Wikipedia says the hatch was combat locked, but there is really no way that I can see to attack the hatch with bolt cutters. I suspect (and this is entirely speculation) that the true detail missing on Wikipedia may be that one of the hatches was locked from the outside with a padlock, which is a common way of securing other military vehicles when they are in depots. If the lock was cut and the hatch was not locked from the inside, that would be the way police got access.
Tanks have more than one hatch. (IIRC a M60A3 has two on the turret and a driver hatch in the hull). He was mentioned has having cut padlocks on a few tanks, which supports the supposition they were locked in that way.
Once inside, he may have combat locked the hatch he had broken into, but not combat locked the other hatches, which would still have padlocks on the outside.
Again, that’s all speculation but based on the way combat locks work I have trouble picturing police somehow cutting the door itself open.
Yeah, to secure a military vehicle in a lot, they use a regular padlock. Guarantee a key is lost every quarter, and the unit in charge has to go out and cut it to get access to their own vehicle. This guy came in with bolt cutters, and then used the combat lock on the door he entered in. The only possible way a policeman without heavy ordnance got in with boltcutter, and the thief used a combat lock, was if there was another door that was padlocked closed, but not combat locked.
Tldr; yeah, you can still steal a military vehicle if you can sneak into an army base with a pair of boltcutters. It sure as shit won't be loaded, and if you pick the wrong one it might not even start up because they all breakdown regularly, and aren't clearly marked as such.
How does this rank in terms of (in)famous highway chases from police? I’m asking because I’ve seen this scenario in the Simpsons, I think, and other fictional shows and I am wondering how much of a reference to OJ these are
It has to be close to number 1. I’m Australian and was only 9 at the time, and remember watching it on tv back in the day. The only other ones that have really stood out like that to me are the ones that end with the driver committing suicide on live tv…
Definitely #1, although I do think about the guy that was joy riding a tank, think it was in San Diego. It was on one of those “wildest police chase” TV shows and they kept playing the same clips over and over, the tank running over cars and stuff like that. Also not sure if it really counts as a police chase, but there is the kill dozer.
Unless Trump tries to run for it in his limo, I think it’s pretty safe to assume the OJ chase in the Blanco Bronco will remain the most famous of all time.
Great points! Also, “if the glove don’t fit, you must acquit”. That kind of reducing an issue to a single point and putting a catchy spin on it seems rampant in political messaging and advertising these days
I believe that’s factually incorrect. “Yellow journalism” became a known term circa the mid-1890s (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Etymology…). Meanwhile “journalism” has essentially meant what term means today from an earlier time and has a different etymology:
journalism (n.) “business of writing, editing, or publishing a newspaper or public journal,” 1821, regarded at first as a French word in English, from French journalisme (1781), from journal “daily publication” (see journal); compare journalist. (www.etymonline.com/word/journalism).
FWIW, I cant recall a single other person’s name from a car chase, but I have this entire day on recall. What I was doing, the incident etc. I’ve only got that with one other day. 9/11.
OJ was a huge household name, LAPD was beating prime left and right, racial tension was at an all time high type explosion. And Internet wasn’t a thing but 24 hours news was, that brown bronco was on repeat for months, y maybe a year until that trial was over.
M3 Grant/Lee, the tank that came before the M4 Sherman. They couldn't engineer a solution for the heavy main gun to get on the turret and they needed a tank for North Africa as quick as possible, so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman.
so they just slapped it on the hull and called it a day as they moved on to the M4 Sherman
yep, but you can also easily tell from that photo that the M3 hull formed the basis for the M4 hull. Basically they wanted to build it like the M4 the whole time but couldn’t, so the M3 was made on that platform as a stop gap solution
I remember my parents glued to the TV at the time and I, at 16, said, “who gives a shit? It’s just a football player.” And then there was the trial and my parents watched it every day and laughed at the Dancing Judge Itos on Leno and I said, “who gives a shit? It’s just a football player.” I mean yes, it’s a miscarriage of justice that he got let off when he was so obviously guilty, but that’s what happens when you can afford really expensive lawyers.
I have never understood why people are so obsessed with it. The only time I ever even think of it is when someone claims that “X is innocent because the court found him innocent” and I ask the person if that means OJ is innocent.
The OJ Simpson murder case carried serious implications for a number of major issues: race relations, police treatment of African-Americans, domestic violence, and the effects of money on the justice system.
I’d like to read the whole thing, because I would say the first two were more brought into the American consciousness by the L.A. riots. The other two- I can see domestic violence and I already mentioned the effects of money on the justice system.
In fact, I would say the fact that he was able to buy his way out of it says very little about the plight of the average black person in the justice system.
I lived in a mostly black neighborhood during this time, this was being looked at as Rodney king 2.0 and if he was guilty there were going to be riots, kinda hard to conceptionilize what it was like during that time period.
George Bush Sr - "No new taxes, 1000 points of light, and potatoe"
Bob Dole - holding a pencil weird
Ross Perot - big ears and too many charts
Al Gore - "Lockbox"
John Kerry - Flip-flopper
John McCain - “Maverick” and "dontchaknow Palin"
Mitt Romney - Mormon
Hillary Clinton - “Pokémon Go To the Polls” (plus Russian led disinformation campaign to paint her as an unlikable bitch)
Then there’s: Trump - sleeps with prostitutes, promotes “grabbing women by the pussy”, openly racist, praises world dictators, makes fun of handicapped people - wins election.
Now I’m Australian so what I saw might not have been the full picture but it felt like Hillary ran a lazy campaign at least from the international coverage.
I dont remember a single specific thing about it, no policies, platforms or sound bytes. It wasnt memorable. What I do remember was mostly commentary about how she was clearly better than Trump. It felt like she expected to win on name recognition and because he was so clearly wrong for the job.
Just my thoughts, I have no doubt there was medding but I also dont think she played a strong game either.
That was her problem, she basically figured it was her “turn” after Obama and then all she had to beat was that moron Trump. Technically she did have more votes it our stupid electoral college system let him win more electoral votes. She did absolutely suck and there needs to be better options in this country.
Yea her campaign was “I’m not trump, and I did decent under Obama” unfortunately those two statements were a major problem for what appears to be nearly half the voting population
Ross Perot was never going to win. Especially after dropping out then rejoining. He said dirty tricks party threatened to out his daughter which came off weak instead of just saying “Republicans”
Al Gore - Bragger
It was Al Gore is a bragger for saying he invented the Internet. Which he didn’t say, and Vint Cerf repeatedly defended Al Gore as the only politician who saw the potential of the Internet and worked to make it happen.
The general public tends to make snap impressions. Even if this was how a CVC looked on a real tanker, people weren’t looking at them side by side. The photo op was a very transparent attempt to “look tough” by someone who simply didn’t, and probably shouldn’t have tried to do so.
That aside, his liner at least does seem about a size too large. The liner is massive and because of that, the CVC shell’s lip is about even with the top of his head. As opposed to a properly fitting CVC, the lip of the shell just about touching the top of the eyebrows:
Between this and cheating on your wife with a porn star paid off with campaign funds not derailing a campaign. Boggles the mind how the bar fell so far.
Was the payout actually from campaign funds? I thought the problem was that it wasnt and that the money needed to be reported as a campaign contribution because keeping it quiet was obviously for the benefit of the campaign.
My understanding is that Michael Cohen paid out of his own pocket and was reimbursed by the campaign effectively (as you noted) being an unreported contribution. But that aside, we used to hold candidates to a standard - Dukkakis’s photo op, Hart’s boat trip, Dean’s silly yell - that was the end of their run. Trump literally cheats on his wife, talks about fondling women, is…himself over and over and quite literally takes the unprecedented step of refusing to gracefully cede power and…he still thrives. It’s beyond parody.
Although not from the UK, I grew up listening to my grandfather and my older relatives retelling the years of rationing during the great war.
First things first, it wasn’t equal, as who had money would find ways to get more food to their houses. My grandmother often mentioned the pantry in the houses she served at were always stocked, regardless of rationing.
The average citizen would get their ration of goods but although you could live on it, you would be somewhat uncomfortable if you didn’t had any way to suplement your diet. Rasing pidgeons in the city became common fare, more than what already was, and many people started raising rabbits, that can sustained on hay, to eat and sell.
Gardens in every space available became common, to put more vegetables and potatoes on the plate.
It was in the country where people felt the rationing less, being accostumed with surviving from what they farmed, raised and collected. And these were people used to hard work, hand labour. The basis for their day to day living was made up of large quantities of vegetables, dry salted fish (cod), salted and/or cured meats from the yearly pig families would raise, eggs and olive oil and bread. Fresh meat was an event often reserved for special occasions.
Let’s learn and teach how to eat. No need to ration; we already produce more than what is really necessary.
Half of the people in the USA doesn’t believe your statement. Among those that agree with your statement, most wouldn’t be willing to take that drastic of steps to combat it.
Rationing would destroy the farming world financially. Supply stays the same, but demand is reduced by government mandates.
The cost of meat and dairy would drop which would bankrupt many farms. They can’t just switch crops, most beef is raised in ranches where there isn’t enough water to grow consumer crops. Then there’s the issue that about 35% of US corn production is fed to livestock. Limiting meat would also cause the price of corn to drop. Causing further chaos in the farming world.
There is no point in individual rationing until the 7-10 largest impact corporations are brought to heel first. If they are going to guarantee that we are all fucked, then I’m going to enjoy myself while I can.
Can you shut the fuck up? My god, those poor CEOs need all that extra money, otherwise they would be embarrassed when their rich buddies learn they can’t afford a seventh mega yacht.
…and thus became fodder for Imperial Japan what-if wankery everywhere.
The nose and cockpit section of the fuselage is on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Virginia. “Other parts” are preserved in storage, although it is unclear if they mean the remaining fuselage, engine, and wings, or if those were destroyed following examination.
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