The Gun Counter

This usually only happens in India or Pakistan, but it can happen in the U.S., too. Ignorance or just plain stupid can both get you hurt/killed.

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It burns, burns, burns...the Ring of Fire.

Perhaps he was trying a unique way of committing suicide by grabbing a couple of the conductors - but he was probably wearing sneakers/tennis shoes so instead of completely zapping himself, he only turned himself into a shorted fuse, rather than a grounded conductor. YMMV

And nothing of value was lost

I heard stories about guys in Germany who forgot to keep low when loading tanks and other vehicles on the trains over there. Did see one story of a tank that burned on the railcar in Stars and Stripes.

Rod wrote:I heard stories about guys in Germany who forgot to keep low when loading tanks and other vehicles on the trains over there. Did see one story of a tank that burned on the railcar in Stars and Stripes.

A German tank, burning?

Mein Gott in Himmel. Was the crew so foolish as to start its engine?

Jericho941 wrote:

Rod wrote:I heard stories about guys in Germany who forgot to keep low when loading tanks and other vehicles on the trains over there. Did see one story of a tank that burned on the railcar in Stars and Stripes.

A German tank, burning?

Mein Gott in Himmel. Was the crew so foolish as to start its engine?

If I follow him properly, he is talking about American tanks in Germany grounding against the electrical wire for the electric trains which are ubiquitous in Germany. Thus the coverage in S&S, who would give not a rat's rear if it were a German tank.

That's what I thought as well.

Another fun activity each year was counting the number of Soviet tanks destroyed when their crews built a fire under the engine compartment to heat it up enough to start in the morning of a Russian winter.

It happened so often that we assumed it must of worked often enough to be a thing, but it was the times that it didn't go well that made for entertaining intel reports.

Vonz90 wrote:

Jericho941 wrote:

Rod wrote:I heard stories about guys in Germany who forgot to keep low when loading tanks and other vehicles on the trains over there. Did see one story of a tank that burned on the railcar in Stars and Stripes.

A German tank, burning?

Mein Gott in Himmel. Was the crew so foolish as to start its engine?

If I follow him properly, he is talking about American tanks in Germany grounding against the electrical wire for the electric trains which are ubiquitous in Germany. Thus the coverage in S&S, who would give not a rat's rear if it were a German tank.

That, should have been clearer. Most of the time, a trooper got fried or an American tank got burned when they forgot to insure the antenna tie downs were secure and tight.

....aaaand, the subject of the initial post has died.

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Somebody's son, or brother, or friend. Pathetic way to die.