"He picked the wrong house to break into,” she said.
Murphy says it was dark, so she was able to hide as the suspect walked through her house. She acted quickly and grabbed the closest thing she could find.
“I picked up the table, and I went to work on him,” she said. ‘The table broke.”
“And when he’s down,” she continued, “I’m jumping on him.”
She says, once the suspect was injured, she ran and grabbed a bottle of shampoo – and started pouring it on him.
“I grabbed the shampoo,” she said. “Guess what? He’s still on the ground. In his face, all of it, the whole thing.”
“I got the broom,” she continued. “He’s pulling the broom. I’m hitting him with the broom.”
OK, I don't really know about the shampoo thing but, still, good on you Willie.
I blame the roids.
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Shampoo is very slippery. She probably put it on him to make it difficult for him to stand up or gain leverage to fight back.
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Today in disproportionate reaction, Minnesota's Largest Candy Store responds to robbery with oversized security upgrade:
The big yellow candy barn just off Highway 169 found itself a target for a robber who’s been cutting his way through Scott County. When this unknown thief stole money from their registers, Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store boldly upped the ante.
Now, where once there'd been a pumpkin patch, visitors will find a tank perched atop a big ol’ pile of dirt, where it presides over the sweet expanse of childlike whimsy.
It all makes for a jarring picture. Or, to borrow the words of one commenter on the store’s Facebook page, “Well that escalated quickly.”
Regardless of whether this was done merely as a publicity stunt, or the owners actually intend on using a tank as a deterrent, the very fact you can rent a tank in the US is seriously fucked up.
Other than the fact that it’s a tank, all the shooty bits that really matter are gone. Best you can do is use it to run over stuff, which can be done easier with standard construction equipment.
It is an armored all-terrain vehicle. You can absolutely do serious damage with it, and there's not much conventional* law enforcement can do to stop such a thing.
Besides, this is military grade hardware, which Civilians should not have access to.
* Sane world conventional law enforcement, so maybe not American conventional.
No, this is industrial hardware. All military capability has been stripped, reducing it what amounts to a crappy industrial vehicle that nobody knows how to service and getting spare parts for would be expensive and difficult and sucks fuel like crazy.
It's no more dangerous than a front-end loader with some steel plate welded on the cab, but I guess it's also insane that anyone would have access to industrial vehicles and welding equipment. I could go out today and rent both of those things, probably for a lot cheaper than getting a tank.
This is very much a kneejerk reaction to something that's scary-looking but is actually no different than a wide array of equipment available in the civilian world.
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In defense of front end loaders, those things are pretty fucking dangerous
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Today in disproportionate reaction, Minnesota's Largest Candy Store responds to robbery with oversized security upgrade:
The big yellow candy barn just off Highway 169 found itself a target for a robber who’s been cutting his way through Scott County. When this unknown thief stole money from their registers, Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store boldly upped the ante.
Now, where once there'd been a pumpkin patch, visitors will find a tank perched atop a big ol’ pile of dirt, where it presides over the sweet expanse of childlike whimsy.
It all makes for a jarring picture. Or, to borrow the words of one commenter on the store’s Facebook page, “Well that escalated quickly.”
Regardless of whether this was done merely as a publicity stunt, or the owners actually intend on using a tank as a deterrent, the very fact you can rent a tank in the US is seriously fucked up.
Other than the fact that it’s a tank, all the shooty bits that really matter are gone. Best you can do is use it to run over stuff, which can be done easier with standard construction equipment.
It is an armored all-terrain vehicle. You can absolutely do serious damage with it, and there's not much conventional* law enforcement can do to stop such a thing.
Besides, this is military grade hardware, which Civilians should not have access to.
* Sane world conventional law enforcement, so maybe not American conventional.
No, this is industrial hardware. All military capability has been stripped, reducing it what amounts to a crappy industrial vehicle that nobody knows how to service and getting spare parts for would be expensive and difficult and sucks fuel like crazy.
It's no more dangerous than a front-end loader with some steel plate welded on the cab, but I guess it's also insane that anyone would have access to industrial vehicles and welding equipment. I could go out today and rent both of those things, probably for a lot cheaper than getting a tank.
This is very much a kneejerk reaction to something that's scary-looking but is actually no different than a wide array of equipment available in the civilian world.
No, it's literally what's happened with tank rampages before. They drive around till they get caught on something.
Today in disproportionate reaction, Minnesota's Largest Candy Store responds to robbery with oversized security upgrade:
The big yellow candy barn just off Highway 169 found itself a target for a robber who’s been cutting his way through Scott County. When this unknown thief stole money from their registers, Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store boldly upped the ante.
Now, where once there'd been a pumpkin patch, visitors will find a tank perched atop a big ol’ pile of dirt, where it presides over the sweet expanse of childlike whimsy.
It all makes for a jarring picture. Or, to borrow the words of one commenter on the store’s Facebook page, “Well that escalated quickly.”
Regardless of whether this was done merely as a publicity stunt, or the owners actually intend on using a tank as a deterrent, the very fact you can rent a tank in the US is seriously fucked up.
Other than the fact that it’s a tank, all the shooty bits that really matter are gone. Best you can do is use it to run over stuff, which can be done easier with standard construction equipment.
It is an armored all-terrain vehicle. You can absolutely do serious damage with it, and there's not much conventional* law enforcement can do to stop such a thing.
Besides, this is military grade hardware, which Civilians should not have access to.
* Sane world conventional law enforcement, so maybe not American conventional.
No, this is industrial hardware. All military capability has been stripped, reducing it what amounts to a crappy industrial vehicle that nobody knows how to service and getting spare parts for would be expensive and difficult and sucks fuel like crazy.
It's no more dangerous than a front-end loader with some steel plate welded on the cab, but I guess it's also insane that anyone would have access to industrial vehicles and welding equipment. I could go out today and rent both of those things, probably for a lot cheaper than getting a tank.
This is very much a kneejerk reaction to something that's scary-looking but is actually no different than a wide array of equipment available in the civilian world.
No, it's literally what's happened with tank rampages before. They drive around till they get caught on something.
Even ones that aren't demilitarized, it's not impossible to just drive one off a base but getting it loaded with live ordinance first is going to set off a lot of alarms.
Its still a vehicle that can drive through or over any vehicle or building in the civilian world and which protects it's driver and mechanical parts in a shell that requires special weaponry to pierce.
Once somebody decides they're going to drive one through downtown it's a matter of evacuation and the wait until they run out of gas, get high centered and stuck, or get bored and come out on their own.
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Today in disproportionate reaction, Minnesota's Largest Candy Store responds to robbery with oversized security upgrade:
The big yellow candy barn just off Highway 169 found itself a target for a robber who’s been cutting his way through Scott County. When this unknown thief stole money from their registers, Minnesota’s Largest Candy Store boldly upped the ante.
Now, where once there'd been a pumpkin patch, visitors will find a tank perched atop a big ol’ pile of dirt, where it presides over the sweet expanse of childlike whimsy.
It all makes for a jarring picture. Or, to borrow the words of one commenter on the store’s Facebook page, “Well that escalated quickly.”
Regardless of whether this was done merely as a publicity stunt, or the owners actually intend on using a tank as a deterrent, the very fact you can rent a tank in the US is seriously fucked up.
Other than the fact that it’s a tank, all the shooty bits that really matter are gone. Best you can do is use it to run over stuff, which can be done easier with standard construction equipment.
It is an armored all-terrain vehicle. You can absolutely do serious damage with it, and there's not much conventional* law enforcement can do to stop such a thing.
Besides, this is military grade hardware, which Civilians should not have access to.
* Sane world conventional law enforcement, so maybe not American conventional.
No, this is industrial hardware. All military capability has been stripped, reducing it what amounts to a crappy industrial vehicle that nobody knows how to service and getting spare parts for would be expensive and difficult and sucks fuel like crazy.
It's no more dangerous than a front-end loader with some steel plate welded on the cab, but I guess it's also insane that anyone would have access to industrial vehicles and welding equipment. I could go out today and rent both of those things, probably for a lot cheaper than getting a tank.
This is very much a kneejerk reaction to something that's scary-looking but is actually no different than a wide array of equipment available in the civilian world.
No, it's literally what's happened with tank rampages before. They drive around till they get caught on something.
Right, and the same thing has been done with front-end loaders and whatnot. Said rampages also end up with nothing more than property damage because you can't see or steer for shit, and are really rare because you need to have somebody who can actually drive said vehicles and has the intent to go smash things up with them.
There's a whole fat pile of stuff to be aghast about with US laws, but being able to rent a defunct tank is a non-issue unless you want to also ban access to a huge selection of industrial equipment as well.
Aren't tanks heavy enough to destroy roads if they drive over them?
That seems like it would be a concern.
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Yes, and this SPG, or self-propelled gun, is not a tank but an artillery vehicle. Functionally, I suppose its the same, big gun, tracks, but not meant to fight other tanks.
Also, construction equipment doesn't have the maneuverability or speed of combat vehicles. AFAIK
Yes, and this SPG, or self-propelled gun, is not a tank but an artillery vehicle. Functionally, I suppose its the same, big gun, tracks, but not.meant to foght other tanks.
Also, construction equipment doesn't have the maneuverability or speed of combat vehicles. AFAIK
Depend on the construction equipment in question! A dozer isn’t fast but can turn pretty well. Big end loaders are usually fast and maneuverable.
Tell you what if your eggs are totally scrambled and you feel the need to destroy civic infrastructure and you have tank money you can spend that money much more efficiently than on a tank
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Aren't tanks heavy enough to destroy roads if they drive over them?
That seems like it would be a concern.
Roads built up to code and up to a certain limit, no. There are bridges and roads that couldn't take the weight, but they're marked before you get on them. However, I think a tank can pretty much shred whatever road surface it's on if the operator chooses to sit there and grind it up. They have to just kinda sit in place doing it though.
Half the point of tanks being on treads is to distribute the weight so you can actually drive them around. If you took a 60-ton vehicle and put wheels on it, you'd need ridiculously huge wheels to go on dirt because otherwise the vehicle would instantly dig into the ground. Though it would be pretty damn hilarious if all tanks drove around on the insanely oversized tires that have to go on things like the mega-trucks at mining sites.
Tell you what if your eggs are totally scrambled and you feel the need to destroy civic infrastructure and you have tank money you can spend that money much more efficiently than on a tank
You may have disproved your own point there.
Thinking about it, it might fun to drive/ride in a tank in a controlled setting. Schwarzenegger seems to enjoy himself.
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Aren't tanks heavy enough to destroy roads if they drive over them?
That seems like it would be a concern.
Roads built up to code and up to a certain limit, no. There are bridges and roads that couldn't take the weight, but they're marked before you get on them. However, I think a tank can pretty much shred whatever road surface it's on if the operator chooses to sit there and grind it up. They have to just kinda sit in place doing it though.
Half the point of tanks being on treads is to distribute the weight so you can actually drive them around. If you took a 60-ton vehicle and put wheels on it, you'd need ridiculously huge wheels to go on dirt because otherwise the vehicle would instantly dig into the ground. Though it would be pretty damn hilarious if all tanks drove around on the insanely oversized tires that have to go on things like the mega-trucks at mining sites.
Wasn't one of the (there were absolutely others) arguments against Trump's military parade down the mall that the tanks would destroy the roads?
Entire industries have been built on the notion of "Do this crazy dangerous thing you'd never otherwise get to do, but in a safe and controlled environment".
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Aren't tanks heavy enough to destroy roads if they drive over them?
That seems like it would be a concern.
Roads built up to code and up to a certain limit, no. There are bridges and roads that couldn't take the weight, but they're marked before you get on them. However, I think a tank can pretty much shred whatever road surface it's on if the operator chooses to sit there and grind it up. They have to just kinda sit in place doing it though.
Half the point of tanks being on treads is to distribute the weight so you can actually drive them around. If you took a 60-ton vehicle and put wheels on it, you'd need ridiculously huge wheels to go on dirt because otherwise the vehicle would instantly dig into the ground. Though it would be pretty damn hilarious if all tanks drove around on the insanely oversized tires that have to go on things like the mega-trucks at mining sites.
Wasn't one of the (there were absolutely others) arguments against Trump's military parade down the mall that the tanks would destroy the roads?
No idea, but you can dress up tank treads so they won't destroy road surfaces (at least not easily). I would bet that that is more a matter of poor road upkeep or design, but there are limits on what any road surface can handle; roll enough heavy shit across anything and you'll destroy it eventually. I would guess that the answer is more of a "yes, the parade could potentially damage the road if the vehicles are over a given size or spaced too closely or have the wrong tires/treads on" rather than a straight "yes, that road will get obliterated for sure".
Keep in mind that a huge part of the reason roads exist in most nations is to potentially facilitate rapid transportation of military forces, if necessary. This has been a major function of roads at least since the Romans made this a major part of empire building. Wouldn't do much good to build an international road network that can support your military if said roads explode into debris if a tank rolls over them.
Aren't tanks heavy enough to destroy roads if they drive over them?
That seems like it would be a concern.
Roads built up to code and up to a certain limit, no. There are bridges and roads that couldn't take the weight, but they're marked before you get on them. However, I think a tank can pretty much shred whatever road surface it's on if the operator chooses to sit there and grind it up. They have to just kinda sit in place doing it though.
Half the point of tanks being on treads is to distribute the weight so you can actually drive them around. If you took a 60-ton vehicle and put wheels on it, you'd need ridiculously huge wheels to go on dirt because otherwise the vehicle would instantly dig into the ground. Though it would be pretty damn hilarious if all tanks drove around on the insanely oversized tires that have to go on things like the mega-trucks at mining sites.
Wasn't one of the (there were absolutely others) arguments against Trump's military parade down the mall that the tanks would destroy the roads?
No idea, but you can dress up tank treads so they won't destroy road surfaces (at least not easily). I would bet that that is more a matter of poor road upkeep or design, but there are limits on what any road surface can handle; roll enough heavy shit across anything and you'll destroy it eventually. I would guess that the answer is more of a "yes, the parade could potentially damage the road if the vehicles are over a given size or spaced too closely or have the wrong tires/treads on" rather than a straight "yes, that road will get obliterated for sure".
Keep in mind that a huge part of the reason roads exist in most nations is to potentially facilitate rapid transportation of military forces, if necessary. This has been a major function of roads at least since the Romans made this a major part of empire building. Wouldn't do much good to build an international road network that can support your military if said roads explode into debris if a tank rolls over them.
Roads are not built to facilitate the rapid transportation of military forces and haven't been for a long time. North america is a car culture. We build the vast majority of roads for cars and truck-based shipping.
When a deep red town’s only grocery closed, city hall opened its own store. Just don’t call it ‘socialism.’
But in 2018, two years into his first term, the only grocery store in town shut down. People in Baldwin, Fla., a rural outpost in northeast Florida, were left with few options. They could leave town, driving 10 miles through road construction to nearby Macclenny, or battle 20 miles of freeway traffic through Jacksonville’s suburban sprawl. Alternatively, they could cobble together a meal out of canned goods from the local Dollar General or head to a nearby truck stop for greasy, deep-fried fast food.
Abandoned by mainstream supermarkets whose business models don’t have room for low profit margins, both urban and rural communities nationwide have turned to resident-owned co-ops or nonprofits to fill the gap. But Baldwin is trying something different. At the Baldwin Market, which opened its doors on Sept. 20, all of the employees are on the municipal payroll, from the butcher to the cashiers. Workers from the town’s maintenance department take breaks from cutting grass to help unload deliveries, and residents flag down the mayor when they want to request a specific type of milk.
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There used to be a place here where you got to drive mini tanks that were repurposed to shoot huge paintballs and you just tanked around shooting at each other. Still big enough tanks that you needed two people also. One to drive, one to shoot.
That town-owned grocery store is somehow both enjoyable, and immensely frustrating. Like, it makes me want to smash heads, but I'm not sure if its theirs or mine.
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Probably not terribly more so than the trucks that haul them. Though rubber tires are more efficient than treads. Its to maintain the road
A quick google search shows an Abrams roughly gets .6 mpg, while the trucks and trailers designed to haul them get 1.2mpg. So you cut your fuel use in half to transport by truck.
Aren't tanks heavy enough to destroy roads if they drive over them?
That seems like it would be a concern.
Roads built up to code and up to a certain limit, no. There are bridges and roads that couldn't take the weight, but they're marked before you get on them. However, I think a tank can pretty much shred whatever road surface it's on if the operator chooses to sit there and grind it up. They have to just kinda sit in place doing it though.
Half the point of tanks being on treads is to distribute the weight so you can actually drive them around. If you took a 60-ton vehicle and put wheels on it, you'd need ridiculously huge wheels to go on dirt because otherwise the vehicle would instantly dig into the ground. Though it would be pretty damn hilarious if all tanks drove around on the insanely oversized tires that have to go on things like the mega-trucks at mining sites.
Wasn't one of the (there were absolutely others) arguments against Trump's military parade down the mall that the tanks would destroy the roads?
A 70-ton tank doesn't have that much more ground pressure, so straight road driving is not a problem on most roads if it's driving slowly and doesn't make very sharp turns (as long as it has rubber plates).
However, if it does make a hard break or a tight turn it can definitely tear up a road. The damage tends to be quite limited though and easily fixed by spot-patching.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
edited November 2019
All I know is that when I was in the Army, we routinely drove on dirt roads as much as possible to make sure we didn't tear up roadways. And I was in 32 ton Bradleys. I imagine the 70 ton Abrams had to be even more careful.
Yes, you can drive a tank on a road, repeatedly even, but it will weaken the road, and after driving a few companies down a road, there will be chunks the size of large potholes missing that necessitate repairs.
We were cautioned about it in Korea, and here at Benning in Georgia.
Having a parade down a road would probably have enough vehicles in it that the city of Washington, DC would need to spend a lot of money to fix those roads.
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It's no different than any other road usage, just magnified for the weight of the vehicle and the fact that military treads are usually metal (which obviously can tear up a road surface more easily than rubber). A lot of the reason US road infrastructure is so shitty is because the government just gave up on efficient material transportation via train and now lets it all be transported via trucks, which absolutely beat the shit out of the roads because you've got trailer loads that are 2-3 dozen tons going at 60-70 miles an hour. Even with a bunch of rubber tires to distribute the weight, it beats the shit out of roads and shortens their life considerably.
the fact that military treads are usually metal (which obviously can tear up a road surface more easily than rubber).
Almost all modern tracked vehicles use steel tracks with rubber plates in order to reduce the wear&tear (and improve traction) on road surfaces.
The problem isn't the composition of the tracks, but the peculiarities of tracked vehicles and how they turn.
When a normal vehicle turns there is a minimum of shearing stress applied. When a tracked vehicle turns... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpNQbwWP3hQ
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"The western world sips from a poisonous cocktail: Polarisation, populism, protectionism and post-truth"
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Bad news: Catfish exist. I mean, seriously, have you seen those things? Yikes.
Good news: Hungry for catfish? Just get an egg, some mentos, and coke, and you're good to go.
Honestly this is just werid enough i felt it belonged in this thread. According to the twitter thread, it's working by having the egg act as bait, the tunnel connects to a catfish tunnel, and the resulting chemical reaction from coke + mentos floods said tunnel with C02, causing the catfish to start to suffocate and resultingly, yeet themselves at the surface.
Edit: Further digging indicates that this is probably a hoax! So there you go.
South East Asia youtube has a lotta videos on using household objects and scrap to create traps for fish and snakes and eels. All sorts of aquatic wildlife. Although the specific way the videos are presented feels like produced propaganda.
Probably not terribly more so than the trucks that haul them. Though rubber tires are more efficient than treads. Its to maintain the road
A quick google search shows an Abrams roughly gets .6 mpg, while the trucks and trailers designed to haul them get 1.2mpg. So you cut your fuel use in half to transport by truck.
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No, this is industrial hardware. All military capability has been stripped, reducing it what amounts to a crappy industrial vehicle that nobody knows how to service and getting spare parts for would be expensive and difficult and sucks fuel like crazy.
It's no more dangerous than a front-end loader with some steel plate welded on the cab, but I guess it's also insane that anyone would have access to industrial vehicles and welding equipment. I could go out today and rent both of those things, probably for a lot cheaper than getting a tank.
This is very much a kneejerk reaction to something that's scary-looking but is actually no different than a wide array of equipment available in the civilian world.
Especially when driven/piloted by Ellen Ripley.
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No, it's literally what's happened with tank rampages before. They drive around till they get caught on something.
Even ones that aren't demilitarized, it's not impossible to just drive one off a base but getting it loaded with live ordinance first is going to set off a lot of alarms.
Its still a vehicle that can drive through or over any vehicle or building in the civilian world and which protects it's driver and mechanical parts in a shell that requires special weaponry to pierce.
Once somebody decides they're going to drive one through downtown it's a matter of evacuation and the wait until they run out of gas, get high centered and stuck, or get bored and come out on their own.
Right, and the same thing has been done with front-end loaders and whatnot. Said rampages also end up with nothing more than property damage because you can't see or steer for shit, and are really rare because you need to have somebody who can actually drive said vehicles and has the intent to go smash things up with them.
There's a whole fat pile of stuff to be aghast about with US laws, but being able to rent a defunct tank is a non-issue unless you want to also ban access to a huge selection of industrial equipment as well.
That seems like it would be a concern.
Also, construction equipment doesn't have the maneuverability or speed of combat vehicles. AFAIK
For example
https://tanks-alot.co.uk/tank-limo-hire/
Depend on the construction equipment in question! A dozer isn’t fast but can turn pretty well. Big end loaders are usually fast and maneuverable.
Some of the current haul trucks could carry about 7 fully loaded abrams tanks in their beds and still go 40 MPH (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterpillar_797)
Construction equipment is metal.
Roads built up to code and up to a certain limit, no. There are bridges and roads that couldn't take the weight, but they're marked before you get on them. However, I think a tank can pretty much shred whatever road surface it's on if the operator chooses to sit there and grind it up. They have to just kinda sit in place doing it though.
Half the point of tanks being on treads is to distribute the weight so you can actually drive them around. If you took a 60-ton vehicle and put wheels on it, you'd need ridiculously huge wheels to go on dirt because otherwise the vehicle would instantly dig into the ground. Though it would be pretty damn hilarious if all tanks drove around on the insanely oversized tires that have to go on things like the mega-trucks at mining sites.
You may have disproved your own point there.
Thinking about it, it might fun to drive/ride in a tank in a controlled setting. Schwarzenegger seems to enjoy himself.
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Yup, it's an amusement park that is literally for just getting to use heavy machinery. Oh, it's also ostensibly "for children".
Wasn't one of the (there were absolutely others) arguments against Trump's military parade down the mall that the tanks would destroy the roads?
No idea, but you can dress up tank treads so they won't destroy road surfaces (at least not easily). I would bet that that is more a matter of poor road upkeep or design, but there are limits on what any road surface can handle; roll enough heavy shit across anything and you'll destroy it eventually. I would guess that the answer is more of a "yes, the parade could potentially damage the road if the vehicles are over a given size or spaced too closely or have the wrong tires/treads on" rather than a straight "yes, that road will get obliterated for sure".
Keep in mind that a huge part of the reason roads exist in most nations is to potentially facilitate rapid transportation of military forces, if necessary. This has been a major function of roads at least since the Romans made this a major part of empire building. Wouldn't do much good to build an international road network that can support your military if said roads explode into debris if a tank rolls over them.
Roads are not built to facilitate the rapid transportation of military forces and haven't been for a long time. North america is a car culture. We build the vast majority of roads for cars and truck-based shipping.
If only because tanks are ridiculously fuel inefficient.
Good news: the city now owns and operates a grocery store
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/11/22/baldwin-florida-food-desert-city-owned-grocery-store/
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Was super expensive tho.
A quick google search shows an Abrams roughly gets .6 mpg, while the trucks and trailers designed to haul them get 1.2mpg. So you cut your fuel use in half to transport by truck.
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A 70-ton tank doesn't have that much more ground pressure, so straight road driving is not a problem on most roads if it's driving slowly and doesn't make very sharp turns (as long as it has rubber plates).
However, if it does make a hard break or a tight turn it can definitely tear up a road. The damage tends to be quite limited though and easily fixed by spot-patching.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Yes, you can drive a tank on a road, repeatedly even, but it will weaken the road, and after driving a few companies down a road, there will be chunks the size of large potholes missing that necessitate repairs.
We were cautioned about it in Korea, and here at Benning in Georgia.
Having a parade down a road would probably have enough vehicles in it that the city of Washington, DC would need to spend a lot of money to fix those roads.
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Almost all modern tracked vehicles use steel tracks with rubber plates in order to reduce the wear&tear (and improve traction) on road surfaces.
The problem isn't the composition of the tracks, but the peculiarities of tracked vehicles and how they turn.
When a normal vehicle turns there is a minimum of shearing stress applied. When a tracked vehicle turns...
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Good news: Hungry for catfish? Just get an egg, some mentos, and coke, and you're good to go.
Honestly this is just werid enough i felt it belonged in this thread. According to the twitter thread, it's working by having the egg act as bait, the tunnel connects to a catfish tunnel, and the resulting chemical reaction from coke + mentos floods said tunnel with C02, causing the catfish to start to suffocate and resultingly, yeet themselves at the surface.
Edit: Further digging indicates that this is probably a hoax! So there you go.
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