Posted on 10/10/2008 10:47:06 PM PDT by microgood
An A-10 would be good, too, for urban area close air support. Very effective for those pesky standoffs.
No, I don't like the militarization of the police at all. If they have a tank, they will find a use for it even if it isn't reasonable.
did you post because you’re in marietta or like tanks? both?
More like February
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1994684/posts
did you post because youre in marietta or like tanks? both?
I like tanks but am not in marietta. I just thought it was funny that cops are getting surplus military equipment and actually thinking they have a use for it.
Trust me, anything good in Marietta gets given to City of Atlanta anyway.
I kinda agree...they will look for situations where they can drag out the tank and destroy an entire home or apartment building...just for show purposes. This isn’t law enforcement....its a “dog and pony” show.
The amusing thing...having worked with a former Army tanker...is that tanks break down often. As my associate would say....if he got thirty miles off his vehicle (which was five years old)...before some minor problem....he felt lucky. If he got 100 miles before a major problem....he felt extra special lucky.
So figure out the normal operation. Uncle Bud calls the cops because junior is hold up in the shed with rifles and is on some drug binge. The Cobb cops call Jimmy Joe (chief tanker) to bring out the vehicle. Its a 14-mile trip to the shed in question. Halfway out to the shed....Jimmy Joe discovers that the oil pressure is rapidly declining. He has a oil leak. He stops off at Barney’s tackle shop and buys five cases of oil, and tosses half of that into the tank. He charges this on the department credit card (where he makes $7k worth of oil purchase a year). Jimmy Joe drives on....then having a bearing problem somewhere and has some guy come out and fix that (nine hour wait). When the tank finally arrives....junior’s drug binge is over and the one cop there apprehended junior. The shed was never destroyed...which Uncle Jimmy is grateful for....and Jimmy Joe limps his tank back to the squad area...with the leftover remains of the oil he bought.
Thats life in Cobb county.
You nailed it. There won’t be anybody in the dept. who knows how to service an armored vehicle, and it will be broken down most of the time. Eventually (I’d guess about two years from now), the toy will be broke, nobody will want to play with it anymore anyway, the county budget won’t cover the bills to get it fixed, and it will be sold for scrap, after costing Cobb county a half million bucks or so.The only saving grace is that it’s on wheels, not tracks, so they might be able to tow it away when it blows a tranny during the July 4th parade.
Molotov cocktails take care of these pretty well if thrown in the engine area. Lights off fuel lines, electrical lines and rubber.
“It has a new engine and transmission, which will allow it to reach a speed of 60 miles per hour.”
Great, the dummies will think they can take it on the highway.
It isn’t a tank at all, so what is this thread about?
Not much chance. They build F-22's and AC130 Gunships within spittin distance of the Marietta Square. You might say this is a Lockheed town. We would just let Puff light it up.
Splain yourself Lucy. I don't know of one thing we have given to Atlanta.
Thanks for posting this. If it is going to be sitting on the square tomorrow I’ll drop by to see it.
So, which side will they beusing it on during the future general uprising, if the Obamasiah wins & tries to “CHANGE” us?
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