Keeping in mind that the driver of this Russian tank (actually it’s an anti-air armored vehicle) stumbled drunk into a store and bought two bottles of vodka and then proceeded to run over a couple of houses, listen to what the officer says at the end of this clip.
The driver was absolutely sober, because he was going to military exercises.
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My apologies to screedler who sent me this video a month or so back- I lost the link in my computerized clutter until this evening. This story is particularly interesting to me since my time in the military was spent in tanks. I have a few shocking tales of my own, unfortunately they need to stay under wraps as a matter of national secur… uh, reputation.
Thankfully know one got hurt, but it is hard not feel sympathy for the poor guy that had his house ran over by the very army that had left him homeless in the first place. My advice to the ladies screaming at the tank from behind: Never stand behind a tank. Even with a sober driver a tanker can only see directly in front of him without a commander up top to guide and can’t hear a thing except the sound of the vehicle. They are lucky they weren’t flattened.
Back to the officer who said the tank driver was “completely sober”… get a breathalyzer!
