When boredom strikes

[2nd92nd FA Administrator]

This is actually creepy, but I know when guys get bored somewhere far away...they may try this:

media.ebaumsworld.com/wmv/iraqspider.wmv

[frederickstone]

Now that's messed up. LOL I think I could find something else to curtail my boredom.

[hartman]

Hey I was thinking of something funny.I remember when we were in the field in graf , we always had guard duty at night. all e4 and below pulled guard shifts,and e5's and e6's were sgt of the guard. I remember when I went on my shift , I had to walk the entire perimeter every half hour checking the guards,making sure the right people were on shift, and that no one was asleep at their post. I remember one night ,about 1 oclock in the morning, I walked the perimeter with my red lens in my flashlight checking on the guards when I walked up to one of the guard posts which was deserted. We usually could locate the guards by the sound of their voices {conversations}. I looked around and couldn't find the 2 guys. So I figured that they were still asleep and never relieved the previous guards {a common problem}. I called out their names and heard a voice call back about 20 ft away up in a tree. I asked them what was going on, and they said they thought someone was trying to sneak up on them and catch them asleep, so they took the colored lens out of their flashlight and tried to blind them. When they did this they blinded one of the biggest boar hogs Grafenwohr had to offer. The hog charged them up the tree,sleeping bags and all while it enjoyed the mre cocoa powder. I will always remember this till the day I die.

[Martin Hall]

That brings back a few memories of "The Hogs" when I was in Graff.

Knowing how scared some of the people were of the hogs, usually after hearing stories of encounters passed on while sitting around in the tents in the evening ... and being a regular prankster ... I used to take great delight in sneaking out of the tent and go around to the side and slip on my gas mask. I would stand there until there was a lull in the noise inside and then come up under the tent and make snorting sounds and squeal like a pig. (With the mask on it made it sound a whole lot closer to the real thing.) Needless to say, after people recovered from the initial shock ... I could hear expletives and threats from those that had been the very ones that had jumped off their bunks and d**n near run over other people trying to get away from "The Hog". Of course, I ran off into the night laughing like a Mad Hatter with glee. I must have pulled that stunt many times and always got the desired effect each time.

Well, I got my payback one night when I had to leave the Ratt rig to go start the second 5KW generator because the first one had run out of gas and left me sitting in the rig with no lights, no radios, etc. I grabbed my flashlight (with the red filter) and went out the door and started following the power cable to the trailer where the generators were mounted. About halfway to the generators I ran head-on into one each ... Mr. Hog. Normally, the thought of hogs being in the area never even bothered me. Most of us (Ratt operators) just figured that the noise of the generators would keep them out of the area, but with that d**n red lens on the flashlight ... and not being able to see that well with it, well, when I ran into the hog it caught me by complete surprise ... and the hog went running and squealing one way ... and I went running in the opposite direction . (We had managed to scare the hell out of each other.)

Yes, I had to be fair about it and tell some of the others what had happened ... and of course, they got a big laugh out of it.

Did that stop my hog pranks? No, I continued on pulling the same stunt at every "Graf" and always managed to find victims.

[mikebarberian]

lol You guys our hogs are very nasty lol
Having lived in the states for so long i forgot how cantakerous them buggers can be lol