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November 18th, 2011 at 10:38 am
That’s one way to keep the lice/scabies/plague from getting to you
November 18th, 2011 at 10:47 am
It clearly says “Rescue 2” on the side.
That means it can only be used for good.
November 18th, 2011 at 10:50 am
Hardly a tank. Looks like an M577 Command track based on the M113 APC. Wonder how well those rubber tracks hold up though…
November 18th, 2011 at 11:03 am
http://theback40k.blogspot.com/2011/07/500-point-ig-for-patrol-tourney.html
November 18th, 2011 at 11:04 am
Here I was hoping it was Steven Seagal driving through a crowd in an APC for his TV show.
And by “RESCUE 2” they mean: we are going the shit out of you.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:12 am
Uhhh.. REAL tankers used to call those “Dempster Dumpsters”… Very frightening to the uninitiated, impervious to small arms fire (<.50 cal) and compared to the Prius that daddy's bank account bought, infinitely more warlike, but HARDLY a tank.
MC
November 18th, 2011 at 11:13 am
That’s one hell of an ambulance.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:14 am
As much of a tank as an AR-15 is a machinegun.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:16 am
* we are going to rescue the shit out of you.
I despise posting things from my phone.
November 18th, 2011 at 11:50 am
How long will it be until they mount a remote M240 turret and make it a “search and rescue” APC?
November 18th, 2011 at 11:50 am
This word, “occupy.” You keep using it.
And yet, you have no armor or artillery.
The supply lines make Crimea look like a logistics text.
“Occupied” isn’t just the sliding sign on a Port-a-John handle. It’s supposed to mean something.
That said, this is the kind of “tank” that Molotovs were designed for. Better than Macy’s! Reminds me of Phil Ochs.
November 18th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
If you are the police and The War On Drugs has brought you a free armored vehicle to use in serving search warrants on potheads and crank distributors, and you’ve likely been mocked in the local news for using it during arrests of 15 year olds smoking joints while holed up in an abandoned house, of course you’re bringing it to the biggest job your police force has had since the last time the Buccaneers went to the Super Bowl. (Which was when, exactly? Oh yeah – 2003!)
After all, some of those filthy hippies might actually know how to mix laundry detergent and 10% EtOH / gasoline to make sticky Molotovs!
November 18th, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I just love some of the comments you guys come up with.I think the tank thing a little over the top for crowd control.
November 18th, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I guess wanting a Rachel Corrie moment would be wrong…
November 18th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Elsewhere: “Remember when Hillary, (who these days seems to need only a black, conical hat, a boiling kettle, and a wart on her nose,) warned ex-US client Mubarack not to block Twitter in Egypt? It was a key mode of communication for the rebels, US-run and otherwise. As usual, the US rule is: do as we say, not as we do. The regime is starting to curtail Twitter for the Occupy demonstrators, just as it coordinated the militarized police assaults.”
Because people airing their political grievances deserve to be trampled, mocked, and beaten, especially if someone somewhere is mildly inconvenienced and the plantation peace is disturbed. (Now where’s my Lee Greenwood mixtape?)
November 18th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I’m with the other guys, it might look scary, but those road-friendly rubber treads will burn right up with a properly applied molotov cocktail.
November 18th, 2011 at 1:11 pm
Did Cartman drive it up and put in a Slayer CD?
November 18th, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Actually, there’s a long tradition of MilSurp Vehicles going to the Local PoPo. My old Hometown of Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio had a WW2 Half Track given to them in the early ’60s for “Riot Control.” It came to good use during the 1968 Race Riots and some “Disgruntled Citizens from Akron” marched North to express their “Dislike” for CFO’s “Racial Policies”. You should have seen them Beat Feet when they tried to cross over the North Main Street Bridge and saw that thing.
Of Course, the .50 Cal Ma Deuce they also got helped persuade them to move along. For some reason none of the Rioters stuck around when the Charging Handle was pulled back.
November 18th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Tank? It’s a (no so very) modified APC. We have a whole lot of “returnees” who are very well-trained in how to take one out (If need be), and some who have actually done so. After all, I don’t see any .50-cal available for force protection, and picking off outliers isn’t hard.
November 18th, 2011 at 2:57 pm
Hey Bubblehead, I just moved into Cuyahoga Falls this august. You still in the area?
November 18th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I don’t support the OWS kids, but with this action we are one step closer to our own Tiananmen Square…
November 18th, 2011 at 7:02 pm
Uh huh. Time for the Thermite! >:-)
November 19th, 2011 at 12:30 am
That does it. I’m gonna go buy that Ferret from the guy in Ft. Worth and use it for a commuter. At least it’ll run down the road at highway speeds.
November 20th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
Your tax dollars at work. I am pretty sure this was purchases with Homeland Security dollars. (Pinellas County was bent outa shape that they didn’t get 1)
November 21st, 2011 at 8:16 am
Just remember, the union police are more likely to use that on the next Tea Party rally than on the street wing of their Party.
November 22nd, 2011 at 3:25 am
Allow me to be the 17th guy to say “Not a tank.” M577 Command Post Vehicle. Based on the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier, has no weapons mount. The back area is tall to permit mounting a shitpot of radios and other Operations Center stuff.
May NOT be “your DHS dollars at work”, they may well have gotten it for scrap value, if not for free.
And I wouldn’t have wanted to be inside of mine of someone was shooting at it with a .50.