Bulldozer Rampage

I see in the news someone got carried away with a dozer in Australia and took out 4 cars and a house! Thank God nobody was hurt.

(quoted from post at 18:45:59 06/08/15) I see in the news someone got carried away with a dozer in Australia and took out 4 cars and a house! Thank God nobody was hurt.

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ounds like a marriage ending badly to me.

I remember when a fella in Mannheim, Germany got a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend back stateside and tried to sign out a firing pin the 105mm main gun for an M60 tank, which should have been the first red flag to check him out, but they didn't. He went to the motor pool and took an M60 tank and went downtown Mannheim and tore up anything and everything that got into his way. An M60 weighs an awful lot and there's not a lot of things that can stop one. He was crossing a bridge over the Rhine Neckar river, the Polizei were at the other end of the bridge poised to...get run over by him, he got scared and tried to spin around and go back the other way, went through the side bridge rail, down into the river and drown.

Mark

From Stars And Stripes

Everything in Australia tries to kill you; snakes, spiders, crocs, even the bulldozers.

Great - now we are going to have laws restricting who can own a bulldozer.

Didn't they have someone do that in California some time back? Got hung up on a highway divider and that's when they got him.

Now that is the way to do it. All style and not for the chicken hearts!

Hope Tru-Tv gets a copy of the video!

Yep. I forgot all about that. Was a Reserve or Guard guy that reached his limit and boiled over. I forgot that and forgot what happened to the fella.

Mark

Had someone in 1970 71 get drunked up and went to the motor pool got one of the tank retrievers and went for a ride downtown Kaiserslauten. Ran over several cars and a cop car before they got him stopped. We never saw him again. Had 2 guys in our company try to play pirate with a MOFAB ( mobile floating asult bridge) and ran over 3 VW bugs on the Depot. They had to pay for the cars plus got demoted

(quoted from post at 16:13:06 06/08/15) I remember when a fella in Mannheim, Germany got a "Dear John" letter from his girlfriend back stateside and tried to sign out a firing pin the 105mm main gun for an M60 tank, which should have been the first red flag to check him out, but they didn't. He went to the motor pool and took an M60 tank and went downtown Mannheim and tore up anything and everything that got into his way. An M60 weighs an awful lot and there's not a lot of things that can stop one. He was crossing a bridge over the Rhine Neckar river, the Polizei were at the other end of the bridge poised to...get run over by him, he got scared and tried to spin around and go back the other way, went through the side bridge rail, down into the river and drown.

Mark

From Stars And Stripes

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Same song different dance. That happened a 2nd time. The 2nd time the guy started across the Rhine and stopped on the bridge and surrendered. He too have received a deer John letter from his wife and went and got drunk. Then he decided, while drunk that he was stuck in Germany because of the Russians. He figured that if he went and started a fight with the Russians that we would win and then he could go home and save his marriage. He went home on a medevac flight strapped down to a litter and sedated. Was eventually given a "section 8" discharge. At the times of both incidents all tanks in Germany had a combat load of ammo on board.

As far as the firing pins in the arms room: I could go to the arms room on any day scheduled for vehicle maintenance and get my tanks firing pin. Part of operations checks and services was a check of the firing circuit and you needed the firing pin to do them. Tank ammo is electrically fired. The firing pin dents the primer only to establish good contact.

For those who don't know a combat loaded M60 tipped the scales at 60 tons and the A3 model was a hefty 63 tons. The M1 is about 70 tons. They do a little bit of damage when they run over a car. That WILL NOT buff right out.

Rick

I seem to remember that while it was stuck they were able to force the hatch open and shot the guy dead

If it happened in Ca.,it'd be blamed on the dozer!
Lets not forget the crew chief in Mildenhall, England who stole a C130 and dumped in in the English Channel.

This time.... she ~didn't~ get to keep the house and cars. LOL

Rod