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[r.soleofsalford]

The guy in the background walking towards the tanks had some serious balls, I wonder what happened to him.

Its another angle of this:

Tiananmean Square

Should have put that in the original post really

What did happen to that guy?

he ended up painting that tank

 

[BWTAC]

The guy in the background walking towards the tanks had some serious balls, I wonder what happened to him.

Its another angle of this:

Tiananmean Square

Should have put that in the original post really

What did happen to that guy?

He had to do another big shop at Iceland because all his food thawed out.

 

[BlueBearBoots]

BWTAC - I shouldnt have but I laughed

 

[BlueBearBoots]

In case anyone is interested -


The incident took place near Tiananmen on Chang'an Avenue, which runs east-west along the north end of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese government's violent crackdown on the Tiananmen protests. The man stood in the middle of the wide avenue, directly in the path of a column of approaching Type 59 tanks. He wore a white shirt and black pants, and held two shopping bags, one in each hand.[4] As the tanks came to a stop, the man gestured towards the tanks with his bags. In response, the lead tank attempted to drive around the man, but the man repeatedly stepped into the path of the tank in a show of nonviolent action.[5] After repeatedly attempting to go around rather than crush the man, the lead tank stopped its engines, and the armored vehicles behind it seemed to follow suit. There was a short pause with the man and the tanks having reached a quiet, still impasse.

Having successfully brought the column to a halt, the man climbed onto the hull of the buttoned-up lead tank and, after briefly stopping at the driver's hatch, appeared in video footage of the incident to call into various ports in the tank's turret. He then climbed atop the turret and seemed to have a short conversation with a crew member at the gunner's hatch. After ending the conversation, the man descended from the tank. The tank commander briefly emerged from his hatch, and the tanks restarted their engines, ready to continue on. At that point, the man, who was still standing within a meter or two from the side of the lead tank, leapt in front of the vehicle once again and quickly reestablished the man–tank standoff.

Video footage shows that two figures in blue attire then pulled the man away and disappeared with him into a nearby crowd, and the tanks continued on their way.[5] Eyewitnesses disagree with each other about the identity of the people who pulled him aside. Charlie Cole (there for Newsweek) believes it was the PSB (Public Security Bureau) that pulled him away,[6] while Jan Wong (there for The Globe and Mail) believes that the men who pulled him away were only concerned local civilians. In April 1998, Time included the "Unknown Rebel" in a feature titled Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.

 

[scotty123]

The guy in the background walking towards the tanks had some serious balls, I wonder what happened to him.

Its another angle of this:

Tiananmean Square

Should have put that in the original post really

What did happen to that guy?

The Chinese Communist party say they have never been able to trace him but it is widely believed he was executed a few months after the incident along with the tank commander for not running him down!

 

[scotty123]

In case anyone is interested -


The incident took place near Tiananmen on Chang'an Avenue, which runs east-west along the north end of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, on June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese government's violent crackdown on the Tiananmen protests. The man stood in the middle of the wide avenue, directly in the path of a column of approaching Type 59 tanks. He wore a white shirt and black pants, and held two shopping bags, one in each hand.[4] As the tanks came to a stop, the man gestured towards the tanks with his bags. In response, the lead tank attempted to drive around the man, but the man repeatedly stepped into the path of the tank in a show of nonviolent action.[5] After repeatedly attempting to go around rather than crush the man, the lead tank stopped its engines, and the armored vehicles behind it seemed to follow suit. There was a short pause with the man and the tanks having reached a quiet, still impasse.

Having successfully brought the column to a halt, the man climbed onto the hull of the buttoned-up lead tank and, after briefly stopping at the driver's hatch, appeared in video footage of the incident to call into various ports in the tank's turret. He then climbed atop the turret and seemed to have a short conversation with a crew member at the gunner's hatch. After ending the conversation, the man descended from the tank. The tank commander briefly emerged from his hatch, and the tanks restarted their engines, ready to continue on. At that point, the man, who was still standing within a meter or two from the side of the lead tank, leapt in front of the vehicle once again and quickly reestablished the man–tank standoff.

Video footage shows that two figures in blue attire then pulled the man away and disappeared with him into a nearby crowd, and the tanks continued on their way.[5] Eyewitnesses disagree with each other about the identity of the people who pulled him aside. Charlie Cole (there for Newsweek) believes it was the PSB (Public Security Bureau) that pulled him away,[6] while Jan Wong (there for The Globe and Mail) believes that the men who pulled him away were only concerned local civilians. In April 1998, Time included the "Unknown Rebel" in a feature titled Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.

The ''unknown rebel'' was widely believed to be a 19 year old student Wang Weilin

 

[blueunit]

No full story, but allegedly two childhood friends meet each other again on opposite sides of a protest

Dennis Quaid looks pissed off.

German POWs watching footage of the concentration camps.

Poverty in the US

taken 20 minutes after the bombing of Nagasaki

Samurai circa 1860

 

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

Australian POW about to be beheaded by Japanese soldier in WW2

Is it an Australian or one of the American flyers shot down and captured after the Doolittle raid?
I have seen this photo in many places and it has different interpretations to who it is

I read a book once in my local library, which is where I first saw the picture, and the image has stuck with me over twenty years. The caption in the book said he was Australian, that's all I know.

There is no way of dating the picture though, the Doolittle raid took place in 1942..

Interesting documentaries here:-

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR6Z_Xtvp2I[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DTkuWtbviU[/youtube]

 

[BillyBonds]

 

[dazdon]

That looks like the worst stag do ever!