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84-year-old fined €250,000 for keeping Nazi war machines – including tank – in basement

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Re: Weird Case

I read an account many years ago about a gentleman who had a restored, but with the guns disabled, Sherman tank, complete with rubber track covers, making it "street legal". He lived in Los Angeles. One day he decided to take it out for a drive, always driving scrupulously within the law. He noticed that he was collecting a following of police cars, but though nothing of, since he was fully licensed and driving properly.

He came to an intersection and found the three ways out blocked by lines of police cars.

A very obviously nervous cop, with his gun out and pointed at the tank, approached and told him to come out with his hands up. Which he did being very careful to show his empty hands first as he emerged from the turret.

In the end, everything go sorted out (he had all the required paperwork on hand) and proceeded on his way.

One might presume they asked him to let them know ahead of time if he planned any more road trips in his tank.

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