Man crushed to death by armored tank on Jelly Belly CEO's property

Press Democrat ^ | 25 Aug 2015

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FAIRFIELD

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“I wasnat the Jelly Belly store last night and wanted a sample of sour gummy worms.

Bought a bag...didn’t want to but, had to.

Went home and ate 1/2 the bag.

Woke up with a mouth full of food coloring

Drinking coffee to wash it out, this Morning”

Your story is more gross than the image of someone squished by a tank.

[Professional Engineer]

I was wondering if anyone else would catch that.

[archy]

Treadhead ping?

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“Boat hit a bump “

You have bumps in your lakes? Maybe speed bumps or are the local officials lax in filling the holes in the lake?

I heard of a similar thing happening when hitting a wave.

[archy]

It's all fun and games until someone is run over.

Driver, stop. Neutral steer left.

[archy]

Boat hit a bump “

You have bumps in your lakes? Maybe speed bumps or are the local officials lax in filling the holes in the lake?

The boat may have hit a guy who fell off the front of the boat, which is what the boaties call the bow. Interestingly, that's also whan tank crewdawgs call it.

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“Is there such a thing as an unarmoured tank? Kind of defeats the purpose.”

Great catch. Those balsa tanks never really worked well.

[SamAdams76]

Wave...bump...it hardly matters when you are sitting on the edge of a fast moving boat.

[Kommodor]

I’d love to have one, but I doubt it would fit in my garage...

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

The M5 was a piece of junk anyways. Ditto to the M4 Sherman.

But as Napoleon observed, "Quantity has a quality all its own."

[rey]

Hardly matters? Are you saying boaters lives don’t matter? You may find yourself apologizing on national TV. Of course it matters whether it was a wave or a bump or the Loch Ness monster.

I sure hope you realize I’m not serious. I just thought bumps in the water were funny. Sort of like the lake is a motocross course. Enjoy your day.

[Carl Vehse]

Back even earlier when I was an AIT-trainee at Ft. Knox and driving an M-48 across a wide snow-covered gully, I told my tank instructor the ground ahead didn't seem too solid. He said to go ahead, upon which I drove on and sank the tank in oozing thick mud up to the top tread (sort of like the M-41 tank below). I was told the penalty for an instructor getting his tank stuck was a case of beer for each tank needed to help. It took two other tanks with tow cables to pull us out.

[nascarnation]

That’s some SERIOUS slop!

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I was told the penalty for an instructor getting his tank stuck was a case of beer for each tank needed to help. It took two other tanks with tow cables to pull us out.

I have seen two VTRs and four M60 tanks cabled together to pull one German Leo I out of the mud in turret defilade. And that was with the Leos tracks churning away.

Some of those panzerfahrers were good at that sort of thing.

[Vendome]

Yeah but, it was a gutsy story....

LOL

[DuncanWaring]

Actually, I figured you’d read about the guy falling off the front and say “I’ve never before seen anyone drunk enough to make that mistake”. ;-)

[DuncanWaring]

About 20 “or so” years ago, I read a story in a newspaper about some guy who’d been arrested for some reason, and was found to be in possession of, among other things, a “military-style entrenching tool”.

[Noumenon]

Because we all know that civilian style entrenching tools are entirely less scary.

[PLMerite]

“I’d love to have one, but I doubt it would fit in my garage...”

Only the first time.