Zwei die den Booby Prize nicht gewinnen werden: - 500 Beiträge pro Seite

[Gösta]

Jeder kennt sie, sodass ich mir hier tatsächlich
die Namensnennung sparen kann.

Gösta

[Streetmax]

Gösta,

nehm doch nicht alles gleich vorweg!

Darf ich raten - ja????

Streetmax

[der maler]

gösta hier mach ich auch mit also warte auf antwort

[rsreifen]

gösta

hmmmmmmm mhhhhhhhh ohhhhhh jaaaa

also mir fällt keiner ein wenn meinst du?????????


hahahahahahahahhahaahahah

gruss von jp pd reifen

[Gösta]

Reifen,

was ist das denn für eine Reifensorte,
die passen sich wahrscheinlich jeder Straßenlage an oder??

Gösta,

[rsreifen]

gösta

bei uns heisst das allrounder hahahahahahahhahhaa


gruss von ................

[Krawallmacher]

aber die kann den booby-price gewinnen:

[ZimtOchse]

was ist denn ein "Booby Price" ?

Zufällig bin ich auf eine interessante Geschichte über Booby Traps gestoßen.
Wenn man das gelesen hat, ist auch der Totalverlust nur noch halb so schlimm.

ciao ZO

http://www.securenet.net/3rdbn5th/mike35/booby.htm

Booby Traps

by Brad Reynolds

The dry season was hot and humid. It was like standing in a sauna all the time, until night came. Then, you would freeze when the wind started blowing off the South China Sea.

During the dry season, you had to worry more about booby traps because the VC knew the Americans would head for shade every chance they got. It was hard to convince the new men in country to stay away from the shaded areas until they saw some of their buddies blown to bits. It`s no wonder booby traps were the Number One Killer in Vietnam.

There were many booby traps our outfit had to deal with like pungi stakes that were put in tall grass facing the trail. When the VC opened fire on us, men would dive into the tall grass just to be torn apart by the stakes.

We also had to watch out for the Tiger Pit. These were holes approximately three to four feet in diameter and five to six feet deep. The stakes inside the pit would vary from one foot to three and four feet high. These pits were usually on a main trail heading into a village. I have come as close as I ever want to from falling into one. A hell of a way to die.

Then they had the Foot Trap. This was a hole about knee deep with stakes that were placed at an angle pointing down so they could penetrate the canvas part of your jungle boot. It was a painful experience because you would have to let someone reach in and cut the stakes loose from your leg and from the side of the hole.

There was another trap that I saw only once while I was there. It consisted of two pieces of wood with spikes at the end of the boards, and when you stepped on it, it acted like a bear trap, slamming against the calf portion of your leg. Pulling the boards and spikes out was extremely painful--you didn`t have time to be gentle while receiving incoming rounds.

The booby traps that did the most damage were the command detonated ones. These were made from unexploded bombs, mortars or grenades. The VC would rig them up with some type of firing device and explode them when they wanted to. I`ve seen as many as 20 trucks go over a portion of the road, and all of a sudden, the next one would be blown off the road.

Probably the most feared booby trap was the Bouncing Betty. These weren`t designed to kill you, just cut you in half. If you stepped on one, you would probably be paralyzed for life, lose your legs, or the family jewels.

In my case, it was half my ass.

[Gösta]

Krawall,

die ist der Booby Prize, mit der
können die beiden aber leider nichts mehr anfangen.
Due to old age.

Gösta

[Gösta]

ZO,

Ja das sind Erfahrungen, die wir leider nicht machen konnten.
Ok, es gab Versuche von Bundesaußenminister unseren Soldaten die Grausamkeit der Asiaten ein wenig näher
zu bringen (Bundeswehrsoldaten für Osttimur), leider hat die Presse nicht weiter mit Intensität berichtet, sodass ich jetzt gar nicht weiß ob einer da wirklich Erfahrung sammeln konnte. Interessant finde ich auch diese "stille Falle" mit dem depleted uranium und dem Plutonium im Kosovo.
Fast schon wie BSE. Du siehst es nicht, du hörst es nicht, du riechst es nicht, du schmeckst es nicht,du fühlst es nicht, aber eines Tages spürst du es. Fast umgekehrt wie mit der MBX, da hast du es doch eigentlich erst gespürt und nun siehst du es.

Nichtsdestotrotz sind das in dem von dir angeführten Bericht Lebenserfahrungen, die sicher bilden.

Gösta