volkswagon rather than a Toyota.
Unfortunately for the VW driver, the lead tank in the column, the last one he needed to pass and be on his merry way, suddenly came to a complete halt from a speed of around 35-40 miles per hour. The VW driver cranked his wheel as hard as he could to the left, likely hoping to pass on that side of the tank, but alas, not enough room. And unfortunately, the driver of the tank he had just passed had the same thought and also cut to the left side, unfortunately inhabited by the now-halted VW. It did not make much of a speed bump.
The NATO reporting paperwork even in those days was massive, more so if any participants were killed. Happily, the crushed VW contained a still alive but terrified driver, whose hands could not be prised from the steering wheel, and who was drooling and mumbling incoherently.
Nevertheless, the tank driver who had crushed the VW began the paperwork process, one of the first orders of business being to try to read the mangled number plate of the VW. Some work with a tanker's 9-foot-long prybar and a sledge hammer moved enough of the crumpled-over metal for a good reading, and the next line on the form inquired as to the damage to the civilian vehicle. Ina classic example of Brit squaddie understatement, he wrote:
Tread scratches on roof.
Main battle tanks always have right of way. Always.
Failure of smaller vehicle to yield right of way results in unintentional immediate redecoration and public sculpture.
Hat tip to snippy_about_it who pinged me.
It was either Grayling or Battle Creek but a local resident called our unit during one Annual Training complaining about a tracked artillery piece in his garden. At least they didn’t park it on his car.