On Fri, 19 May 1995 aran@MIT.EDU wrote:
quoted 7 lines last night i awoke from a nap on the couch to see> last night i awoke from a nap on the couch to see
> what looked like richard james' tank plowing through
> an RV and several cars. from what i saw (no pun intended)
> they shot the driver dead?
> does this mean i'll have to pay 2 times as much for
> a caustic window - joyrex j9i 303/606 picture disc??
> Teep
The guy who did all this destruction was from San Deigo, CALIF, and
used to be in the National Gaurd, hence the tank driving experience. The
man had lost his job as a plumber or carpenter or something, was having
financial troubles, and to top it off, problems with his girlfriend.
After plowing through numerous vehicles including a motor home! he
hit the highway with police in pursuit, and got the blasted thing caught
up on a cement rail gaurd. Police moved in, and when he tried to start
the thing up again, they shot him.
The police were just lucky that the National Gaurd did not have a
M1A1 tank for him to grab, or they would have been up against the best
tank in the world presently.
In the picture in TEEX2, RDJ's tank looks like a smaller British
one, not one of those clunker older tanks which was used yesterday. And
why would RDJ be so crazy to do something like that? He cares now because
we do!
Dean-O-Matic