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Retired AF Guy · 23 Apr 2015

kratz said:
CBC.ca

Quote

Quebec girl told to stop reading by school bus driver

Sarah Auger, 8, enjoyed reading to and from school, until the bus driver said it was dangerous

Abel complained to the school board, which deferred to the driver, saying the person who drives the bus is allowed to make the rules.

"The responsibility of a school bus driver is to transport students safely," said Mario Champagne, general secretary and director of communications for the Hautes-Rivière school board.

Another bureaucrat that doesn't have the guts to make a decision and passes the buck,

cupper · 29 Apr 2015

cupper said:
You know, if paranoid conspiracy theorists yell long and loud enough, it becomes a self fulfilling prophesy, and the government puts them on the watch list. :nod:

Conspiracy Theorists Think an Army Training Exercise Will Bring Martial Law to the US This Summer

https://news.vice.com/article/conspiracy-theorists-think-an-army-training-exercise-will-bring-martial-law-to-the-us-this-summer

:facepalm:

And it just doesn't stop.

Paranoia catches Abbott’s attention: Gov orders Texas guard to monitor military exercises over fears of federal takeover

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/04/paranoia-catches-abbott-attention-gov-orders-texas-guard-to-monitor-military-exercises-over-fears-of-federal-takeover.html/

Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Guard to monitor federal military exercises in Texas after some citizens have lit up the Internet saying the maneuvers are actually the prelude to martial law.

The operation causing rampant suspicions is a new kind of exercise involving elite teams such as the SEALs and Green Berets from four military branches training over several states from July 15 to Sept. 15

Called Jade Helm 15, the exercise is one of the largest training operations done by the military in response to what it calls the evolving nature of warfare. About 1,200 special operations personnel will be involved and move covertly among the public. They will use military equipment to travel between seven Southwestern states from Texas to California.

On Monday, command spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Lastoria attended a Bastrop County Commissioners Court meeting to answer community questions and was met with hostile fire. Lastoria, in response to some of the questions from the 150 who attended, sought to dispel fears that foreign fighters from the Islamic State were being brought in or that Texans’ guns would be confiscated, according to a report in the Austin American-Statesman.

He was forced to rebut that martial law was underfoot and said misinformation has been spread by those with a “personal agenda.”

“You may have issues with the administration. So be it. But this institution right here has been with you for over 200 years,” he was quoted as saying. “I’ve worn this uniform across five different administrations for 27 years.”

Radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been sending out warnings for weeks regarding the exercise, saying it is the U.S. military positioning itself to take over the states and declare martial law.

Abbott apparently has heard the concern and ordered the Guard to monitor the training and U.S. military personnel.

“To address concerns of Texas citizens and ensure that Texas communities remain safe, secure and informed about military procedures occurring in their vicinity, I am directing the TExas State Guard to monitor Operation Jade Helm 15,” Abbott wrote in his letter to the commander of the Texas Guard.

Abbott hedged the suspicion inherent in his message, saying, “The action I take today comes with the recognition of Texas’ long history of supporting our military forces.”

jollyjacktar · 29 Apr 2015

It seems as if Texas is continuing the practice of electing less than sterling thinkers as Gov. Garbage in/garbage out. :nod:

cupper · 4 May 2015

This pretty much sums up the whole situation. But seriously - WTF is wrong with Texas?

Best quote ever: Paranoia is a mental illness, not a super power.

Jade Helm: The Insanity that Ate Texas

http://www.stonekettle.com/2015/05/jade-helm-insanity-that-ate-texas.html

Jade Helm.

Martial Law.

FEMA Death Camps.

Oh, it’s coming, Folks. It’s a comin’.

This is it. This is the big one. Obama is about to make his move. Martial law, you betcha, FEMA death camps and secret tunnels under Wal-Mart. Oh they warned us, they did, the powdered wig wearing Patriots of the Tea Party, they warned us. Grab the wimen’ folk, load yer guns, hoist the Confederate Battle Flag! To the bunkers! To the bunkers!

"Just because you're paranoid," said Ted Cruz, "doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Right.

And just because you have the word "Senator" in front of your name doesn't mean you're sane, rational, qualified to run the country, or have an IQ higher than that of a sea cucumber.

Seriously, somebody help me out here: what the fuck happened to Texas?

What the f**k happened to Texas?

There’s just no polite, no non-profane way to ask. What. The. F**k. Happened to Texas?

Is it the heat? Is it the water? Did somebody spike the punch bowl with psychotropic drugs? Is it inbreeding? It is, isn’t it?

The entire state has gone bonkers.

The Governor of Texas has mobilized his own personal army and Ted Cruz is demanding answers from the Pentagon.

Because, you know, if there really was a secret plot, the generals would tell him. What? Senator Cruz has asked about our super secret nefarious plot to invade our own country and force Texans into hidden underground FEMA centers where they’ll be disarmed and gay married to Muslims? Drat! He’s on to us! Then they twirl their Snidely Whiplash moustaches, Curses! Foiled again by that brave Canadian cartoon hero, Dudley Cruz.

Let’s say this really was a thing.

Sure, just for the sake of argument, let’s say Obama really is planning on herding Texans into FEMA death camps disguised as Wal-Marts.

Why would he need the army?

Think about it. Why would you need some secret plot to get Texans into a Wal-Mart?

Announce a Veterans Day sale with 50% off all ammunition, Duck Dynasty camouflage, and frozen chicken nuggets, unlock the doors, and step the hell out of the way before you get trampled.

Honestly, where does the Army come in?

It has finally come down to this.

This, right here, this is just how low the once great party of Lincoln has sunk.

This right here, this drooling lunacy, this mental illness, is the state of America. This is what talk radio and reality TV and Budweiser fueled NASCAR has done to the gene pool.

This, right here.

I've been putting it off, talking about Jade Helm, because it's just so stupid, just so utterly f**king stupid even for the twitching under-medicated paranoia that passes for Republicans nowadays. But now that Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas Senator Ted Cruz have weighed in on the side of booger eating stupidity, I see I can’t evade it any longer.

Very well.

Let me be blunt, or blunter than I’ve already been: anybody, anybody, who believes President Obama is about to send the United Nations to invade Texas, declare martial law, and herd Texans into FEMA Death Camps Of Death cleverly hidden in a secret network of continent spanning tunnels linking Wal-Marts across the nation, anybody who believes this ridiculous howling bullshit in any way whatsoever should be darted with powerful tranquilizers, netted from black helicopters, pumped full of happy juice before they start eating their own feces, and installed in a dark padded cell where the most dangerous thing they encounter each day is a small plastic cup of institutional butterscotch pudding pushed through a small opening in the bottom of the door with a stick.

Yeah, but, but, but, the Army, Obama, Texas, Jade Helm!

Shut up. Take your medication, in fact double up on it, and just shut the f**k up.

Just, shut up.

A blubbering paranoid on Facebook managed to get all the drool summed up in one place. My response to her is as follows (edited and expanded):

"How do you explain the Jade Helm law?"

Easy: THERE'S NO SUCH THING.

There is no, repeat no, "Jade Helm Law."

"JADE HELM 15" is standard domestic exercise, same as dozens of others, same as any that have been going on since the country was founded.

Look, maybe you haven't noticed, but we in the military are often called upon to operate in foreign lands, particularly in urban and suburban environments. How in the hell do you think we train for that? What? You think it’s just f**king magic? We get by on our charm and wholesome American looks? Do you have any idea what it takes to do what we do? Coordination, communication, navigation, talking to civilians, security, just finding your way around in a strange city, and a thousand other mundane things you've never thought of. How in the hell do you think we learn that?

You can't exactly send troops to Tehran to practice you know – well, you can, but it’s bound to get you talked about, especially that part involving, you know, military invasion of a foreign country. So we do it here, in our country, where we can concentrate on the skills necessary without being shot at - except given the rise in paranoid droolers here at home, maybe it would be easier to do it in a hostile foreign land. These days, Baghdad is far more sane and friendly than whatever the fuck is going on down there in Texas.

Honest to God, what the hell is wrong with you people?

We do this all of the time. This is what we do when conservatives don’t have us invading other countries. We practice. We practice navigation of navy ships up the coasts of our nation. We practice landing on the beaches of San Diego. The Air Force practices long range bombing runs across thousands of miles of US territory. The deserts of the American Southwest make a good facsimile of Middle Eastern conditions, and it’s a whole lot better to learn how to use a map and compass and a GPS unit there than when you’re trying to find your way out of the Swat Valley. The National Guard practices convoys on US highways – you must have seen those military vehicles out there on the road, what did you think they were doing? Driving shitty lowest bidder trucks two hundred miles for fun?

Yeah, but what about foreign troops on US soil? What about that? Huh? Huh?

What about it?

Listen, how do you think we learn to work together if we never practice together? If the first time we try to work with Belgian troops, or Senegalese, or Chinese, is when we're, oh, you know, TRYING TO F**KING FEED PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RUINS LEFT BY A NEPALESE EARTHQUAKE? I'm just saying here, you know, for example.

How is it you expect us to work with the Mexican army to reduce drug trafficking, again for example, if we never train together? If we can’t even talk to each other? If we don’t even know what goddamned frequencies each other’s radios are on? If we can’t tell a Mexican General from a private? Do you know? Can you read Mexican Army Rank insignia? Can you?

How do you think the ships of a dozen nations would be able to sail together if they didn't practice? Do you have any idea what it takes to form a fleet and sail in close proximity to each other? To navigate across thousands of miles of open ocean, to patrol coastal waters, to coordinate resupply and personnel transfers and communication and a million other things necessary to, oh, you know, hunt down pirates together in the Indian Ocean, or enforce UN sanctions against Iran in the Arabian Gulf, or search for a missing Japanese sailboat lost in the Pacific? Do you? Do you have any idea what that takes? When’s the last time you worked with the Chinese navy doing SAR for a missing Malaysian airliner in the South China Sea? Well? No, no, don’t be shy, step right up and tell us how to do it, after all you’re no doubt an expert on the Peoples Liberation Army Navy – what’s that? You didn’t even know China’s Navy was part of the Army? Funny, you being such a f**king expert on military exercises and all, I mean.

How do you think the air forces of a dozen different countries with different requirements and different procedures and different equipment and different communication protocols and different languages are able to work together, again for, oh, say, delivering supplies to a disaster zone, if they never talk to each other? If they don’t practice. Do you have any idea what that takes? Any at all? Or are you too busy imagining secret tunnels under Wal-Mart?

Here's another example: every year US troops and foreign forces from dozens of nations gather here in Alaska for NORTHERN EDGE where they work together and practice terrifying liberty destroying horrors such as learning to cross country ski in full military gear with hundred pound backpacks - you know, just in case some conservative jerkoff sends them to invade the snowy mountains of Afghanistan.

And we've done all of this literally for centuries.

"People are stupid and giving the government all the room they need to enact whatever laws they want to."

While I agree that the commenter is an object example of the first three words of that ridiculous sentence, the rest of it is provably wrong. And here's an idea, if you don't like the laws being passed, try electing people that aren't insane paranoids for a change.

America is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people - if you don't like the government, you've got nobody to blame but yourself. Stop acting like a mental defective and grow the hell up.

"While martial law is usually declared under a state of emergency, things are changing and there may come a day when that isn't the case."

May come to.

May.

Right. And the world may be destroyed by impact with the giant invisible planet Nibiru or conquered by naked purple lizard people from the alternate dimension of Crazyf**kistan.

What's next, you gonna tell me about the bogeyman hiding in your closet?

If you think the president can just wave his big Magic Negro Ray of Chocolate Mojo and declare martial law, you really don't understand how your government works - but then again that's not even a little bit surprising given a sitting US senator such as Ted Cruz apparently doesn't understand how the very government he is part of works either.

"Call it what you want, but this is reality now."

No. No it's not.

This is not reality.

It's a paranoid delusion completely divorced from reality and based on a faulty premise manufactured whole cloth by conspiracy mongers such as Alex Jones who make tidy livings preying on gullible mental patients.

"I do my own research."

That's what the commenter said, I do my own research. That’s how she knew the pending invasion of Texas was for reals, man, for reals.

I do my own research.

No. NO. Just … no.

No you don't.

What this crazy little nutter is doing is not research.

She doesn’t even know what that word actually means. Research is a structured formal process complete with checks and balances, multiple points of verification, experimentation, and fault testing. We actually teach classes in research. What these loons are doing is not, repeat not, research.

What it is is masturbation.

It makes them feel good but it's not the kind of thing anybody should be doing in public and you really shouldn't confuse it for actual intimacy.

What they are doing is nothing more than jerking off to conspiracy porn.

Every single part of this idiotic conspiracy theory is taken directly from "alternative news." It's self-reinforcing paranoid gibberish, like mental patients licking butterscotch pudding off of each other, and nothing more.

Now, listen to me and listen good:

This stupid shit isn't worth my time.

It's not worth your time.

It’s not worth any rational person’s time.

It’s certainly not worth a state Governor’s time, or a Senator, both of whom should have demonstrated basic leadership by telling their booger eating constituents to sit down and shut. the. f**k. UP.

You all should have grown out of this silly horseshit around about the time you stopped having your daddy check under your bed for monsters.

Stop it. Stop it right now.

If you can’t, then find an adult: have them slap you across the face, HARD, hard enough to knock out what few rotten teeth you have remaining in your pointy head. Have them slap the drool out of you. Have them keep smacking you up side your goddamned head until they knock some fucking sense into you.

This entire thing is a spook story manufactured whole cloth by people who make money, gobs and gobs of money, by preying on the simpletons and the fearful.

If you believe in any of this crap, then you are either mentally ill OR you are so goddamned stupid you shouldn't be allowed any social interaction of any kind without a court appointed keeper.

Stop it. Stop it right now.

"Just because you're paranoid," said Ted Cruz, "doesn't mean they're not out to get you."

Dude, they’re out to get you because you’re paranoid.

Paranoia is a mental illness, not a super power.

And only a raving lunatic would think otherwise.

CougarKing · 5 May 2015

Shanghaiist

Drunk Beijing man steals horse from race track to get home

A man in Beijing who threw back one too many drinks at a horse racing track on May 3 found it in his best interest to ditch his car and instead take one of the majestic creatures for a ride home, a journey that ended up taking him three hours.
The man, surnamed Wang, said that he and his friends had left the racecourse and were intoxicated when he decided to leave his car and pull one of the black horses from its stables. He grabbed some reins and took off on horseback towards home, which was around 20km away.

(...SNIPPED)

George Wallace · 19 May 2015

This following Waco, makes you wonder if there is a madness now creeping into society.

Reproduced under the Fair Dealings provisions of the Copyright Act.

Bicyclist gunned down near Windsor

Robert Garrison, KUSA 6:17 a.m. MDT May 19, 2015

Police could not say if the shooting was random or if the town worker was targeted.

WINDSOR - Windsor Police are looking for a killer who gunned down a bicyclist on a rural Weld County road near Windsor Monday morning.

Windsor Police Lt. Richard Higuera said the bicyclist, later identified as 48-year-old John Jacoby, was found by a passing motorist around 10 a.m. It's unknown how long Jacoby had been lying in the road.

Police say Jacoby was shot twice while riding his bike northbound on Weld County Road 15 near the intersection at Weld County Road 72. Higuera says first responders initially thought Jacoby was the victim of a hit-and-run crash, but they soon discovered he had been shot.

Jacoby worked for the Town of Windsor. He was a part-time park caretaker.

Police could not say if the shooting was random or if Jacoby was targeted. Lt. Rich Higuera said police aren't releasing any evidence at this time.

Higuera said they are actively searching for a suspect and are exploring all possibilities, including whether the murder is related to the April shooting of the 20-year-old Milliken woman in the neck. She survived the apparent random shooting while traveling on Interstate 25 near Windsor.

Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said Tuesday morning:

"At this point, we do not know if there is any tie between the traffic murder being investigated by the Windsor Police and the shooting of a motorist in Larimer County last month. We have been and remain in communication with the Windsor Police as their investigation evolves."

Even though the shooter is on the loose, Higuera said the public shouldn't be afraid, only aware and cautious. As for cyclists, he said they have more to worry about with distracted drivers.

Jacoby was a long-time Windsor resident and rode his bike every day, Higuera said. He left behind a family, although Higuera was not sure how many children Jacoby had.

The last homicide in Windsor was eight years ago.

The Fort Collins Coloradoan, Associated Press contributed to this report.

(KUSA-TV © 2015 Multimedia Holdings Corporation with The Associated Press)

More on LINK including news video.

[Note: This is Windsor, Colorado.]

George Wallace · 1 Jun 2015

Sort of like the people who don't vote in an election complaining about the efforts of those elected to do their jobs, but not the way that they (non-voters) want things done:

LINK

Reproduced under the Fair Dealings provisions of the Copyright Act.

Royal succession law to be contested in Quebec court

CTV News
Stephanie Marin , The Canadian Press
Published Sunday, May 31, 2015 6:15PM EDT
Last Updated Sunday, May 31, 2015 7:30PM EDT

MONTREAL -- The birth of Prince George before his sister Charlotte averted the need for a major change in British tradition.

But the recent law that changed the rules of royal succession will be challenged in Quebec court beginning Monday, and could have political consequences in Canada.

The challenge could even force Ottawa to undertake a round of constitutional negotiations, say the lawyers behind the suit.

In 2011 -- while the world wondered if the firstborn of royal couple William and Kate would be a boy or a girl -- the leaders of the 16 Commonwealth countries agreed to change the succession rules to allow a girl, if she was the eldest, to take the throne.

Before the change, she would have been passed over in favour of her brother.

The Harper government implemented the change by a simple federal law in 2013.

According to Patrick Taillon and Genevieve Motard, law professors at the University of Laval, this was a change to Canada's constitution that should have required the consent of the provinces, which the prime minister never sought.

Now, Taillon and Motard are aiming to have the law on royal succession declared unconstitutional.

The professors have the support of Quebec's Attorney General and -- improbably -- a monarchist league, the Canadian Royal Heritage Trust.

The government argues that the modification made by the British Parliament concerning the monarchy applies automatically under Canadian law -- Ottawa had only to pass a law giving "assent," with no need for a constitutional change.

Those who are contesting the law say the British Parliament lost its right to legislate for Canada with the repatriation of the Constitution in 1982.

In an interview, Taillon said the intention of the suit is primarily "so that the Canadian Constitution is respected by the federal government."

If the law is invalidated by the court, the federal government will be faced with a choice: refuse to touch the Constitution and default on Canada's obligations to the Commonwealth, or open the Pandora's box of constitutional negotiations, where the provinces could bring their demands to the table.

According to Taillon, if the law is invalidated it could also change Quebec's balance of power on the constitutional front.

Because of obligations to the Commonwealth, the federal government would have no choice but to listen to provincial demands, unlike in the past when he says Harper abandoned Senate reform rather than seek the approval of the provinces.

"In this case, he can't say 'we won't act' because he's involved with the other countries," Taillon said, while admitting that the international consequences of doing so might not be more severe than when Canada withdrew from the Kyoto protocol.

He says the group has "nothing against the essence of the reform," referring to changing the law to allow a woman to inherit the crown.

The case is expected to last two weeks in Quebec Superior Court.

This should prove interesting. I am sure many Constitutional Lawyers will now be involved in Constitutional Debate among a group that is not likely to ever reach agreement to the same extent that the original framers of the Constitution were able to meet.

211RadOp · 14 Jun 2015

Don't cut your lawn in Vaudreuil-Dorion after 1600 on a weekend or holiday.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=635065&playlistId=1.2421527&binId=1.810401&playlistPageNum=1&binPageNum=1

tomahawk6 · 15 Jun 2015

Passengers en rote from Chicago to London were diverted to Goose Bay.The 200 passengers stayed in barracks and the flight crew in a hotel.I was surprised that Goose Bay even had a hotel. ;D

https://gma.yahoo.com/passengers-aboard-diverted-united-airlines-flight-spend-night-134628749--abc-news-topstories.html#

The Bread Guy · 16 Jun 2015

Not QUITE "Capricorn One", but still ....

An international probe should be launched into various murky details surrounding the U.S. moon landings between 1969 and 1972, Russia's Investigative Committee spokesman said Tuesday.

Vladimir Markin penned a column for the Izvestia newspaper arguing that U.S. authorities had crossed a line by launching a large-scale corruption probe targeting nine FIFA officials. The scandal surrounding the case prompted the June 2 resignation of longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter, and sparked a heated debate about Russia's role as host of the 2018 World Cup.

Venting his frustration with what he viewed as "U.S. prosecutors having declared themselves the supreme arbiters of international football affairs," Markin proposed that international investigators could likewise examine some of the murkier elements of America's past.

An international investigation could help solve the mystery of the disappearance of film footage from the original moon landing in 1969, or explain where the nearly 400 kilograms of lunar rock reportedly obtained during several such missions between 1969 and 1972 have been spirited away to, Markin suggested.

"We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific — or perhaps cultural — artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened," Markin wrote ....

The Bread Guy · 2 Jul 2015

Dear American Think Tank and former American diplomat serving in Canada:

Canada has F-18's, not F-16's as mentioned in paragraph 3 of this paper analyzing whazzup in Canadian politics.

Kthxbye

George Wallace · 3 Jul 2015

Now here is a really good one (German links at bottom):

(Link in Title)

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Meanwhile in Germany...

Friday, 3 July 2015

Hello Warriors,

woke up with my email flooded with this, thanks everyone.

In Kiel, northern Germany, police and army have seized from an 78 year old pensioner's house the following items: Panther Tank, 8.8-centimeter AA gun (or Flakgeschütz), a torpedo and some rifles and machineguns.

The mayor, Alexander Orth is not surprised by the find: "He was chugging around in that thing during the snow catastrophe in 1978" (*)

It took 9 hours for the almost 20 soldiers to carefully remove everything without damaging the house, the tank in particular was in a subterranean hall which apparently consisted of several levels (homemade bunker?). They were taken to Putlos, a military training area, while a investigation takes course on whether the pensioner was breaching the War Weapons Control Act or not.

The pensioner claims that the tank and all the other weapons were demilitarized (with documents proving so).
His lawyer wants to take legal action against the confiscation and also call for damages for his client. "I assume that the tank has been damaged in the action." The same applies to the private road in front of the Villa.

One of you, Marco G. made me giggle in his email, he called this a German typical conversation:
"Honey, do we have more beer?"
"Yes, downstairs, behind the tank. Don't stumble over the torpedo, and please don't smoke beneath the V2 rocket...."

(*)This reminds me when not long ago found my grandfather driving one of the old Zundapps he restored while fully 70's geared on our family property trough corn and lettuce fields like a lunatic while his radio screamed AC/DC. My apple didn't fell far from the tree.

Sources:
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/heikendorf-bei-kiel-panzer-flak-und-waffen-aus-keller-geborgen-a-1041868.html

http://www.thelocal.de/20150702/police-find-wwii-tank-hidden-in-cellar

War Weapons Control Act: http://www.facing-finance.org/en/database/norms-and-standards/war-weapons-control-act/

LINK to blog (with photos).

Police confiscate WW2 tank hidden in cellar

THE LOCAL.de
Germany's news in English
Published: 02 Jul 2015 16:10 GMT+02:00
Updated: 03 Jul 2015 07:10 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.

The Kiel prosecutor would not give The Local any details as to the specifics of the historical arsenal when contacted.

But a police spokesperson informed The Local that a torpedo had been removed from the building on Wednesday. He could not confirm whether it was a Second World War model.

He also said that by Thursday afternoon they had still not managed to remove the 1943-vintage Panther, despite the Bundeswehr (German army) sending modern recovery tanks of its own - designed to haul damaged battle tanks off the field - to help remove it.

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.

Jörg Luyken (joerg.luyken@thelocal.com)

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