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Title: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: cattb on May 23, 2011, 07:39:34 PM: Thought this was funny.
http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/09/6018399-seven-year-old-boy-buys-fighter-jet-on-ebay (http://technolog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/02/09/6018399-seven-year-old-boy-buys-fighter-jet-on-ebay)

http://www.jetartdesigns.co.uk/seaharrier/index.html (http://www.jetartdesigns.co.uk/seaharrier/index.html)
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: F22RaptorDude on May 23, 2011, 07:41:54 PM: :O I'm sure his dad was quite pissed at his son
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: sntslilhlpr6601 on May 23, 2011, 10:50:39 PM: "Garden Feature"???

So does that mean they expect some rich guy to use it as a centerpiece in his garden or does that mean something else across the pond? :confused:
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: allaire on May 23, 2011, 11:31:13 PM: If you read the second link you would see that it has been restored to be a static display/museum feature.
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: ScottyK on May 26, 2011, 08:26:56 PM: Quote from: F22RaptorDude on May 23, 2011, 07:41:54 PM
:O I'm sure his dad was quite pissed at his son

hmm where have i seen that panda before? :headscratch:
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: MachFly on May 26, 2011, 08:34:36 PM: I was reading the first link, and it said that the jet was only $113,000. So I'm thinking "I got to go get a loan real quick this is cheap", than I find out it was not airworthy :furious.
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: F22RaptorDude on May 26, 2011, 08:39:13 PM: Quote from: ScottyK on May 26, 2011, 08:26:56 PM

hmm where have i seen that panda before? :headscratch:
Its a badger :D
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: MachFly on May 26, 2011, 08:46:12 PM: Quote from: F22RaptorDude on May 26, 2011, 08:39:13 PM
Its a badger :D

There is something wrong here
:headscratch: I though this is what a Badger looked like

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Tu-16_Badger_E.jpg/800px-Tu-16_Badger_E.jpg)
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: F22RaptorDude on May 26, 2011, 08:48:42 PM: Quote from: MachFly on May 26, 2011, 08:46:12 PM
There is something wrong here
:headscratch: I though this is what a Badger looked like

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/Tu-16_Badger_E.jpg/800px-Tu-16_Badger_E.jpg)
:rofl Try this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI) Should clear things up :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: MachFly on May 26, 2011, 08:50:35 PM: Quote from: F22RaptorDude on May 26, 2011, 08:48:42 PM
:rofl Try this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIyixC9NsLI) Should clear things up :rolleyes:

Wrong link?
I did not see a single Badger in that video.
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: ink on May 26, 2011, 08:55:42 PM: Badger.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: JOACH1M on May 26, 2011, 09:00:10 PM: Only 113$ for a harrier? :huh
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: F22RaptorDude on May 26, 2011, 09:01:16 PM: Quote from: ink on May 26, 2011, 08:55:42 PM
Badger.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
:rofl :rofl :rofl I almost died of laughing the first time I saw this.
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: MachFly on May 26, 2011, 09:03:28 PM: Quote from: ink on May 26, 2011, 08:55:42 PM
Badger.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

They named an animal after the Tu-16? :neener:

Seriously though I had no idea of it's existence.
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: ink on May 26, 2011, 09:07:30 PM: Quote from: F22RaptorDude on May 26, 2011, 09:01:16 PM
:rofl :rofl :rofl I almost died of laughing the first time I saw this.

me too man sunny crap right there :rofl

Quote from: MachFly on May 26, 2011, 09:03:28 PM
They named an animal after the Tu-16? :neener:

Seriously though I had no idea of it's existence.

thing is bad ass.
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: caldera on May 26, 2011, 09:18:28 PM: Quote from: ScottyK on May 26, 2011, 08:26:56 PM

hmm where have i seen that panda before? :headscratch:

I wondered that too. :headscratch:
Title: Re: Seven-year-old boy buys fighter jet on eBay
Post by: ScottyK on May 26, 2011, 10:42:02 PM: :lol need to put a TM next to it lol