quote:A .50-Caliber M2 machine gun is lowered into the cargo area of a GMC Suburban as it is prepared for towing to a test site from the Ibis Tek shop in Butler, Pa. on Friday, Aug. 2, 2002. A .40-mm grenade launcher is offered as an alternative weapon. An Ibis ride with all the trimmings will set you back about $500,000. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
quote:The front door of Ibis Tek and the company's Director of Engineering, Paul Slovick are reflected in the rear window of a GMC Suburban that they modified to fit a .50-Caliber M2 machine gun as it rolls out of the shop in Butler, Pa. on Friday, Aug. 2, 2002. With the flip of a switch the gun can be raised from or lowered into the cargo area. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
Although WHY anyone would need this....
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
Is it even legal to mount that kind of weaponry? LOL.
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
might come in handy for the slow drivers that get confused around the 95-195 merge. I'd like to teach a few of them a lesson.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I find that TurboBoost and Ski Mode would be more effective in heavy traffic situations than heavy artillery.
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
i havetwo dummy buttons on my dash labeled _*PHASERS*_ and _*PHOTON TORPEDOES*_ and people always try and hit the torpedo button first! i have to stop them, and I'm all like
"Didn't you see 'Q Who?' or 'New Ground'!? if the torps detonate too close, theyll damage us too with radiation!!, and beside we only have so many til we get back to the AlphaQuadrant!!!!
and theyre all like
'But the phasers have been rerouted through the warp drive! we cant fire while we're at warp.. thats why i countermanded your phaser order!'
Keep in mind these conversations take place when i'm alone.
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
Uh huh.
**loads tranquilizer rifle**
Posted by Magnus Pym Eye (Member # 239) on :
I must move to, uh, Rhode Island?
_*MUST*_ Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Remind me not to be Mike's passenger. Ever.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
quote:Originally posted by Captain... Mike:
"Didn't you see 'Q Who?' or 'New Ground'!? if the torps detonate too close, theyll damage us too with radiation!!, and beside we only have so many til we get back to the AlphaQuadrant!!!!
I believe you're thinking of "The Nth Degree". There were no comments about firing a torpedo close to the ship in "Q Who".
Posted by Siegfried (Member # 29) on :
I thought it was the episode where Alexander came to live with Worf, and the little laddie was caught in the biolab with the worm-things. The Enterprise needed to fire torpedoes to dissipate a wave, but gaps in the shielding caused the biolab to be open to radiation damage.
Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :
Well, with the conversation going on in his head, it's no wonder why there was an error.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Somehow, I'm not surprised that the guy in those pictures is wearing a cowboy hat...
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Ah... this might be the perfect tool to reduce road rage! Because all of the idiots who are too slow/stupid get blown off the highway. And after a while, no one would dare drive like a madman for fear of getting blown away themselves.
I've occasionally wished for something similar, but not nearly such a high caliber. A hood-mounted dart rifle would be fine, to blow out the tires of the asshole who just cut me off. Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Projectile weapons are so 20th century...
Posted by Vice-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Hey, at least Captain Mike's car isn't a BMW that's geared up like James Bond's car including condom dispensers, champagne bottle chillers, and surface to air missle launchers.
Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :
The Champagne chiller was in his Aston Martin. Pay attention, man...
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Condom dispensers... El Capitan might have a use for those.
Posted by Snay (Member # 411) on :
quote:A hood-mounted dart rifle would be fine, to blow out the tires of the asshole who just cut me off
That's a good way to avoid a multi-car accident, especially at a high rate of speed on a heavily traveled highway or major road.
_*NOT*_
Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :
Already got one on order. Me and Paul go way back. Who else did you think would suggest this sort of design?
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by Snay: That's a good way to avoid a multi-car accident, especially at a high rate of speed on a heavily traveled highway or major road.
Ah, okay. Sorry, I assumed that we weren't being totally logical here. I mean, who the hell would want to have a machine gun mounted on their SUV anyway? For real?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
The Road Warrior.
Any Batman villain.
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
I'm getting a machine gun mounted on my Accord. Why'd you think I got the v6?
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
To spread the good news about Jesus?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
...via machine gun.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
...red letter ed. micro etched into each round.
Posted by Captain... Mike (Member # 709) on :
In 'Q Who' they met the Borg for the first time and were running from them and there was discussion of firing more torpedoes without rendering the Enterprise uninhabitable i thought.
New Ground actually did so, causing major damage to the (apparently) aft-ward, secondary hull lab with Alexander and the slug thing.
Dont remember anything about torpedoes in 'The nth Degree'.. maybe you wrong
havent needed a condom dispenser yet. i have a 1988 ST:TNG lunchbox full of them in the trunk. its the blue plastic one with the picture of the season 1 cast with flying asteroids with guns behind them. quite nonsensical. i didnt buy the condoms, they were handing them out to all the kids on the street and they gave me a lot (i think because i was lying on the hood of my car with 2 girls) but i havent needed one yet. once i do need one or more than one i would consider a dispenser, but until then im going to continue saying no and posting the hourglass to the left there.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
I am so right here it's untrue. They were firing aft torpedoes at the Borg in "Q Who", but there was no discussion of radiation or whatnot. The fact that the torpedoes weren't doing any damage at all was the main thing.
In "The Nth Degree", they werre being chased by a probe thingy. They tried firing phasers at it, and it had no effect. Someone suggested torpedoes, but it turned out it would damage the ship. Barclay, now a super genius, diverted warp power from the engines to the shields, boosting them by a Really Big Amount (good thing Scotty never ever did something like that, eh?) This allowed them to fire the aft torpedoes without damaging the ship.
I rule. You are wrong, Mr Fake Captain. In your large face!
Posted by Colorful Cartman (Member # 256) on :
Nerd.
Posted by MaGiC (Member # 59) on :
Threads like this remind me why I date women....
Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :
HAving that gun mounted on a SUV would no doubt make a deer think twice about crossing Snay's path.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Why? It's hardly going to be worse than what he does to them now, is it?
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