Supermanning???
Lucky you Blackhawk, I think my stupid cells are cancerous! They just keep multiplying every year.
On a separate note, doesn’t Rear Adm. Denby H. Starling II & Co. realise that when the young men of the military stop being stupid enough to do these sort of stupid things, that they will be too wise to go to war!!
As Blackhawk says, the incident has shown how poor these harnesses are – Is Starling II putting in as much effort into providing decent replacement equipment as he is in making examples of individuals? This guy would have fallen to his death if this had been a genuine accident during normal ops.
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On a separate note, doesn’t Rear Adm. Denby H. Starling II & Co. realise that when the young men of the military stop being stupid enough to do these sort of stupid things, that they will be too wise to go to war!!
As Blackhawk says, the incident has shown how poor these harnesses are – Is Starling II putting in as much effort into providing decent replacement equipment as he is in making examples of individuals? This guy would have fallen to his death if this had been a genuine accident during normal ops.
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I don't see the problem, W_I - as long as they were careful it shouldn't be an issue .
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.... still looking for that damn "tongue-in-cheek" emoticon.
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.... still looking for that damn "tongue-in-cheek" emoticon.
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Talking of ox-roasts in the back of c-130's, has anyone heard of the incident a few years back involving a live bull? Apparently it was nabbed in the Far East and lashed to the deck of a (non-UK) herc, but broke free in flight. So dangerous was the now free and highly disgruntled animal that in the end the only solution was to lower the ramp and let the furious beast make a bid for freedom... falling several thousand feet into the South China Sea!
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http://www.snopes.com/critters/farce/cowtao.htm
You mean this made-up internet story, or another permutation thereof?
"I saw it on the net, so it must be true...."
You mean this made-up internet story, or another permutation thereof?
A very strange true story:
Earlier this year, the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler were plucked of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships, shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes.
They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a now rampaging cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
Earlier this year, the dazed crew of a Japanese trawler were plucked of the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their sunken ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. To a man they claimed that a cow, falling out of a clear blue sky, had struck the trawler amidships, shattering its hull and sinking the vessel within minutes.
They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the edge of a Siberian airfield, forced the cow into the plane's hold and hastily taken off for home. Unprepared for live cargo, the Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a now rampaging cow within its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an altitude of 30,000 feet.
In a similar mould of stupidity is the guy who thought it would be a good idea to hold up an airline flight, rob passengers and crew of all their valuable items and then make his 'cunning' escape. This involved getting the pilot to descend below 10,000ft before jumping out of the aircraft with a parachute... that he had fashioned himself from bed sheets and the like.
Needless to say it didn't work and his body was found in a rather big hole on a swamp!
But at least he got the pilot to descend so he would have been conscious for the last moments of his life!
Needless to say it didn't work and his body was found in a rather big hole on a swamp!
But at least he got the pilot to descend so he would have been conscious for the last moments of his life!
