From: Mil-Veh Co. (milveh@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Thu May 12 2005 - 09:36:14 PDT
We had a parade here and the university activists
jeered and throw garbage at the military vehicles in
the parade. Since then we've not had any mil vehs in
the spring parade. Course the locals idiots also
firebombed Wendy's and McDonalds because they were
corporate symbols. Real brainiacs here...
--- Jim Breneman <jimbre_7@yahoo.com> wrote:
> This kind of reminds me of something I heard about
> once. I don't remember the whole story. Im sure some
> of you other guys heard about his story too...
> So this guy was traveling in his DUKW to a show, he
> decided to travel by river (it is a DUKW afterall).
> He
> got his rig all decked out. Bog ol' American
> flag,ring
> mount and a mock .50. Somewhere during his trip the
> police through up a... river-block and detained him.
> I
> don't think he actually got arrested; being that he
> wasn't actually breaking any laws. Apparently
> someone
> had phoned in a "gunboat" moving down the river
> towards the city. I think this was one of those
> situations where people just needed to use their
> heads
> a little bit. The guy with the DUKW probably should
> have known better than to travel with a mock .50
> mounted on it (even though I probably would have
> done
> it too.) The person/people who called it in should
> have realized that a WW2 era boat/truck is probably
> NOT storming the city. The police...well the police
> responded to a perceived threat. Which is what they
> are supposed to do. Although Im sure they probably
> showed their ass when they actually apprehended this
> grave threat. We all know how sometimes...the police
> love to parade their ignorance.
> Anyway...just thought Id share my story.
>
>
> --- Ryan Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > At 6:48 AM -0400 5/12/05, Steve & Jeannie Keith
> > wrote:
> > >
> > >So, to avoid situations like this, keep the guns
> > >in fixed positions and don't leat anyone touch
> > >them
> > >during the parade let alone point them at
> someone!
> >
> > Noone had a problem with Eddie Black's Vietnam
> > Era Gun Truck several years in a row with the 2
> > 50s on the side pointing out over the crowd as it
> > rolled past. It's not waving it around, but the
> > Muzzle of one gun did point at the reviewing
> > stand with the Governor, VIPs and other folks in
> > attendance.
> >
> > I suspect it depends in part on location. But,
> > still, waving the pintle mounted guns at people
> > in particular is probably a bad idea.
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Ryan Gill rmgill@SPAMmindspring.com
> >
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