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Man crushed to death by armored tank on Jelly Belly CEO's property
Press Democrat ^
| 25 Aug 2015
Posted on 08/25/2015 9:36:58 AM PDT by rey
Edited on 08/28/2015 4:48:42 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator.
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To: rey
Authorities say a man was accidentally crushed to death with a World War II-era tank on a Jelly Bean's chairman Herman Rowland's property in Fairfield.Reagan's fault.
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posted on
08/25/2015 10:48:02 AM PDT
by
Drew68
To: rey
Car surfing is dangerous enough... but tank surfing?!?
To: rey
Note the use of language here:
Armored tank
Military tank
These are scary, oogly-boogly words that only an ill-informed liberal wimp could come up with. Next thing you know, those big, scary tanks will also have come equipped with 30 caliber magazine ghost clips that can fire hundreds of bullets in less than ten seconds. From the hip.
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posted on
08/25/2015 10:52:21 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
To: rey
There was a boating accident in my parts where a passenger was riding on a moving boat with his legs over the side. Boat hit a bump and he fell into the water and had his arm sliced off by the outboard motor propeller.
Sometimes people do things like this without even thinking about the consequences.
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posted on
08/25/2015 10:53:51 AM PDT
by
SamAdams76
(We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
To: ObozoMustGo2012
Of course. How foolish of me.
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posted on
08/25/2015 10:59:50 AM PDT
by
CrazyIvan
(I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
To: rey
"Wright was a passenger and was sitting on the front edge of the tank."Been there. Done that. At Ft. Knox on an M-48, instructing an AIT trainee-driver (the commlink was broken) as the tank slowly teetered on its tracks at the top of a small hill, then tottered over and we rode down. The main gun was in the locked position to the rear.
To: rey
Tanks are nothing but artillery, rocket, RPG, and bullet magnets, I always tried to stay as far away from them as possible.
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posted on
08/25/2015 11:12:45 AM PDT
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: Carl Vehse
Those 47s and 48s didn’t have a lot of handholds. They were safer than the M-60 with the auto-decaptitate hatch, though. As long as you never hot-fueled them!
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posted on
08/25/2015 11:25:53 AM PDT
by
antidisestablishment
(I was mad when they changed Republican states to Red, but I now I see they were right.)
To: antidisestablishment
When the main gun is locked to the rear, the back of the turret had some rails and racks for me to grab.
To: Politically Correct
When I was in the Army we had at least one "run over by tank" death each year at Ft. Bliss In a tank battalion in the 1960s [17 tanks each in 3 companies, plus 3 more in headquarters tank section, 4 crewmembers per vehicle] we expected to have one fatality or disability per year. More than that, and there'd be a new battalion commander.
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posted on
08/25/2015 11:59:10 AM PDT
by
archy
To: Cboldt
Clearly there needed to be a warning label on the hood that sitting there was dangerous. They must sue, testify before a congressional oversight committee, and advocate for immediate passage of Kevin’s Law.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:02:18 PM PDT
by
Hoffer Rand
(Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
To: DuncanWaring
Ping. Pong. You figure me old enough to have crewed in an M5A1?
Actually, during WWII, D Company of my old outfit did have 'em, but did away with the *recon company* after the Korean War.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:03:42 PM PDT
by
archy
To: Tijeras_Slim
If these things went up against MK V Panzers, I'm surprised there are any left to run over people. 70th Armor crews were known to wire a bazooka under the 37mm [about an inch-and-a-half bore diameter] main gun tube and then connect it to the driver's horn button. Taking on a Mk V Panther would have been a bit much, but against the more usual German armoured car, halftrack or MkIII/MK IV tanks, it seemed to work okay, particularly at night or in early morning fog. But you only got one chance.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:07:52 PM PDT
by
archy
To: Carl Vehse
Wright was a passenger and was sitting on the front edge of the tank."
Been there. Done that. At Ft. Knox on an M-48, instructing an AIT trainee-driver (the commlink was broken) as the tank slowly teetered on its tracks at the top of a small hill, then tottered over and we rode down. The main gun was in the locked position to the rear. On the driver training range/ vehicle recovery area, where a newbie driver sped up going into a mud-filled waterhole instead of while climbing out of it. And I knew the hole was deeper than the driver's hatch, about halfway up to the turret. I bailed, and the gunner side track missed me by about a foot and a half.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:14:42 PM PDT
by
archy
To: rjsimmon
From the LA Times article, it would appear as though the M5 was modified and no longer has a turret. Basically making it a weak APC. From the accompanying photo, it appears to have been one of the turretless ones modified into an M4 artillery gun tow/ crew and ammo transport vehicle.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:17:27 PM PDT
by
archy
To: archy
Yep, that looks like it. Worthless POS.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:18:22 PM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: rey
If only...
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:18:40 PM PDT
by
JediJones
(The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
To: Hoffer Rand
Clearly there needed to be a warning label on the hood that sitting there was dangerous. They must sue, testify before a congressional oversight committee, and advocate for immediate passage of Kevins Law. The warning label is underneath, on the hull bottom. He may have jumped underneath to read it to make sure he didn't get hurt.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:18:56 PM PDT
by
archy
To: JediJones
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:21:15 PM PDT
by
nascarnation
(Impeach, convict, deport)
To: JediJones
![](http://images.politico.com/global/2013/11/01/dukakis_tank_2_c.jpg)
Thank you JediJ. You will note that Mr Dukakis is standing in the loader's hatch position, not the driver's or commander's. The loader's job is the one generally given to the newest rookie on the crew.
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posted on
08/25/2015 12:21:38 PM PDT
by
archy
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