Dakar Rally canceled over terrorism concerns........

[JoFotoz]

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This SUCKZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ


http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/7635900?MSNHPHCP&GT1=10838.

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[Moncha]

To bad they couldn't use al-Qaida as speed bumps :mad::mad::mad::mad:

[Chopper]

Yeah, it is a dark day....but I wouldn't want to drive that route right now either.....I'd do it.....but I wouldn't like it.

[mdwyer]

I was pondering it on the drive home today... I can kind of see where they're coming from. A handful of guys with AK-47s in the middle of nowhere could cause havok.

Still, I was thinking that you could just strap a P90 or an MP7 on each competitor, and maybe a little body armor. Terrorists could be just another road hazard.

[Chopper]

Too much weight..........now I need to have someone run the weapons systems???? I'll stay home, thank you. I've better ways to spend 750k or so.

[Joe_Black]

Let the heavy-truck class run first, after being fitted with complimentary ring mounts and an M2. Oh, and give stage bonuses for ammo conservation. :bwgr:

[mdwyer]

Too much weight..........now I need to have someone run the weapons systems???? I'll stay home, thank you. I've better ways to spend 750k or so.

That's why I recommend the weapons I did. They're each under 3kg loaded and small enough to not get in the way. More than a handgun, less than an assault rifle.


Oh, and give stage bonuses for ammo conservation.

*snicker* See? We've got this all figured out... they shoulda' called us first...

[Triathlete]

There has got to be some pissed off team owners. That is a lot ot time, effert and huge $$$$ preparing a team, support and vehicle for nothing!
hey should have loaded up the big trucks with granade launchers, missle launchers and maybe a few front, side and rear claymores and let them have a field day on the entire course...or they could have just had a dozen or so A-10's fly some support missions over the course!

[nocturnalVX]

...or they could have just had a dozen or so A-10's fly some support missions over the course!
Problem solved!
Once you start limiting your freedoms, ending recreational activities, etc. you have given in & the terrorists have won. We are treated like crap in our airports. Our service men & women are fighting for safety and freedom in lands that will whip you, chop off body parts, or worse for offending thier delicate sensibilities and ancient backwards beliefs... :_brickwal

[Joe_Black]

Yeah, A10 Warthog cover would be sweet! But in reality terrorism usually wins without determined and extreme response, and this is just another case of its global impact. We were terrorists once, just ask the British, and it won us a nation. Curious to see what it wins the current group. :confused:

[Chopper]

There has got to be some pissed off team owners. That is a lot ot time, effert and huge $$$$ preparing a team, support and vehicle for nothing!
hey should have loaded up the big trucks with granade launchers, missle launchers and maybe a few front, side and rear claymores and let them have a field day on the entire course...or they could have just had a dozen or so A-10's fly some support missions over the course! All those goodies, would've made you a target. You bring A-10 cover, and the race is on!

[WormGod]

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

It just takes extreme sports to another level. I picture the scene from Star Wars where the sandpeople are taking pot shots at the pods in the pod race.

http://www.zetetique.org/images/sand_people.jpg

I am ALL for it.... as long as the navigator can shoot back that is. ;)

[Chopper]

Yeah, A10 Warthog cover would be sweet! But in reality terrorism usually wins without determined and extreme response, and this is just another case of its global impact. We were terrorists once, just ask the British, and it won us a nation. Curious to see what it wins the current group. :confused: It's gonna win them a glow that my grandchildren will read by at night. We won't need exploratory drilling.....we'll look down thru the glass, and see where the oil is! Screw them! I'm tired of this crap! Remove just the top three major metropolitan areas in each of say... the top six p.i.a. dusthole countries. None could survive such a strike. All you gotta do then, is wait for the rest to starve. I do not believe in limited warfare. You want some??? It's on!!

[navistar]

It's gonna win them a glow that my grandchildren will read by at night. We won't need exploratory drilling.....we'll look down thru the glass, and see where the oil is! Screw them! I'm tired of this crap! Remove just the top three major metropolitan areas in each of say... the top six p.i.a. dusthole countries. None could survive such a strike. All you gotta do then, is wait for the rest to starve. I do not believe in limited warfare. You want some??? It's on!!

Re: Sun tan lotions with a SPF of 2,000,000 +.

I love the Wart Hogs.

[navistar]

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

It just takes extreme sports to another level. I picture the scene from Star Wars where the sandpeople are taking pot shots at the pods in the pod race.

http://www.zetetique.org/images/sand_people.jpg

I am ALL for it.... as long as the navigator can shoot back that is. ;)

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away I was with 5th Group. Now I just hang with my surviving A Team...Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Ezra Brooks, Hiram Walker and other Kentucky Gentlemen and Wild Turkeys!

[Joe_Black]

It's gonna win them a glow that my grandchildren will read by at night. We won't need exploratory drilling.....we'll look down thru the glass, and see where the oil is! Screw them! I'm tired of this crap! Remove just the top three major metropolitan areas in each of say... the top six p.i.a. dusthole countries. None could survive such a strike. All you gotta do then, is wait for the rest to starve. I do not believe in limited warfare. You want some??? It's on!!

Unfortunately we haven't done it that way since 41 - 45 when the military was given an objective and allowed to achieve it. They've been hamstrung ever since. Personally we should close-up shop overseas, bring 'em all home and put 'em to use securing the borders airtight and let the rest of the world drown in the black stuff while we grow our own fuel like we did a century ago. If we bankrupt the oil cartels by not buying the stuff they lose most of their effectiveness, but as it stands right now each and every American that buys petroleum products is the biggest supporter of terrorism. Then again it's pretty much the "American way" anymore to fund both sides of a fight, just ask the Kurds. :rolleyes:

[circmand]

C'mon guys I am sure if we just follow the Democrat Party Plan of talking to these peoplt they would understand violence is wrong. They could get together at the beginning of the race with the competitors hold hands in a circle and sing a few choruses of Kumbaya and all the worlds problems would go away, there would be no more violence, starvation, or even pollution. To get it started at noon central time I want all our members to stop what they are doing, do some meditation then send all your psychic energy out into the world and to these terrorists with the message they can all kiss my ***.

[Joe_Black]

http://photos4.flickr.com/4903217_8a7b46daaa_m.jpg

Crazy! I mean like so many positive waves maybe we can't lose! You're on!


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[Moncha]

HA! just what I pictured!! You are fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuny!

[Joe_Black]

LOL, no one should go through life without having seen Kelly's Heroes. ;)

[Chopper]

Kinda what I had in mind:bwgr::bwgr:

[navistar]

Got it right here on DVD next to my Jack & Macanudos. I liked Oddball (Sutherland) and Crapgame (Rickles).

[VXIRONwoMAN]

:eek: I say that this should be the official vehicle for the Dakar Rally 2008! What do you all think??? LOL

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/jeepfire.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/jeepfire.jpg)

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/halo-big2.gif (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/halo-big2.gif)


See! It's already in production!!! :p



http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/Halo3522339d.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/Halo3522339d.jpg)

[VXIRONwoMAN]

Since we were speaking of Warthogs... It's heavily armored, sweet fire power and off road capabilities!!! SWEEEEET!

[mdwyer]

See! It's already in production!!! :p

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/thumbs/Halo3522339d.jpg (http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/Halo3522339d.jpg)

*sigh* Want.

I wonder if one of the vinyl wraps could make a VX looks somewhat convincingly like a warthog. ...as if the VX doesn't get enough looks as it is.

I was following one of those Scion boxes a few months ago that was advertising a vinyl service. The two guys inside almost broke their necks trying to look. I imagine they would love to get their hands on a VX...

[WormGod]

http://www.vehicross.info/gallery/data/500/Halo3522339d.jpg

Is that from production of the Halo movie, perhaps? :eek: