{"id":27502,"date":"2021-01-15T06:13:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27502"},"modified":"2021-01-15T07:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T13:39:41","slug":"in-florida-you-cannot-overlook-the-possibility-that-someone-in-town-might-have-a-lightly-armored-reconnaissance-vehicle-that-looks-like-a-tank-and-gives-the-british-press-the-vapors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/15\/in-florida-you-cannot-overlook-the-possibility-that-someone-in-town-might-have-a-lightly-armored-reconnaissance-vehicle-that-looks-like-a-tank-and-gives-the-british-press-the-vapors\/","title":{"rendered":"In Florida, You Cannot Overlook The Possibility That Someone In Town Might Have a Lightly Armored Reconnaissance Vehicle That Looks Like A Tank And Gives The Press The Vapors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maniac drives tank around neighbourhood scaring neighbours in disturbing footage<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In many parts of the US, it\u2019s commonplace to see people carrying guns in the streets.<\/p>\n

But even the unflappable people of Florida draw the line at a tank.<\/p>\n

The apparently street-legal armoured vehicle is owned by a man living in the sleepy gated community of Old Cutler Road., in Palmetto Bay, a little way down the coast from Miami.<\/p>\n

The shocked residents complaining that the tracked beast that\u2019s been smashing up their kerbs is a \u201cmilitary-style\u201d tank \u2013 to avoid any confusion with the perfectly-normal civilian-style tanks we\u2019re all used to seeing on our roads.<\/p>\n

Amateur video taken of the vehicle suggests it could be a current FV107 Scimitar or possibly an FV101 Scorpion, a light armoured reconnaissance vehicle that saw service with the British Army through the 70s and 80s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It looks like the British press has typed up a local (Florida) television station’s minute-long segment on the story. Basically, the television story is some phone footage of the vehicle out on the road, a couple seconds talking about the tank, allegations that it’s destroying curbs (kerbs, as the British say), and a shot of the television report buzzing the intercom of the walled estate asking to talk to someone about the “tank.”<\/p>\n

The British tabloid story extends it by calling the driver a “maniac” (unsupported) and identifying the vehicle not as a tank but a British scout vehicle (to women, apparently, all military vehicles with guns look like tanks<\/a>, which is why when you’re picking you’re Civil War II fantasy team, you should probably leave the anti-armor to the boys, he said, incrementing the variable in the algorithm to his eventual deplatforming with a +1).<\/p>\n

I mean, come on now. Let the guy drive his street-legal British scout vehicle in peace.<\/p>\n

Here in Missouri, I have seen a number of pieces of post-military equipment out on the roads, generally on the way to an event or parade or perhaps on loan on loan for small-budget local movie shoots<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is America, [Union] Jack. There’s a rifle behind every blade of grass, and there just might be a privately owned armored vehicle behind every wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maniac drives tank around neighbourhood scaring neighbours in disturbing footage: In many parts of the US, it\u2019s commonplace to see people carrying guns in the streets. But even the unflappable people of Florida draw the line at a tank. The apparently street-legal armoured vehicle is owned by a man living in the sleepy gated community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27505,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27502\/revisions\/27505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}