How can I stop my neighbour calling his van, his "Military Tank"?

October 6th, 2010 by eranio

Putting camoflage around his van and putting on a fake gun does NOT make it a tank, and I’m sick of hearing him go on about his new tank, it’s a van. It doesn’t have the caterpiller wheels, or the gun, it’s a van.

He’s also called it his Armoured Utility Vehicle which is almost as bad.

How can I convince him to simply call it his van or his truck or his wheels or whatever?

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I have a question about military guns?

July 1st, 2010 by eranio

Some snipers or soldiers have a gun with a scope or red dot. They have some kind of riser or something like that which they can adjust the scope to fit their eye, like move the scope around without taking the scope off. Its kind of like a weaver thing.
What’s it called and where can I get one?
Yeah kinda like what the first two answers said.
Also is there any weaver that makes you be able to move the scope over? Like some kind of weaver that runs on wheels that you can turn to the side? Thanks!

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today i was driving down the freeway and saw a military vehicle w/ men on top and they had their BIG guns out?

February 9th, 2010 by eranio

it looked like the pics you see of the men and women patrolling the streets of iraq, on the big tank-type vehicles (but the kind w/ actual wheels, not those weird chain thingies) where they’re standing on top with their m-16′s or whatever big guns out and ready, just in case, only it was on a california freeway! we’re far from any base that i know of, they were headed north, and san diego is south of me. 29 palms and all that, im not sure what direction that is from me, but its a good 1.5 hrs away. so what im basically wondering is, i’ve seen military vehicles before, but never w/ the boys on top with their giant guns out in their hands! does anyone know what this was? i assume the guns werent loaded and it was some kind of training activity, but i grew up in a HEAVILY military populated area and have never seen this before, especially not on the freeway and not w/ the guns out!
lol i was NOT being paranoid, i could plainly see them, and im very used to seeing military vehicles on the road. like i said, i grew up in norfolk, va, look it up, world’s largest naval base, but anyway, i’ve seen a million convoys and military vehicles by themselves, and w/ the boys standing on top, but never holding guns. they weren’t small guns, they were BIG, so i didn’t imagine them. and im not being paranoid b/c i didn’t find this sight worrisome in the least, i just am curious to know if anyone w/ any military background whatsoever knows why they would have been there like that. like i said, i assume it was training, but what a long way from base they were!
it wasn’t a tank w/ a mounted gun, they were guns the boys were holding. and i highly doubt it was a movie shoot, although a good theory, because we were in rush hour on friday afternoon in heavy traffic on the 15 freeway. about 2 hours north of camp pendleton.

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