Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 10/31/2018 at 09:00 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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vondon302 > ttyymmnn 10/31/2018 at 09:07

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Outtakes from the Italian job.

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > ttyymmnn 10/31/2018 at 09:15

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That’s an impressive trumpet he’s playing

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 10/31/2018 at 09:17

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Happy Halloween! Is that your costume for trick or treat?

facw > ttyymmnn 10/31/2018 at 09:19

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Interestingly, the previous time I had been in Rome, the Carabinieri were out in force, armed with submachine guns (11/2001, so people may have been on edge) , but this summer they were pretty subdued. Instead, you had the Army deployed at major tourist sites.

Not at all a fan of using the military to provide security domestically (an obvious police duty), either in Italy, or here at home (I hate that we still have Guardsmen deployed to Grand Central Terminal, maybe that was necessary right after 9/11, but we’re nearly two decades out, surely they could have found a way to do it with civilian police by now).

InFierority Complex > facw 10/31/2018 at 09:31

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Technically the Carabinieri are a part of the Italian armed forces.

The soldiers on the streets in Italy are a part of Operation Safe Streets which has been going on for a decade or so, now?

ttyymmnn > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 10/31/2018 at 09:31

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Lots of vibrato.

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 10/31/2018 at 09:31

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Yes. It’s a kit that comes with the helicopter and the car. 

facw > InFierority Complex 10/31/2018 at 09:37

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Yeah, the Carabinieri are military police, but that still makes them seem significantly better suited for the role than the army .

SHARPSPEED > ttyymmnn 10/31/2018 at 09:42

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Inflatable helicopters? Damn, now I know how my sister’s idiot boss was able to afford one.

user314 > SHARPSPEED 10/31/2018 at 10:05

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You laugh, but during the early Cold War Goodyear worked on an inflatable airplane .

The idea was to produce a rescue plane that could be airdropped to downed pilots, and a dozen Inflatoplanes of various models were built between 1956 and 1973.

Only two survive, one at the NASM’s Garber facility awaiting restoration, and the other at the Stonehenge Air Museum in Fortine, Montana.