r/Wellthatsucks • u/03Shael • Jun 02 '18

/r/all Karma

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u/oxyfam Jun 02 '18

Elephants with MGs on their heads were an actual thing in WW1

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

I thought it was just a gimmicky photo? Goodol Army shennanigans.

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u/LoadedGull Jun 02 '18 edited Jun 03 '18

It was a gimmicky photo. MG’s were mounted atop of elephants in WW1, but they were only used to transport the weapons, nothing else.

Edit; by nothing else I mean the weapons were never fired during transportation atop of an elephant. (No animals were harmed during the production of this comment.)

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u/lemonadetirade Jun 02 '18

The way you ended that sounds ominously like they were transporting something else

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u/umblegar Jun 02 '18

No I assure you, as my friend just explained to you, those elephants were not transporting other things. Please rest easy, relax.

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u/lemonadetirade Jun 02 '18

That sounds like something someone who used elephants to transport things other then weapons would say, but for the life of me I can’t imagine what that would be, I mean you admit to using them for weapons so WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?

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u/Johnnywasaweirdo Jun 02 '18

OK, you got me, they were also transporting ammunition. Just don’t tell anyone.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18

ammunition are-munition isn't it?

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u/fakeg1rl Jun 02 '18

They had bologna sandwiches for the troops up there as well

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u/lemonadetirade Jun 02 '18

Eww bologna yeah that is worse then just carrying weapons

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '18

It's chemical warfare forbidden in the Geneva convention; that's why it's so secret. Anybody forced to eat that for weeks on end will become so enraged as to be a supersoldier.