From:	Kama kama@*******.net
Subject:	Slightly off topic question
Date:	Tue, 23 Feb 1999 10:15:59 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Bob Tockley wrote:

> > Well, it doesn't *totally* fail. It can still scratch the paint.
>
> And the mechwarrior inside, unbalanced by the violence he's seen and by the
> scratch on the hand-painted mech armour that took him 209 hours to
> complete, turns suicidal because of it - immediately deactivating the
> safeties on his fusion core and causing a catastrophic explosion to
> result...
>

Don't laugh to hard. When my husband was living on Guam there was a loca
scandel involving the downing of an F-18 (did I get that right? - feel fre
to correct me). Anyway, it seems that teh local park ranger had gotten
overly irritated at the low passes aircraft were making over the park. So
he decided to take a "harmless" pot shot at teh multi-million doaar craft
with his trusty huntin' gun. However, the lucky bullet managed to hit a
hydrollic line leading to the planes landing gear, resulting in the
landing gear no longer functioning. The plane had to be ditched. Teh park
ranger subsequently lost his job and I believe there were osme charges
regarding the destruction of government property.

The sad part is, if he hadn't bragged about what he had shot down, they
might not have ever figured out who was responsible.

In any case, while it is very hard to account for in the mechanics of any
game, it is possible for a vastly under powered weapon to destroy a
vehicle it shouldn't be able to in real life.

Kama
Keeper of the Dicebag from Hell (tm)