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- zspade, on 10/12/2007, -3/+151Better gas mileage.
- rindin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+139Salesman - "Did I mention the Tank's a Tank?"
Peter G. - "Sold." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+96I love how in the article he's quoted as saying: "I've never taken it to the supermarket or anything but Tracy and I will go out for a nice drive on a Sunday."
Yet the Daily Mail ignores that and writes the title in a blatant attempt to make the title more attractive. I hate the media. - nlatimer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+54Everyone knows you can only get it to go really fast if you drive it in reverse and fire the cannon continuously.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51Do you posters even read the article?
Digg title: Man buys 7.5 ton army tank for supermarket runs
From TFA: "I've never taken it to the supermarket or anything but Tracy and I will go out for a nice drive on a Sunday. I don't need to polish it, just give it a quick wipe when it's muddy - it's low maintenance."
Makes me think there's just some bot parsing through websites looking for keywords. - leoedin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+43umm...RTFA - it has rubber tracks so it doesn't destroy the streets!
anyway, the weight distribution will be pretty good, because of so much surface area. Definately less than that of a small fully-loaded truck. - rkenward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+36I would love to drive a tank to work and take up 4 parking spaces. If anyone had anything to say to me about it I'd be like hey - are you sure you want to complain to the man who drove a tank to work? You should see what I use to cut my steaks with!
- marmaduke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Um, no Family Guy, Peter buys a tank for Meg for her first vehicle, and then doesn't let her use it. Then Stewie and Brian use it to kill a walmart clone.
- lbytesxk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33Hopefully never will. the thought of soccer moms trading in their minivans, zipping around in Abrams' gives me the chills.
- felchdonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+26My favorite quote is from his wife, who has obviously had to learn to live with a lot. You can almost hear the sigh in her voice:
"It's his hobby and at least I know where he is." - kent1146, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27@jasper976
There would be no more road rage. At a 4-way stop sign, the TANK always has the right of way!! - pathy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27Lack of owning a tank.
- rkenward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22@ Kale- The British Army.
- justinjacobs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20At least he's protected from short range missle attacks. An average family sedan can't do that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18The ultimate pizza delivery vehicle. "When we say delivery in 30 minutes no matter what, we MEAN delivery in 30 minutes no matter what."
- rkenward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19@jstohler - turrets don't come standard on a hummer.
I want to be that man. - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20THE TITLE DOES NOT SAY IT ALL!
- chewitt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15It's the Daily Mail's fault for coming up with such a completely wrong headline in the first place. They're not getting their money's worth out of the employee that came up with that...
- UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15How much do you think a Peterbilt weighs?
I'd say probably about 10 tons. - jasper976, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16that is a scary picture. man, road rage is gonna take on a whole new meaning
- HoboMaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14That's about $25,000 USD. I would totally drop that much on a tank in a heartbeat! I would've expected $40k+ just for the priviledge of owning a tank, old or no.
- shuffle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Who cares? He drives a motherf**k'in tank!
- migs87, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15can you imagine accidently rear ending this guy and having the turret spin around! that or trying to date his daughter! Guy shows up and he waxing his tank on the front lawn!
- betterth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+131) How do you feel about infantry?
a. Assistance in the field.
b. A nuisance, move out of my way and let the big gun work.
c. Useless, who needs men when you've got tanks.
d. Fun to squish!
etc, etc.... - po43292, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"You should see what I use to cut my steaks with!"
a Woz business card? - betterth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Haha someones jeeealllous....
- Renuvian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Sadly, the digg title is also the title of the actual article on the original website. Makes me think the reporter/editor didn't RTFA.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11"You should see what I use to cut my steaks with!"
And you probably beat the cow to death with your penis first, right? - Vulc4n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10They have a rubber covering, and the pressure (force/area) exerted on the road by the tracks will likely be less than the pressure exerted by your average car.
If you don't get what I'm saying, think of it this way... Sure the weight is about 3 to 4x what a car weighs, but the area that force is exerted over is probably 5 to 10x greater. - Bodacious, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"How much do you think a Peterbilt weighs?
I'd say probably about 10 tons."
Commercial trucks can carry loads around 80,000 pounds or more. That is 40 Short tons - danp, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Why does a guy who likes collecting military history have to be compensating for something?
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12I like how the article title says "army tank for supermarket run" yet if you read the article, they quote the owner, who says:
"I've never taken it to the supermarket or anything but Tracy and I will go out for a nice drive on a Sunday."
*EDIT* Damn you Nougat! Just beat me to it :) By the way, yes that is the digg title, but it's also the article title. - UnderWurlde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Well, the turret's gun is inoperational... so he wouldn't be compensating, would he? Or it would be shooting blanks.
- sugardaddy4242, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It's the maitinance cost that make tanks expensive to own. I only know this because I looked into buying a tank myself.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Are you through?
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The title comes very close to saying it all by giving a very good impression of what the article is like, but misses the mark by including information contrary to what is contained in the article.
That doesn't have the same ring to it, and I'm pretty sure I could not register it as a Digg username. - cvecve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The title is right, it's just missing some punctuation:
Man buys 7.5 ton army tank. For supermarket - runs.
I'm too lazy to dig-out the Lionel Hutz (sp?) reference... - returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I feel sorry for whoever he gets into an accident with.
- fak3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Ah, a classic one, so funny:
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Hutz: All right, gentlemen, I'll take your case. But I'm going to have
to ask for a thousand-dollar retainer.
Bart: A thousand dollars? But your ad says "No money down".
[shows his paper ad: "Works on contingency basis. No money
down."]
Hutz: Oh! They got this all screwed up...
[makes a few corrections: "Works on contingency basis? No, money
down!"]
Bart: So you _don't_ work on a contingency basis?
Hutz: No, money down! Oops, it shouldn't have this Bar Association logo
here either. - VeganG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8"I've always wanted an H2 just because they're rediculously huge"
Jerk. - mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Rubberized. Look at the tracks.
- Ramble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Oh yea, a tank is easily road worthy here.
- op12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That also means it's something like $550+ per gas fillup. How often would you have to shell that out? I'm guessing it'd add up pretty quick.
- leoedin, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I saw a tank drive past me on the motorway once while driving through southern england.
As much as I hate people who drive all those huge hummers/SUVs to buy grocerys - polluting the world and all that...
I WANT ONE!!!! - HMTKSteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@rkenward "I would love to drive a tank to work"
You've obviously never driven a tank... - Ek00stik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I would get a bumper sticker for it that said:
My other car is a....car. - o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I'd like to see the DMV's test for getting a tank driver's license. Imagine what the questions would be like...
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Thank god title says it all was not used in this.
- iFelix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For those thinking about getting their own tank, found this useful website.
http://www.joseph1.demon.co.uk/
The armoured vehicles are here:
http://www.joseph1.demon.co.uk/index-armour.htm
And it looks like they have a few main battle tanks for sale as well as other stuff. - Chigaimasu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Dude, I was wrong. We can totally pick up chicks in a tank.
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