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To: nickcarraway

I say, there seems to be a Chally on the bonnet.


2 posted on 06/01/2015 11:16:40 PM PDT by Riley (The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column.)
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To: Riley

In 1974, I was serving in the U.S. Coast Guard in Kargabarun, Turkey, about 60km southwest of Istanbul. At that time, the Turks and the Greeks got into it over Cyprus again. There was a Turkish tank division near us, and they took off hell-for-leather towards the Greek border. The Turks couldn’t afford the low-boy trailers to transport the tanks, so the entire division of M60’s is going down the road, on their tracks, with their turrets reversed, so they won’t break the gun if they run into anything. A civilian in the locally-produced version of a Fiat thought he was going to pass the column of tanks. Cut in front of one too close, and that tank ran right over him. The Turks weren’t going to stop for a little matter like a stupid civilian, so the entire remaining column of tanks continued to drive over the remains of the car. By the time they all passed, the Fiat looked like a beer can that had been run over, only larger.


24 posted on 06/02/2015 10:24:46 AM PDT by G-Bear (I am NOT a "vigilante." I am an "undocumented police officer.")
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To: Riley
For the second time this year, a British tank has been involved in a public crash while out on exercise in Germany.

Durn! Those Toyotas must be made of stout stuff, to have survived one such collision with a tank, then to be squashed again. Still, the Toyota trucks have a pretty good reputation for that sort of toughness.

31 posted on 06/04/2015 11:35:25 AM PDT by archy
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