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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. [history]

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: abernathyroad; california; dwaynebrasher; fairfield; guncontrol; hermanrowland; jellybelly; kevinwright; lighttank; m5; m5a1; suisuncity; tank; treadhead; treadheads; vacaville
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To: archy

61 posted on 08/25/2015 12:25:40 PM PDT by archy
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To: Vendome

“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.


62 posted on 08/25/2015 12:27:27 PM PDT by rey
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To: CrazyIvan

I was wondering if anyone else would catch that.


63 posted on 08/25/2015 12:27:55 PM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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To: snippy_about_it

Treadhead ping?


64 posted on 08/25/2015 12:28:33 PM PDT by archy
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To: SamAdams76

“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.


65 posted on 08/25/2015 12:29:49 PM PDT by rey
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To: rey
It's all fun and games until someone is run over.

Driver, stop. Neutral steer left.

66 posted on 08/25/2015 12:30:27 PM PDT by archy
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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?

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.

67 posted on 08/25/2015 12:32:16 PM PDT by archy
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To: CrazyIvan

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

Great catch. Those balsa tanks never really worked well.


68 posted on 08/25/2015 12:34:25 PM PDT by rey
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To: rey

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


69 posted on 08/25/2015 12:36:03 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

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


70 posted on 08/25/2015 12:39:56 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: rjsimmon
The M5 was a piece of junk anyways. Ditto to the M4 Sherman.

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

71 posted on 08/25/2015 12:46:38 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: SamAdams76

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.


72 posted on 08/25/2015 12:56:23 PM PDT by rey
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To: archy
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.


73 posted on 08/25/2015 1:12:14 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Carl Vehse

That’s some SERIOUS slop!


74 posted on 08/25/2015 1:13:45 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Carl Vehse
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.


75 posted on 08/25/2015 1:25:26 PM PDT by archy
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To: rey

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

LOL


76 posted on 08/25/2015 2:41:04 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: archy

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”. ;-)


77 posted on 08/25/2015 3:20:44 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Noumenon

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”.


78 posted on 08/25/2015 5:35:53 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

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


79 posted on 08/25/2015 5:52:49 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Kommodor

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

Only the first time.


80 posted on 08/25/2015 5:53:16 PM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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