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Anyone see the special last night? Didn't realise they finished his Mini off with a tank :shock:

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Didn't they do that over a decade ago? Did they do it again?


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Yeah I caught it. Its the first time my pair (5 and 2 ) have watched Mr Bean. I let them stay up especially to watch it. They were riveted!

Yes, the demise of the mini comes quite abruptly..

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The special was him up in the attic reminiscing over the things he was finding with flash backs to some of his best scenes

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Yeah I caught it. Its the first time my pair (5 and 2 ) have watched Mr Bean. I let them stay up especially to watch it. They were riveted!

Yes, the demise of the mini comes quite abruptly..


A Vauxhall Viva met a similar fate for real once...an elderly couple stopped to watch the tank manouvers in the UK by stopping in a CLEARLY MARKED no-go laneway and were run over by a tank that had just left the wash...no brakes...the crew did theIr best to try an put only one track dead centre of the car...both occupants survived thankfully :?

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I used to get scared at Holsworthy army barracks in my brewery truck years ago. I could hear the tanks thrashing around in the bush and I was always waiting for one to pop out of the side tracks into me.


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I used to get scared at Holsworthy army barracks in my brewery truck years ago. I could hear the tanks thrashing around in the bush and I was always waiting for one to pop out of the side tracks into me.


That would be ambush training wouldnt it? Or a smash and grab mission?

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I used to get scared at Holsworthy army barracks in my brewery truck years ago. I could hear the tanks thrashing around in the bush and I was always waiting for one to pop out of the side tracks into me.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-p_4cS4FwU


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Morris 1100 wrote:
I used to get scared at Holsworthy army barracks in my brewery truck years ago. I could hear the tanks thrashing around in the bush and I was always waiting for one to pop out of the side tracks into me.


That would be ambush training wouldnt it? Or a smash and grab mission?

As far as I was concerned they could have taken the lot.


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You can see why I was worried! :lol: :lol: :lol:


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from the same site. Another hit & run!

Bloody Yanks :lol:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umhv1_n-MtE&NR=1

And Mercs seem to handle it fairly well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWbhk1Nx ... re=related

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My son was a tank driver in the Armoured Regiment - has the reputation of nearly rolling a tank - slid it sideways down a river bank - had the top track in the air when it hit the bottom - he gunned it forward and it turned at the same time and dropped the raised track and headed into the river - better than upside down in the river :roll:

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From memory I thought the whole episode with the tank had a good ending. They were planing to run over another mini identical to Mr Beans but due to where he parked they got mixed up and his mini got crushed but then he saw the other identical mini, tried his key in it and off he went. Dose anyone else remember it that way?

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Back in 2002 I was working up in the NT not far from the huge Robertson Barracks near Palmerston where 2 Cav and 1 armoured like to park their junk. We guys used to get into the station car when we had a chance and go and see what it was exactly the Army did all day. We would buy an NT iced coffee and watch the blokes run and jump and dig holes while we sat in the air conditioned car and watched as gloating interservice spectators.

One day half a dozen leopards and a M113 rolled past on their way out the scrubland next to the base to do some field exercises close to home. We knew the area a little as it backed onto the Howard river where we used to fish for Barra at the right times of year. So our adventurous curiosity got the better of us and we followed them out into the scrub at a distance to see what tank guys did.

It was cool enough, but we lost track of them in the long build up season spear grass which was taller than the car (a tarago). We stopped for a while and would listen, but the Leopards put out a noise which is really hard to track in the woodland. You can't really tell the direction and distance at all with any accuracy beyond anywhere within a 90 degree arc. .

They all stopped for a fashion, we could hear the engines idling (boik boik boik boik boik boik X 6) and on the other side of us we could hear the sound of the M113 darting off somewhere.

It occurred to us all at once that this was not such a good idea...all the tanks flashed up and started roaring as they obviously took off , and they were headed for us as the noise got loud, really loud. We clicked straight away (wtf were we doing! 45 tons X 6 plus no visuals = danger X lots), ditched the iced coffees and climbed back in the car. We throttled the bastard and flogged it down this road. Nothing could be seen either side of the road because of the long spear grass which was taller than us. Even with the windows up and the AC flat out (escaping in relative comfort) all we could hear was the roar of these bastard tanks and it was LOUD. It was like this for a kilometer or so as we screamed like girlies and trashed the car. We bounced down a lot of rough tracks and power slid out onto the road. We flogged it back to work and hid under our desks for a while..

True buzz :)

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Mick wrote:
Back in 2002 I was working up in the NT not far from the huge Robertson Barracks near Palmerston where 2 Cav and 1 armoured like to park their junk. We guys used to get into the station car when we had a chance and go and see what it was exactly the Army did all day. We would buy an NT iced coffee and watch the blokes run and jump and dig holes while we sat in the air conditioned car and watched as gloating interservice spectators.

One day half a dozen leopards and a M113 rolled past on their way out the scrubland next to the base to do some field exercises close to home. We knew the area a little as it backed onto the Howard river where we used to fish for Barra at the right times of year. So our adventurous curiosity got the better of us and we followed them out into the scrub at a distance to see what tank guys did.

It was cool enough, but we lost track of them in the long build up season spear grass which was taller than the car (a tarago). We stopped for a while and would listen, but the Leopards put out a noise which is really hard to track in the woodland. You can't really tell the direction and distance at all with any accuracy beyond anywhere within a 90 degree arc. .

They all stopped for a fashion, we could hear the engines idling (boik boik boik boik boik boik X 6) and on the other side of us we could hear the sound of the M113 darting off somewhere.

It occurred to us all at once that this was not such a good idea...all the tanks flashed up and started roaring as they obviously took off , and they were headed for us as the noise got loud, really loud. We clicked straight away (wtf were we doing! 45 tons X 6 plus no visuals = danger X lots), ditched the iced coffees and climbed back in the car. We throttled the bastard and flogged it down this road. Nothing could be seen either side of the road because of the long spear grass which was taller than us. Even with the windows up and the AC flat out (escaping in relative comfort) all we could hear was the roar of these bastard tanks and it was LOUD. It was like this for a kilometer or so as we screamed like girlies and trashed the car. We bounced down a lot of rough tracks and power slid out onto the road. We flogged it back to work and hid under our desks for a while..

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Great stuff Mick. :lol: :lol: :lol:

I think it used to be 2 Cav at Holsworthy in the 80s. There is a road that leads out through the bush from the main base out to the airstrip and I used to go there to deliver to the 161 Recce squadron.
You could hear the tanks in the bush but you couldn't tell the direction then all of a sudden one would dart across the road and back into the bush...


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