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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago

Oh, now THIS is against the law? What next??

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The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 5 months ago
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    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.

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      torpedo,

      That had me laughing out loud.

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        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.

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          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.”

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        deleted by creator

        • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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          You’re making it really fuckin’ hard for me to not make a “yo’ momma” joke, bro.

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      T Y R A N N Y

      If you’re not a Nazi, but he was, so fuck him.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      Man, Germany has to be the fun police.

      I’d love some WW2 equipment and munitions.

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