Hairy Mary armored train with hemp rope armor from the Boer War.

  • @[email protected]
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    321 year ago

    It’s actually camouflage. The enemy will think it’s just a migrating giant yarn bundle and not shoot it

  • Archmage Azor
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    171 year ago

    Ah, the wooly mammoth camouflage. A classic, sadly it only tricks the enemy for as long as it takes them to remember that wooly mammoths are extinct.

      • @[email protected]M
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        31 year ago

        I was being facetious about the strong smell of hemp, my brother in Christ. For all I know, Mary had a long and odiferous career, full of adventure.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          I was actually trying to add another joke, but it wasn’t funny outside my head so I edited it out.

          • @[email protected]M
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            21 year ago

            Eh, that’s cool, I wanna hear it anyways! I promise to laugh with you and not at you. Pinkie promise.

  • @[email protected]M
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    41 year ago

    the shittiest of technicals

    i think similar contraptions were used in propellant factories of the era as blast shields, but it’s kinda pointless this way when curtain can’t flex under stress. maybe perhaps it will stop tiny fragments or shot and the slowest of bullets, otherwise it would probably cause more trouble when it catches fire

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        41 year ago

        Well that and the fact they are made of asbestos, and raising and lowering friable asbestos fabric all the time in a public space isn’t the best idea.