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Is it illegal to have a tank in your basement?
They didn't say it was being confiscated; maybe it's just being removed to a museum or something.
/edit: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-57965260
https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-senior-wwii-nazi-tank-in-basement-fined-293000-2021-8?op=1
Nvm; violating Germanys War Weapons Control Act and fined $293k. Mostly because he had ammo, artillery, a torpedo, and the weapons were considered functional.
Required to donate/sell them within 2 years.
That had me laughing out loud.
It's funny from here, but when your neighbor has multiple hundreds of kilos of 80-year old high-explosive in his house, it becomes somewhat less amusing.
Obviously it's a horrible situation to be in.
But Mel Books put it best. "Tragedy is when I get a papercut on my pinkie. Comedy is when you fall into a well and die."
You're making it really fuckin' hard for me to not make a "yo' momma" joke, bro.
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If you're not a Nazi, but he was, so fuck him.
I think the tank in combination of the assault rifles and live ammo is what got him the huge fine: ""As well as the tank and cannon, he was also in possession of a torpedo, a mortar, 70 assault rifles and over 2,000 rounds of ammunition.""