Hobo Jungle

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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Final report on the three that were delivered to Camp Lejuene.

One was broken into several pieces.
One was lost.
One showed signs of repeated violent sexual assault.

Hilarious. That's some funny stuff right there. You must be the life-of-the-party, beer or no beer.

[webenda]

I read almost the same thing Jon, on SlashDot.

LS3 could run for 24 hours straight on a 20-mile mission across rough terrain. No controller was needed; it took visual and verbal cues from soldiers to find its way. So why didn't the Marine Corps want to use it? The robot's gas-powered engine isn't exactly the stealthiest piece of technology. They told one of the LS3s to "Get lost, you are too noisy." They all laughed as it galloped away. Then, as the sound of its noisy engiine and feet crashing on the forest floor faded into the forest, reality hit them, it wasn't coming back.

When the marines got back from searching for the lost one, they found the other two having robot sex. The two amorous robots ignored commands from the marines to stop so they were shut down. The robot mule trials were cancelled and two stuck together robot mules were returned to Boston Dynamics. B.D. has been searching for the runaway. It is not known if it has been found yet.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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When the marines got back from searching for the lost one, they found the other two having robot sex. The two amorous robots ignored commands from the marines to stop so they were shut down. The robot mule trials were cancelled and two stuck together robot mules were returned to Boston Dynamics. B.D. has been searching for the runaway. It is not known if it has been found yet.

Maybe it found a Jeep it fancied, and they are busy being amorous. One of them is bound to find the experience too mechanical, however, so their relationship is likely to be fleeting.

[2railjon]

Maybe it found a Jeep it fancied, and they are busy being amorous.

Murph!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Maybe it found a Jeep it fancied, and they are busy being amorous.

Murph!!!! LMAO!!!!!!!!

I'm glad you liked that, Jon. That was the cleaned-up version. I figured the original version that came to mind immediately needed a little spit-n-polish.

[Mitch]

Holy guacamole, Mitch!! Your Captain had no sense of humor at all!
But then again I've never suffered the effects of consuming an entire bottle of gin either!!

I can tell ya another thing about gettin' loaded on Gin. You absolutely cannot pass up a water fountain for the next two days after. Man, you talk about dehydration. I'd drink water 'til I thought I was gonna bust, stand up, turn around, and right back down to the water!

It was a bad night in early December. We had a USO show in from the mainland, (4 pc. band and two exotic dancers), the whole thing held outside of the EM club, which was also open air. Our SeaBee Battalion was quartered up on Coranaso Point. I didn't start the fight, and I didn't finish it, but there were a few who knew I'd been there. Master Chief Evans, who was the OOD that Saturday night, tells me to go to the barracks, but Nooooo! I'm back in it again, and 4 SPs finally got me down, handcuffed me behind my back, picked me up, and literally threw me on my face into the back of a gray Navy pickup. Master Chief thought I was doped up or something, so they drove me straight to the hospital. I remember a big guy comin' out to the truck, the SPs pulled my pants down, and big guy slams a needle in my ***! I rolled partway over and said "there ain't no needle gonna put me out"!, and WHAM!! Another one in the other cheek. That's the last I remembered 'til about 2:30AM when I woke up on the floor of the cell in my skivvies! Base police called the Captain early Sunday morning and got him out of bed, which is another reason he was not amused. 4 months later in April when my appendix ruptured, I found out the "big guy" was the chief anesthesist at the hospital, a LCDR. Our Battalion captain was a full CDR.

I have a little Indian blood in me. Ya just can't give us too much firewater!

[2railjon]

Yikes, Mitch!!! Glad you survived that escapade!!!!

[2railjon]

A couple more cars from my Limited Rufus Collection!

[rogruth]

Jon,

Good to see you give credit where due.

And you really do need an appropriate loco
or have a museum train going to Strasburg.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I had forgotten about that rail, tie, and tool car.

I will be building another one soon, OB variant, if what I see in the stack behind the radial saw is any indication of things in the queue.

I need to get another MoW car build underway soon!!

[mickeydee]

Great looking scene Jon and Rufus' vehicles look too good to be true. It would be a shame to do this but they would probably benefit from some weathering to make them look their age. Or how about really pushing the envelope and giving them the circus train treatment with bright paintwork and lettering? After all some of those private rail stocks hung onto old equipment way past their normal scrap date. Just an idea.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Great looking scene Jon and Rufus' vehicles look too good to be true. It would be a shame to do this but they would probably benefit from some weathering to make them look their age. Or how about really pushing the envelope and giving them the circus train treatment with bright paintwork and lettering? After all some of those private rail stocks hung onto old equipment way past their normal scrap date. Just an idea.

I deliberately left them freshly shopped for Jon to weather as he desired. His call entirely. I've done the hard use weathering on some of my MoW cars and then done none at all.

[2railjon]

Well I do have a nice set of pastel chalks. But they sit in the box and mock me because I suck at weathering. but I am pretty good at drinking beer and scaring my neighbors when I mow the yard naked.

[rogruth]

Jon,

[rogruth]

Jon,

You saying you actually still have neighbors?