r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CurlyWurly61 • May 12 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Such terrible advertisement

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I mean... at a glance its like WOAH 4 can dine for $9.99....

Until you are at the cash and they say " that'll be $45.15"

HUH??

"Oh sorry sir... it feeds 4... 4 people pay $9.99"

Gtfooo

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u/FormerWorker125 May 12 '26

It wasn't an f16, it was a harrier. 

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u/Stuck_in_my_TV May 12 '26

Potato-po-tah-to. It’s still unlikely a company like Pepsi could legally purchase a military jet to give away to a private citizen who doesn’t have a pilots license or security clearance.

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u/NonGeneriComplaint May 12 '26

Its actually legal to privately own one

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u/Actual-Force-1621 May 12 '26

SafeAndLegalThrills

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u/LilDingalang May 12 '26

Yeah but you can’t just have it

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u/protostar71 May 12 '26

Harriers are like ducks, you can just wander down to your local marine base and pick one up for free, nobodies stopping you.

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u/NightGod May 15 '26

Well, maybe a few people, if you're spotted.

Or can't get off radar fast enough

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u/Prcrstntr May 13 '26

SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED

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u/1001101001010111 May 12 '26

Getting permission to take off is another story. Let alone the maintenance and fuel cost.

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u/SEA_griffondeur May 13 '26

not the AV-8B as the only owner didn't want to sell it

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u/Throwawayhrjrbdh May 12 '26

Not that’s perfectly fine. There’s a lot of demilitarized planes and other equipment in private hands.

At a certain point it would effectively become a museum piece because a lot of the times core avionics must be removed as well. However there is some cases of demilitarized planes where it’s just guns removed/disabled, targeting equipment and such while still being flyable

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u/Facosa99 May 12 '26

Mmm you are right. They could have probably given him an empty fuselaje from a scrapyard ("We promised you a harrier. We never said it would be fly-able") and have saved themselves a lot of legal headaches

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u/couldbemage May 12 '26

Security rules are why most privately owned fighter jets in the US are Russian jets. Apparently the Soviet going out of business sale was wild.

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u/FormerWorker125 May 12 '26

Crazy take saying an f16 is anything at all like a harrier. Unreal reddit. Disgusting really.

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u/jynxremoving May 13 '26

I love your autism & I love you