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Post by hollister on Mar 8, 2008 6:01:03 GMT -7
Hey, tanks a lot!
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian tank crashed through a villager's house after the crew stopped to buy more vodka at a nearby shop.
Footage from a mobile phone camera showed the tank hitting a corner of the house and a laughing, and apparently drunk, driver awkwardly trying to clamber aboard with two bottles of vodka.
"Get him out of the tank," screamed a woman in the village in the Urals.
The army promised Friday to pay compensation and said the tank must have been broken and fallen behind a column heading to a test site for exercises. Earlier it said the vehicle slid on melting ice.
"Of course, there were violations but the crew acted in good faith to catch up with its unit," said Colonel Konstantin Lazutkin, spokesman for Russia's Volga-Urals Military District.
"Thank God, they didn't shoot," the house owner said on the video.
(Reporting by Dmitry Solovyov; Editing by Stephen Weeks)
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Post by uncltim on Mar 8, 2008 7:17:31 GMT -7
Dont drink and drive your artillery!
2 bottles of vodka-$20 30 ton tracked vehicle-$1,000,000 Worldwide fame for your foolishness-priceless
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Post by hollister on Mar 8, 2008 17:24:18 GMT -7
I found the video! (With talking heads) tinyurl.com/yuwvg9added bit of fun - while the tank video is showing the theme from cztery pancherni i pies ($ tankers and a dog) is playing!
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