Retread wrote on 08/15/12 at 10:17:26: Not skered... I've seen 750K aircraft knocked out of the sky with old SKS rifles.. Seen tanks disabled with bamboo stakes... Watched as people crawled out of holes in the ground after being hit with B-52 strikes...
Hell I've seen a tank disabled with a rock ... agreed it was in a movie, but it was really real.
Anything is lethal if the other person is clueless/cooperative/powerless.
I've seen several villages massacred by the nazi's by drowning the people in a bucket of water. They held em down till they died. Wasn't there a trough in WW2 that they used to kill 1000's.
All I have to use here is the law of averages. If you were to go up against a tank with bamboo shoots skered or not, 99 times out of a 100 the bamboo will be used in your funeral. The one time you get the tank to roll onto your bamboo shoots, lose traction and roll down into the ravine it hasn't noticed well, that can be your "holy grail". After a village is carpet bombed Will 1 guy walk out alive cos he's hiding under a metal tub - yes, is it worth counting on that fact, hell, no.
Other factors do count, like 3000 people with bamboo vs 1 tank ... its only slightly more effective than 3000 people without bamboo BTW.
Cool.
Srinath.