Tanksis join London commuter battlefield

[garyopa]

The Tanksis have made a powerful alternative to black cabs as a way of getting around London

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London has been turned into a battlefield after an invasion of tanks, there is no need to panic though. It’s not an attack by a foreign power and it’s not a heavy-handed tactic to remove protesters

It is all just a silly publicity stunt by EA to promote their new video game Battlefield 3 which was released this week for Playstation 3, Xbox 360 and PC.



Tanksis have become the capital's newest form of transport, with a team of 16-tonne Abbot tanks rolling into town this week to carry lucky commuters to work.

Asking for no fares, the tanks have fought their way through the usual traffic chaos in the jammed-up streets around famous London landmarks including Big Ben, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, and even Buckingham Palace.

Tom Goldberger, from Battlefield 3 publisher Electronic Arts, said: "Tanksis have been brought to the capital to make the urban battlefield that is London's roads more of a joy than the daily chore they currently are."




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NEWS SOURCE: Invasion of Tanks (via) London 24 (http://www.london24.com/news/transport/video_tanksis_join_london_commuter_battlefield_1_1 112276)

[billysastard]

i have to say that as publicity stunts go this was about as good as the actual launch of battlefield 3, hard to find, damaging to roads, clogging traffic all that was missing was some greedy twat from ea demanding an additional "on road" fee when you started your journey if you werent the first user of that tanksi, then charging an additional fee for each road you "chose" to travel on.

now, when ntl launched their 100meg internet service they used supercars as taxis, a much better idea (unless you had luggage).

[wewii]

Looks to me like government is trying to desensitize the public from seeing military vehicles in the streets.

Is the gov planning martial law to stop all the people fed up with the current state of the economy, bankster greed and governmental ignorance/dismissal of the peoples legitimate problems?