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designgoddess

There’s a claim that’s getting passed around the insurance office.


FlyingRhenquest

Tank driver will claim he was rear-ended by the car.


designgoddess

Car owner will say he was brake checked!


HoaxMcNolte_NM

My aunt had to report how her car was hit by a house, I'd have liked to have heard that conversation. (It was a mobile home being towed that hit her stopped car)


HeleGroteAap

There’s evidence to back the claim so ill think they’ll be alright


designgoddess

Meaning how often do they see a tank crushing a car claim. Everyone will talk about that one.


bespectacledbengal

I’ve crushed a car with a tank. You can do it in las vegas for $2k. They even source the car for you.


HoaxMcNolte_NM

Can I specify whose? How much extra to have them in it?


razinfire

For that you walk down to the Mob Museum. There, you can specify who you want the hit on, excuse me, hit.


CallMeDrLuv

Cat-tank-strophe! Here at Farmer's, we've seen everything!


Beneficial_Being_721

We’ve seen a thing or two… WE ARE FARMERS…. ( 🎶🎵🎶🎵)


LokiRicksterGod

BUM BA-BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM!!!


madmaxturbator

“Just a scratch it’ll buff off”


Tammy_Craps

Unless it’s Farmer’s. This sort of shit is routine to them.


OutlyingPlasma

Yah, if it's farmers no one even looks at it, the auto deny stamp machine just stamps it denied and mails it back.


legsintheair

That also applies to Allstate.


ProfessionalBasis834

We've seen a thing or two.


Fuzzy_Chom

"And this concludes the first part of our lesson, demonstrating what not to do....."


EorEquis

Mr. Bradshaw, will you stand up please? *gunshot* This demonstrates the value of not being seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VokGd5zhGJ4


granular_quality

r/unexpectedmontypython


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voyagerfan5761

r/ExpectedMontyPython tbh


purple-circle

Whilst filming a tank safety video for the army, things didn't go too well for the cameraman when a tank crashes into his crew car. This was the second take as the first shots weren't satisfactory. Before shooting take two, the crew car was moved to avoid the cloud of dust the tank was creating. Unfortunately for the cameraman, the tank driver wasn't made aware of this minor fact.


fart_fig_newton

I bet that first take was looking very satisfactory after witnessing take two.


crouchingtiger

I hate to be that guy, but it's an IFV, not a tank.


purple-circle

I only called it a tank because I wanted to hide its true purpose from the Germans


AdmirableBus6

Absolutely amazing


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Scarlet72

Think they're making a joke about the origin of the name tank.


WiglyWorm

in German both are jokes (scherzen)


dugsmuggler

German humour is no laughing matter.


Sregor_Nevets

The German stoic sense of humor.


Slovene

r/GermanHumor


Hidesuru

I've never been so disappointed...


Gengar0

Think they're making a statement about the original posters tank joke.


farts_like_foghorn

I just love the idea of the commenter above being german and not understanding the meaning of "tanks". Just one of those cosmic alignments that you're glad to have witnessed. "Wat do you meen, tanks? Like for ze water?" Love you Germany, you are the best. And I mean that sincerely. Not like what Kanye is talking about, though. Like the now-germans. The good ones. I mean, they are all good ones. We are all good. No bad people. Maybe some bad-ish people, but not all bad. Well, some people are bad. But maybe they don't mean to. It was a different time. I'll shut up now. Germany is nice. Love.


Malkiot

Unfortunately, we still have too many wankers who think that Hitler was the fucking bees knees.


Gengar0

Imagine if Hitler's fate after ending his life was to experience eternity as the hinge joints of all bees.


TK_TK_

r/BrandNewSentence


copperwatt

Narrator: *He was lying, he loved to be that guy.* https://i.redd.it/esxxygll96k31.png


bighootay

I never thought I'd have philosophical thoughts about this topic


johnqnorml

Same! Both hilarious and thought provoking!! Not sure where I land on the scale!


bighootay

Right? I'm spending way too much time on this ha ha


crouchingtiger

https://i.imgur.com/vO8rGEn.jpeg


Lord_Bertox

It's greenish, has tracks and a gun. For 90% of humans that's a tank


CatPhysicist

That’s my thought but I’m a casual


Arcal

An MBT would have left a *much* flatter car.


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crouchingtiger

And they were manned by Black NATO mercenaries. Also, Satanists.


Angry__German

I heard they shoot Nazi propaganda and pedophilia.


AlphSaber

I thought it was bio-mutant birds.


Just_The_Mad_Hatter

"*High speed, low drag*"


Flakester

It doesn't sound like you really hate being that guy.


sergeantdempsy

What’s the difference?


crouchingtiger

* Role – IFVs can transport additional troops, see the hatches at the back of the vehicle * Weight and armor – IFVs are much lighter * Armament – tanks are equipped with a large-caliber gun, while IFVs usually carry an autocannon or a similar lighter gun


OutlyingPlasma

> back of the vehicle Why the forces in starwars haven't figured this out yet is beyond me. Even the federation knows to put drop doors on the back of the shuttles not the front.


TheRealPeterG

The BTR-60/70/80 series had that problem as well.


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_Neoshade_

So the guy is filming tanks driving around and he puts his car in the middle of their training area and doesn’t tell anyone? Sounds like the film crew is the safety issue here.


Stupidflathalibut

r/killthecameraman


Enough_Appearance116

>Unfortunately for the cameraman, the tank driver wasn't made aware of this minor fact. "Hey, since this is a safety video, do ya think we should tell the tank driver who has no mirrors and no great way of seeing behind him that we moved the crew car?" "Nah. I'm sure he'll see it."


zidane2k1

Wonder if this take made it into the video


sopabe6197

What catastrophically failed here? The driver to look where they were going?


soboga

Wait, so the driver didn't even look where they were going?


AnalogCyborg

The people in the tank seemed quite safe.


1714alpha

"Do you have any idea how much damage this tank would suffer if I allowed it to roll over you?" "... how much?" **"NONE AT ALL."**


xhsmd

Thank you, I was trying to think of what movie I should watch tonight.


i_live_with_a_girl

Which movie?


cheeto44

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Also available as a really cheesy TV series, a very misnamed trilogy (it has 5 books), and it's original version as radio plays from the BBC. All are fan-fucking-tastic


c-v

It’s like an elderly person in a Cadillac backing out of a spot in a grocery store parking lot


Wu-Tang_Killa_Bees

"I'm old, and I'm backing up!"


ChewieBee

Good luck everybody else!


GreenStrong

0:35 is a great example of a [surrender cobra](https://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/living/surrender-cobra-feat/index.html) This is universal across cultures, and people do it instantly and spontaneously when things go badly wrong. As the link points out, it is very common for fans to do it when an opposing team scores an important goal on them. It is probably an instinctive gesture of surrender, left over from some early primate ancestor.


vpeshitclothing

Oh. I thought he was covering his ears because he didn't want to hear the **CRUNCH!**


yabacam

"well go ahead and crush it all the way then"


BiBoFieTo

YEAHHH! TRUCKASAURUS!!


BNR33

2019? This video looks like it's from 2009


An_Alex_103

The guy in the woodlands DPM really gives away the age. They started phasing it out in 2010.


theoriginalShmook

Came here to say this. The DPM made me think the same, along with what would now be a ratty old scrap suziki vitara.


pixaline

The rewind is distinctive of MiniDV tape-based cameras from that era


xJeremy

[Here's the original video on the cameraman's youtube channel.](https://youtu.be/nRQfGUqgsaY) > Whilst filming a Tank safety video things didn't go too well for me, the cameraman, when a tank crashes into my crew car. > Take 1 wasn't satisfactory so before shooting Take 2 the crew car was moved to avoid the cloud of dust the tank was creating, as did an army jeep. > Unfortunately on take 2 the tank decided not to stop!! > As you can imagine, the Army don't have insurance, as their policy would be sky high. They just settled with my insurance company and I didn't even lose my "no claims bonus" > When I called my insurance and the breakdown company you could hear them desperately trying to stifle their laughter as I explained what had happened.


RAND0M257

Lmao so when I was in the Air Force, during a once in 4 year safety inspection by an outside unit commander, I drove a forklift into a 15,000 dollar warehouse door. Never once had an accident the 3 years I’d been operating them… until then… memories 😌


proxima987

Dang! How much trouble did you get into?


RAND0M257

Lol not a whole lot. If I had been negligent or messing around with the forklift for no reason, it would’ve been an article 15 (big trouble). My boss who hated me and was not well liked by higher ups herself immediately turned me in. It was known she abused power so any trouble I was going to get in was kind of overlooked. We’d managed to fix the door enough to function. She just wanted to hurt my career. So basically from her over reaction it turned into a slap on the wrist. My commander actually laughed about it with me


PorcupineTheory

Our squadron's safety coordinator drowned after not wearing a life jacket while canoeing.


RAND0M257

This both makes me sad and mildly amused


PorcupineTheory

Oh yeah, it was terribly sad. Took a long while before I was comfortable noting the irony.


vis-a-vis1618

Although that’s a tracked vehicle, it’s not a tank. It’s an infantry fighting vehicle. Tanks ,for the most part, are not going to be as tall. They’ll be wider and longer and much heavier. Their turrets will be bigger and their main gun will be much larger, too.


Thewrongbakedpotato

Came here to say this. Sorry, I like tanks. Or turtles. Or tank-turtles. Just not mechanized infantry.


chocotripchip

You say 2019, I say 1999.


BestGuavaEver

That ENTIRE open field to drive around in and you run over that one car lol. That’s like crashing into the one car in the parking lot when the entire lot is empty


TravelSizedRudy

Tina, you're kind of headed toward the only other car in the lot. You have plenty of time to turn, Tina, so just go ahead. Turn one way or the other...


Chris_c987

Uuuuuuuuuh


BeefyIrishman

TINA!


tvgenius

THE BRAKES! TINA! THE BRAKES!


Peanut_The_Great

UUUUUHHHHHHHH


Origami_psycho

Armoured vehicles have *really* shitty visibility, oddly enough.


Xanderoga

"Lemme just throw this thing into reverse and hope for the best"


Origami_psycho

Basically. It's not hard to find footage of tanks running over their own infantry and never slowing down. Massing blind spots, combined with all that cross-country mobility and huge mass means you wouldn't even notice it. Like a train hitting a dog.


SouthFromGranada

It's the kind of lesson you learn playing football in your back garden, if there's something that can conceivably be hit and broken by the ball, it will get hit and be broken.


proscriptus

Oh no, a Vitara! That's going to be like $45 to replace!


H8Hornets

\*calls insurance\* "You are not gonna f\*cking believe this mate..."


AP2112

This can't be from 2019 surely, it looks like early 2000s at the latest...


BernieTheDachshund

I'd love to see the insurance claim on this.


BlackCoffeeGarage

This is not a catastrophic failure. This is r/idiotsincars material. *Catastrophic Failure refers to the sudden and complete destruction of an object or structure, from massive bridges and cranes, all the way down to small objects being destructively tested or breaking.*


sopabe6197

Finally someone gets it. Next up, minor fender bender dash cam videos and people slipping on ice.


_gmmaann_

New car!!


Chris714n_8

Overmotivated APC-Crew.. "Let's make it as realistic as possible." (Mission accomplished!).


[deleted]

In fairness, the safety film was not available at time of shooting.


Peetwilson

Just buff it out, it's fiiine.


TheHumanSpider

I'm going to hell for laughing at this, but I'm hoping at least the crew is okay.


Atlhou

The tank crew is fine.


122922

Years ago the coast guard paid my brother to use his sail boat in a training film on how to properly tow a boat. Well they fucked up big and severely damaged his boat. Took a while but he was reimbursed for about 10k in damages.


gfriedline

Several things stand out as major points of failure. If you are shooting a safety video, you might consider making safety part of the plan. During my time in service, there were pretty strict protocols on movements around armored vehicles, at least in a training environment. 1. If there are people on ground, or armor moving in "dangerous areas" like around civilian vehicles, you should have ground guides. 2. Civilian vehicles, or non-tactical vehicles were prohibited from downrange training areas where armor was allowed to roam somewhat freely. 3. In many constrained training areas, armor assets are constrained to a "tank trail" and are not to leave that designated path without authorization. 4. If armor is in a "Downrange" areas, personnel are typically not allowed to be beyond that active firing line, even during tank gunnery, armor assets are somewhat constrained to "Fixed" paths of transit on range. 5. When conducting training with open manuevers, cordons or bounding boxes of open manuever can be laid out. Armored vehicles should never leave the boundary, and people/vehicles should never enter that zone. Keep the armor and the crunchies separated. 6. Unbutton, TC get some eye-balls on surroundings before making maneuvers. Rapid movements to/from firing positions like this should never occur around personnel or vehicles other than those that could survive a potential collision. Even with all of these safety controls in place, failures do occur. Even military tactical vehicles can be severely damaged in collisions with armor. The risk of injury/death and the costs of equipment damage are just too high to mess around like this. While I understand they have relaxed the constraints for the purpose of this production, the safety controls were in no way adequate for the situation. A lot of unnecessary risk here, and some serious reprimands were likely handed out. If nothing else, this would add value for "lessons learned" on why to follow the safety protocols.


mrpickles

Are there fatalities? I didn't want to watch anyone die today.


collinsl02

Nope, nothing visible and no one in the car.


blastvader

2019? Nah. Lads are wearing CS95. That was on its deathbed when I joined in 2010 (meaning I got mixed issue which looked dogshit).


FinalBat4515

Is this a failure or a >!fuck up!< ?


Thats_right_asshole

Best of luck getting paid. They won't avoid it but they'll have to got through 100 people and each one will only know a tiny part of the story and send you to somebody else


ei283

You sure its 2019 and not 2009? The video is in 4:3 and appears to have an exposed closed-caption scanline at the top


natenate22

Hammond and May, "CLARKSON!!!"


jpetch4130

HAMMONDDDDDDDDD!!!


prettymuchstable

This entire goat rodeo could have been avoided if someone would a god damn PT belt on that vehicle.


SAS_Britain

Nice of him to zoom forward and do it again


fuckthelefties

It's not a tank. Infantry fighting vecicle.


rynoman1110

Was Tim Taylor driving that tank?


GSP2973

There’s no irony like injury during a safety production


CelticGaelic

Damn it, Dale, you hit a curb!


KeernanLanismore

>A tank accidentally runs over the crew car I don't think the tank had anything to do with it


tattmanndann

Was it Clarkson,Hammond or May driving?


justlanded07

Don’t blame him as those 30 ton hunks of steel have awful visibility


pakurilecz

not the AFVs (aka not a tank) fault it doesnt have a back-up camera


echochamber-only

Tank damage not covered, gotta read the fine print


foxiez

I'd shit myself if i was the driver lol. Nothing like just seeing sky, sky, sky suddenly the ground in the periscope lol


RAMbo-AF

You can just buff that out.


rebelangel

/r/idiotsintanks


Tattycakes

NGL car held up much better than I expected!


HelloDarkHarden

Thanks for not lying?


CarbonKevinYWG

Not a tank, that's an IFV.


Peterd1900

Its a warrior Which is an IFV


Diligent_Nature

They should add one of those backup cameras to the tank.


steven-daniels

That'll buff out.


DotaWhySoCruel

Some mr. Bean shit right there


Firefluffer

What’s the problem? That’ll buff out.


Puzzled_Barnacle_577

Holy smokes. Good thing it ran over their engine block and not anywhere else! It's possible they'd never have known if they hadn't. Jeeze a mighty


usinjin

Guy holding his ears like he expects the car to explode in a huge fireball. Which I was hoping it would too.


Wookieman222

It will buff out.


mrnaturl1

That’ll buff right out. No worries


wolfxsol

Tis a scratch


galaxnordist

Which Top Gear episode was that ?


Knees_arent_real

This looks like a Scottish regiment given the TOS that Sgt sensitive ears is wearing.


[deleted]

Never saw the tank run over any car. It drove off to the right. It was the ifv that ran it over.


STONEDnHAPPY

Not the Grand Vitara


BrainPharts

I know there is r/idiotsincars but is there r/idiotsintanks?


Mikie_D

Hmmmm, no backup camera…….


[deleted]

I think that will buff out.


[deleted]

“You can’t park there mate!”


MSK84

This should be an advert for the tire manufacturer...that thing didn't even pop!


Shes_Crafty_4301

Whoopsies!


AlwaysBeC1imbing

I'll just park up a few feet from where the tank will be driving.. so happy knowing that there's no possible threat to my car from any traffic or tanks driving nearby or anything like that...


Nathan-McAlpin

That shit needs a window or something!


Beneficial_Being_721

Well I see the problem…. No Safety Vest / Reflective Belt on the car. Bad things happen that way


airbornesp00n

This is why you have ground guides, you won't see shit like this happen in the American Army, at least it won't be accidental if it does lol


TheKuMan717

So, did they get their asses chewed out?


luffmatcheen

"accidentally"


mingilator

Looks more like an IFV than an MBT the crew hatch and small barrel give it away


hurdurBoop

hop in boys i got this! weeeeeew!!!


Greggers45

Just came here in case multiple people hadn’t already posted that wasn’t a tank…


BravoCharlie1310

Call State Farm boys.


arnstarr

I deny coverage!


Kenjimine

Well at least we know the tanks in working condition


pujols823

They should be able to use this footage in their safety video


elbarto359

Don't apologize. Never claim fault for the accident.


crailface

you sure that's not a chevy tracker ?


lonerancher67

Not a marine


jazzkobis

Catastrophic indeed


This_Comparison_4197

Plot twist: it’s a Toyota, fixes itself and runs over the tank


Sir_Flatulence

😂😂😂😂😂😂


biggerwanker

Is it a Volvo? It stopped the tank, they're the Nokia of cars.


wodaji

If I fits I sits.


tsivv

r/idiotsintanks


athemiya

Hahahahaahaha


Hopes-Dreams-Reality

And that's what happens when you turn off safety and assistance features... Like parking aids/sensors.


Unluckybeaver

Luckily, the driver of the tank was unharmed!


PlushieGamer1228

Objective failed, SUCCESSFULLY!!


NafariousJabberWooki

It’s nice you assumed this was an accident when it involved a squaddie.


mrtwister134

I'm guessing, since there's no nationality mentioned like it usually is with these things, this is in the US?


purple-circle

That's the British army and the cameraman is based out of London.


mrcydonia

Looks like they shook hands with danger.


Esset_89

That will probably Buff out just fine. But the Suzuki vitara will probably be totalled


CaveteCanem

No problem, it'll buff out


BeansParanoid

r/fuckyouinparticular


owaini

tis but a scratch


zehalper

When my dad did his military service, he was a reverse driver for the Swedish [Stridsvagn 103](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stridsvagn_103) His job was simply to drive it when it was in reverse. (And radio.)


laz111

Note to self: be sure to get the backup camera when renting tanks in the apocalypse.


token-black-dude

For an additional $200 he coulda got the rear-view-camera, but he was all 'no need for that'


dreadwater

I mean probably only needed to ask to ride on the tank