"We enjoyed all of the time that we spent driving the tanks, firing the machine guns..."

Mon Dec 10, 2012 3:58 PM EST

—Customer comment from the DriveATank site, where you can add the crushing of a car to your tank drive for an extra $549.00.

Dragoon21b

Why join the Army when you can pretend for a couple hours

Just out of curiosity I wonder if they had to DeMil the main gun on that thing...

#1 - Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:04 PM EST

Will Femia

They did. Apparently that's a legal requirement.

#1.1 - Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:08 PM EST

Uffdaguy

Reminds me of an episode of "Malcom in the Middle", where Dad sneaks away from home every day to drive a steamroller over stuff.

#2 - Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:25 PM EST

MariaBlumberg

There was a piece on NPR about this a few months back. What people find entertaining. <roll eyes>

#3 - Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:39 PM EST

MeddlingMonk

Meaning 'people with mismatched chromosomes', I'm guessing.

1 vote

#3.1 - Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:41 PM EST

Big Gary C

Or you could just run for Congress. Members of Congress play these games for free (free to them, that is-- not to the rest of us).

#4 - Mon Dec 10, 2012 4:59 PM EST

D. C. Sessions

Why pay extra to crush a car when you can get a tax deduction for your beater and then ... wait for it ... get a high-res, high-speed video of it being blown up?

Where do you think Mythbusters get those cars they destroy at EMRTC's boomstuff range? Last I heard they were still accepting donated cars to use as training car bombs and such. Unfortunately, they had to cancel Explosives Camp this year, but there's always next year.

#5 - Mon Dec 10, 2012 6:59 PM EST

DAY-3905329

Heh. I got paid for driving a tank. But that was in 1964, when college grads could pick and chose their MOS!