"How to drive a Hummer in Iraq."

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2007-12-31 05:58am

Stopping means death. Maintain forward progress at all costs.

This video, though initially amusing, becomes more and more meaningful as you absorb it and watch it and realize precisely what that behaviour means for, and to, everyone involved.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2007-12-31 06:05am

They ain't winning any friends with that kind of driving, but that kind of driving won't win them any IEDs either...

Gil Hamilton · Post by **Gil Hamilton** » 2007-12-31 03:47pm

What I find funny is that they rear ended a bus to make it pull over so they could pass.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-12-31 04:25pm

The boys in Afghanistan are doing the same thing, though on the highway their forcing vehicles of it while barrelling through at about 80KpH.

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2007-12-31 05:04pm

I know plenty of people who would bitch about how mean to Iraqis and discriminatory this kind of thing is. Thank God this board is educated enough to understand that that kind of driving is what needs to happen.

On another note, those hummers need sirens, or at least more masculine-sounding horns.

Post by **weemadando** » 2007-12-31 05:33pm

Fleet Admiral JD wrote:I know plenty of people who would bitch about how mean to Iraqis and discriminatory this kind of thing is. Thank God this board is educated enough to understand that that kind of driving is what needs to happen.

On another note, those hummers need sirens, or at least more masculine-sounding horns.

I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-12-31 06:08pm

weemadando wrote:
Fleet Admiral JD wrote:I know plenty of people who would bitch about how mean to Iraqis and discriminatory this kind of thing is. Thank God this board is educated enough to understand that that kind of driving is what needs to happen.

On another note, those hummers need sirens, or at least more masculine-sounding horns.
I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.

What would that sound like?

Post by **weemadando** » 2007-12-31 06:16pm

Phantasee wrote:
weemadando wrote:
Fleet Admiral JD wrote:I know plenty of people who would bitch about how mean to Iraqis and discriminatory this kind of thing is. Thank God this board is educated enough to understand that that kind of driving is what needs to happen.

On another note, those hummers need sirens, or at least more masculine-sounding horns.
I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.
What would that sound like?

Ear-bleedingly good.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-12-31 06:19pm

Phantasee wrote:
What would that sound like?

Ever hear an air-raid siren? Think that loud (or louder) but with the fog-horn sound.

Fleet Admiral JD · Post by **Fleet Admiral JD** » 2007-12-31 06:20pm

weemadando wrote:
Fleet Admiral JD wrote: On another note, those hummers need sirens, or at least more masculine-sounding horns.
I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.

Could you get on that and film it for me? I'd pay to see the people walking down the street trying futilely to block their ears.

Phantasee · Post by **Phantasee** » 2007-12-31 06:24pm

Cpl Kendall wrote:
Phantasee wrote:
What would that sound like?
Ever hear an air-raid siren? Think that loud (or louder) but with the fog-horn sound.

I've had the good fortune to never have heard an actual air-raid siren, so I don't know how loud that would be. When I was at Penhold at Air Cadet Camp, there was a tornado siren (Pine Lake got hit by a tornado, it was nearby). I'm assuming it's at least that loud.

Shit, that's almost loud enough to blow traffic out of the way!

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » 2007-12-31 06:37pm

Phantasee wrote:
I've had the good fortune to never have heard an actual air-raid siren, so I don't know how loud that would be. When I was at Penhold at Air Cadet Camp, there was a tornado siren (Pine Lake got hit by a tornado, it was nearby). I'm assuming it's at least that loud.

Shit, that's almost loud enough to blow traffic out of the way!

I believe the tornado sirens are actually the old air-raid sirens. And Penhold is still being used for Cadet Camps, how long ago was that?

J · Post by J » 2007-12-31 06:39pm

The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Stopping means death. Maintain forward progress at all costs.

This video, though initially amusing, becomes more and more meaningful as you absorb it and watch it and realize precisely what that behaviour means for, and to, everyone involved.

Hmmm...it would appear to be an allegory of the entire fiasco in Iraq, condensed into the form of a drive through the streets over there.

Gullible Jones · Post by **Gullible Jones** » 2007-12-31 07:47pm

What that thing really needs is an awooga horn.

J · Post by J » 2007-12-31 08:19pm

Phantasee wrote:
weemadando wrote:I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.
What would that sound like?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb1HFrBJqkY

Post by **weemadando** » 2008-01-01 01:45am

J wrote:
Phantasee wrote:
weemadando wrote:I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.
What would that sound like?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb1HFrBJqkY

That'll do. Though we'd probably need to remodel an an Abrams turret to mount it safely and have an auxiliary vehicle to provide the gas for it.

Shroom Man 777 · Post by **Shroom Man 777** » 2008-01-01 05:24am

If I had a car, I'd mount floodlights on it and have the horn sound like a Martian Tripod from the WOTW movie. BHOOOOOOT!

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2008-01-01 09:13am

^You beat me to it.

Back to the Hummer video, when was it likely shot? About thirty seconds in there's a statue of a man wearing a beret on the left side of the road..?

The_Saint · Post by **The_Saint** » 2008-01-01 07:13pm

weemadando wrote:I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.

hehehe you're lucky I never had cause to lug our air raid siren round to your place and crank it up under your bedroom window for your morning wake up call..

Hand cranked, we had a go a couple of years back at an Arms and Militaria fair and some friends reported hearing it 2 kilometre's away

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2008-01-07 04:22am

The driver has clearly been doing it for a while, seeing as he bumped the cars almost perfectly. Strong enough to make an impression, yet gentle enough to not even scratch the paint. That's almost certainly the result of lots of practice.

Post by **weemadando** » 2008-01-07 04:37am

The_Saint wrote:
weemadando wrote:I'm sure we can mount a 1930s ocean-going liner horn on one.
hehehe you're lucky I never had cause to lug our air raid siren round to your place and crank it up under your bedroom window for your morning wake up call..

Hand cranked, we had a go a couple of years back at an Arms and Militaria fair and some friends reported hearing it 2 kilometre's away

I've had fun with the air raid sirens before. One of those + old decommissioned bofors = fun

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2008-01-07 08:35pm

weemadando wrote: That'll do. Though we'd probably need to remodel an an Abrams turret to mount it safely and have an auxiliary vehicle to provide the gas for it.

Why do that when we can simply rebuild the Abrams to also run off a steam turbine?

Post by **weemadando** » 2008-01-07 09:01pm

Sea Skimmer wrote:
weemadando wrote: That'll do. Though we'd probably need to remodel an an Abrams turret to mount it safely and have an auxiliary vehicle to provide the gas for it.
Why do that when we can simply rebuild the Abrams to also run off a steam turbine?

I like where this is going.

Maybe we can instead modify one of the Crusader test-beds. The one with the ammo trailer hook-up and fill that with coal.

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2008-01-10 11:23am

Shroom Man 777 wrote:They ain't winning any friends with that kind of driving, but that kind of driving won't win them any IEDs either...

IEDs don't particularly care how fast you're moving. If you're really worried about IEDs you slow way down.

The Duchess of Zeon · Post by **The Duchess of Zeon** » 2008-01-10 06:43pm

Raxmei wrote:
Shroom Man 777 wrote:They ain't winning any friends with that kind of driving, but that kind of driving won't win them any IEDs either...
IEDs don't particularly care how fast you're moving. If you're really worried about IEDs you slow way down.

A lot of them are trigged by a dude with a cellphone hiding nearby, in which case going extremely fast means you get past the thing by the time it goes off. Any other kind of ambush, of course, can be prevented or mitigated by speed.

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