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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
I see we have the same drivers. Oh I am small, big thing coming I can beat it easily.
They do it to pickups, big trucks, buses and several times trains. Note: I am not talking the small trains that run on their own tracks at about 20 miles an hour. I am talking about trains with 6 or more engines that are more than a mile (1.6 km) long doing about 60 mph (96kmh).
The outcome is not always pretty.
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I heard a story from Germany years back about an incident over there between a car and a tank.
Apparently, some drivers liked to play chicken with NATO tank patrols. The idea was to come up alongside a tank patrol on an autobahn and see how close you could cut in front of the lead tank.
One driver cut it
too close, and a 120 ton British Chieftain main battle tank rolled over his car. The driver was unhurt, though he likely crapped himself, but everything from behind the driver's seat back was a pancake.
On the accident report submitted by the sergeant who was tank commander, in the space for "Damage to other vehicle" he wrote "Tread marks on roof of Volkswagen".
(I have wondered on occasion what the reaction was in HQ when someone
read that report.)
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Dennis