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Posted: 7/2/2015 3:54:55 PM EDT
Published: 02 Jul 2015 16:10 GMT+02:00
Police searched a villa in a wealthy suburb of Kiel on Wednesday and found a Second World War tank, a torpedo and other weaponry in the cellar. On Thursday they were still working on removing the tank. The raid took place in the town of Heikendorf under the instruction of Kiel prosecutors, who suspect that the villa's owner held the weaponry in illegally under a law controlling the possession of instruments of war. As well as the tank and the torpedo, several other weapons of war were found. http://www.thelocal.de/20150702/police-find-wwii-tank-hidden-in-cellar |
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Some museum is going to get a nice Panther tank...........unless they destroy it
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A-holes,
looks like whoever it was took real good care of them... |
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That tank looks like it just came off the assembly line.
They better not take a fucking torch to it either. |
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that is beautiful
did you know that after the American Revolution that our government gave the weapons that the citizens bought for our military back to them? somewhere in NJ there is a cannon in a basement |
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The mayor was not prepared to pass judgement on the villa owner, who is said to be in his 70s. "Some people like steam trains, others like tanks," he pointed out. |
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Not that it was a secret.
And for the mayor of Heikendorf, Alexander Orth, the find also came as no surprise. "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978,“ Orth told SZ |
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The Mayor sounds like a cool dude too.
"Some people like steam trains, others like tanks,“ he pointed out. View Quote |
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Heikendorf Germany
Probably a bit more touchy about the tank laws there. |
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But the villa owner's lawyer claimed that the tank could no longer fire its weapons and that he was therefore not breaking any law, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ).
And for the mayor of Heikendorf, Alexander Orth, the find also came as no surprise. "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978,“ Orth told SZ. The mayor was not prepared to pass judgement on the villa owner, who is said to be in his 70s. "Some people like steam trains, others like tanks,“ he pointed out. View Quote The mayor sounds fairly objective about this situation. I don't see the harm in a citizen owning an antique battle tank with inert weaponry. In fact, I'm quite jealous. A 70 year old tank without cannons is not much different than a large dozer, and any swinging dick can have one if he can afford it. I don't really see the difference. I can't help but wonder where he got the thing. |
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Oh that old thing, It's worth like five dollars but I'll give you ten for it.
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That Panther G is worth more than the entire German economy put together ! If the tracks are intact it will be relatively simple to get this fantastic machine up and running again. Too bad he didn't stash a Tiger 1 !
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Quoted: The mayor sounds fairly objective about this situation. I don't see the harm in a citizen owning an antique battle tank with inert weaponry. In fact, I'm quite jealous. A 70 year old tank without cannons is not much different than a large dozer, and any swinging dick can have one if he can afford it. I don't really see the difference. I can't help but wonder where he got the thing. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: But the villa owner's lawyer claimed that the tank could no longer fire its weapons and that he was therefore not breaking any law, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). And for the mayor of Heikendorf, Alexander Orth, the find also came as no surprise. "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978," Orth told SZ. The mayor was not prepared to pass judgement on the villa owner, who is said to be in his 70s. "Some people like steam trains, others like tanks," he pointed out. The mayor sounds fairly objective about this situation. I don't see the harm in a citizen owning an antique battle tank with inert weaponry. In fact, I'm quite jealous. A 70 year old tank without cannons is not much different than a large dozer, and any swinging dick can have one if he can afford it. I don't really see the difference. I can't help but wonder where he got the thing. I don't see the problem with a citizen owning a modern tank with functional weaponry. |
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Hopefully it gets put in a museum, in that condition, vs being cut up to scrap.
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From the article:
Prosecutors were alerted to the existence of the weapons by Berlin prosecutors, who searched the villa for stolen Nazi art around a month earlier, the spokesperson for the Kiel prosecutor said. But the villa owner's lawyer claimed that the tank could no longer fire its weapons and that he was therefore not breaking any law, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). And for the mayor of Heikendorf, Alexander Orth, the find also came as no surprise. "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978,“ Orth told SZ. The mayor was not prepared to pass judgement on the villa owner, who is said to be in his 70s. "Some people like steam trains, others like tanks,“ he pointed out |
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Supposedly there was a mobster in Colorado who had an M4 sherman in his basement
. His plan to escape assassins was to drive it out of the basement up a big concrete ramp Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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I'm going to go out a limb and say its going to be pushed into the ocean or cut up.
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I'm still trying to understand how the Police were able to confiscate anything when he had a tank.
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That would be the garage find of the century.
So did the guy who had it in his cellar own it or did he steal it from someone else? |
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I really,REALLY hope that finds it's way to a museum..........
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But the villa owner's lawyer claimed that the tank could no longer fire its weapons and that he was therefore not breaking any law, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ).
And for the mayor of Heikendorf, Alexander Orth, the find also came as no surprise. "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978,“ Orth told SZ. The mayor was not prepared to pass judgement on the villa owner, who is said to be in his 70s. "Some people like steam trains, others like tanks,“ he pointed out. |
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Quoted:
From the article: Prosecutors were alerted to the existence of the weapons by Berlin prosecutors, who searched the villa for stolen Nazi art around a month earlier, the spokesperson for the Kiel prosecutor said. But the villa owner's lawyer claimed that the tank could no longer fire its weapons and that he was therefore not breaking any law, reports the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). And for the mayor of Heikendorf, Alexander Orth, the find also came as no surprise. "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978,“ Orth told SZ. The mayor was not prepared to pass judgement on the villa owner, who is said to be in his 70s. "Some people like steam trains, others like tanks,“ he pointed out View Quote HAHAHAHA, fuck yes! |
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