Stryker/C-130 Pics

On 2 Oct 2003 02:28:18 -0700, (lisieux) wrote:

They are a very cute little vehicle. I have seen them disabled in
ambushes without too much difficulty.

Going by the standard of driving displayed by most recce troop drivers
I saw, this wouldn't be too difficult as they loved to pile their
vehicles into random ditches, culverts and hedges with gay abandon.
And that was before they found the reverse gear.

Even children can stop them if
they have lots of paint and a few big bricks.

They also tended to stop at Zebra crossings as a matter of routine.

Another cunning Fenian ploy unmasked. First, paint a zebra crossing
on the road to stop the enemy armour...

Their drivers tended to be more polite than the Saracen and Humber Pig
drivers. The Saladins were the most fun to attack as they simply drove
through the hail of paint bombs and bricks without stopping to chase
the kids away.

My favourite was the Fox, with a centre of gravity so high that it
would overturn on any sharp corner and squish the vehicle commander if
he was perching on the turrent roof to escape the stench of the
driver's socks in the main compartment as per usual. I talked my way
into driving a Scimitar down Colchester high street once. That was
fun. As was parking it at the Little Chef for lunch.

Gavin Bailey

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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised wrote:
On 2 Oct 2003 02:28:18 -0700, (lisieux) wrote:
into driving a Scimitar down Colchester high street once. That was
fun. As was parking it at the Little Chef for lunch.

Wouldn't parking it *on* the Little Chef have been a better culinary decision?

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On 2 Oct 2003 14:54:59 +0100, (ANDREW ROBERT BREEN)
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised wrote:
On 2 Oct 2003 02:28:18 -0700, (lisieux) wrote:
into driving a Scimitar down Colchester high street once. That was
fun. As was parking it at the Little Chef for lunch.

Wouldn't parking it *on* the Little Chef have been a better culinary decision?

After several days on compo, overpriced spicy chicken fillets and
chips was manna from heaven, believe me.

Gavin Bailey
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised wrote:

My favourite was the Fox, with a centre of gravity so high that it
would overturn on any sharp corner and squish the vehicle commander if
he was perching on the turrent roof to escape the stench of the
driver's socks in the main compartment as per usual. I talked my way
into driving a Scimitar down Colchester high street once. That was
fun. As was parking it at the Little Chef for lunch.

Mum always found it strange that tank drivers (no doubt the commanders)
would pull up at the traffic lights and would sit there waiting to do a
right turn with their arm out, stiff as a brush, like a schoolkid doing the
cycling proficiency test.

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On 1 Oct 2003 09:14:25 -0700, Steyr wrote:

. I know Gavin from the grand days we
spent in Kenya together, cheerfully shooting natives to keep the map pink.

When the natives start introducing maxims like "democracy", it's time
to introduce them to the Maxim.


Self government in Africa hasn't worked since the Cathaginians.

I might add that the EU as it was then constituted by the Pax Romana
tended to think that even under the Punic regime of random mercantile
despotism, too much scope remained for littering, double-parking and
the errant use of Mare Nostrum.

It was eventually discovered that Carthage had been built without
planning permission and so regulations being regulations.......



I now hunt wildlfe documentary film makers and sell the
meat on the black-market. The white market kind of got expelled from the
country.

You should have got a job as a meejah consultant showing all the yank
camera crews around the ghetto. We could have staged some on-demand
hardcore warry actions scenes for you, like the company commander
driving his landie into the back of a tractor, ambushing the local IRA
QM on his way to fradulently claim housing benefit from the colonial
occupying power and other such cutting-edge combat situations from the
war zone.


We could try to simply re-occupy a white farm after first softening up
with some close air support and a few hundred cruise missiles.




Well, if Geraldo can do it, I think we can do it with more
credibility, and undercut his price in the process.

Gavin Bailey

I think the "BBC Journalists will be shot" notices and bilboards might
scare Geraldo just a little. He has not dome anything really brave
since he went to Dade County Florida.

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The Ferret armoured car was clearly the greatest golf buggie ever
invented,
however it was a little too under-armed for use in Florida.

I met a Ferret for the first time in 1973 as I stood sentry at the
entrance to a battery position on a cloudy, moonless night on the edge
of
a forest. The little bugger came out of the woods and was able to get
within less than 10 metres before I could hear it (and what I heard was
mostly the "crunch" of gravel under its tires). Possibly the best
sneak-and-peek recce vehicle ever built.


They are a very cute little vehicle. I have seen them disabled in
ambushes without too much difficulty. Even children can stop them if
they have lots of paint and a few big bricks.

They also tended to stop at Zebra crossings as a matter of routine.

Their drivers tended to be more polite than the Saracen and Humber Pig
drivers. The Saladins were the most fun to attack as they simply drove
through the hail of paint bombs and bricks without stopping to chase
the kids away.

Why on earth would a ferret enter into a zebra crossing, surely it would get
trampled. You know those zebras can get pretty big don't you?


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On Thu, 2 Oct 2003 21:00:47 +0100, "James Hart"
wrote:

Mum always found it strange that tank drivers (no doubt the commanders)
would pull up at the traffic lights and would sit there waiting to do a
right turn with their arm out, stiff as a brush, like a schoolkid doing the
cycling proficiency test.

It was revealing to see how few car drivers actually understood the
Highway Code arm gestures, and was funnier to see their faces when
they suddenly realised that their ignorance was going to pile them
into the side of a tank.* Having said that, it had army landie effect
in the traffic stream: drivers suddenly became less aggressive and
left a reasonable amount of space to avoid their precious cars getting
squished and dented. Although, to be fair, a CVRT in stop-start
traffic rocks backards a forwards quite a bit which can confuse people
anticipating the queue moving forwards.

Gavin Bailey

* I use the word in the loosest possible context to include the
Scimitar.
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"lisieux" wrote in message
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
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"Steyr" wrote in message
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The Ferret armoured car was clearly the greatest golf buggie ever
invented,
however it was a little too under-armed for use in Florida.

I met a Ferret for the first time in 1973 as I stood sentry at the
entrance to a battery position on a cloudy, moonless night on the edge
of
a forest. The little bugger came out of the woods and was able to get
within less than 10 metres before I could hear it (and what I heard was
mostly the "crunch" of gravel under its tires). Possibly the best
sneak-and-peek recce vehicle ever built.


They are a very cute little vehicle. I have seen them disabled in
ambushes without too much difficulty. Even children can stop them if
they have lots of paint and a few big bricks.

They also tended to stop at Zebra crossings as a matter of routine.

Their drivers tended to be more polite than the Saracen and Humber Pig
drivers. The Saladins were the most fun to attack as they simply drove
through the hail of paint bombs and bricks without stopping to chase
the kids away.

Why on earth would a ferret enter into a zebra crossing, surely it would get
trampled. You know those zebras can get pretty big don't you?

The odd thing about this is that the Ferrets in question are quite a
bit larger than Dingoes.

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bad measures. -- Daniel Webster

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The odd thing about this is that the Ferrets in question are quite a
bit larger than Dingoes.

Aren't they larger than dingoes but smaller than Dingoes?
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"Andrew Chaplin" wrote:

"Peter Stickney" wrote in message
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The odd thing about this is that the Ferrets in question are quite a
bit larger than Dingoes.

Aren't they larger than dingoes but smaller than Dingoes?

Good one Andrew!...
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