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You've been tanked or a story of how one attorney overtanked the neighborhood

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   People in the US are quite spoiled, not that much can surprise them these days. Dogs having Halloween photo-shoots in funny suits on the pumpkin patch and drones with a ghost figure attached to them flying around to scare the crowd - they have it all. But boy, were they really prepared for a tank on the streets? Apparently, not.     One clearly rich (and doesn't that mean really great at his job) attorney from Houston decided that a car lately isn't enough for him and bought a real tank. And not just a tank. It was a perfectly restored and still functional M4 Sherman that he got from overseas.    That grandpa has a whole fighting history of going through Europe and defeating Nazis during WW2. If it were a soldier made of flesh its chest would probably be proudly filled with lots of medals. This one in particular landed at Normandy and was used in liberating Paris after which it was taken to Berlin to finish what it started.    Wouldn't it be great for