German pensioner is fined £200,000 for keeping a WWII TANK and an anti-aircraft cannon among huge arsenal in his houseHe kept the Panzer and the 88mm flak gun inside a basement under his home

UK Daily Mail ^ | 8/4/2021 | Ross Ibbetson

[fruser1]

Flick told the judge he bought the tank as scrap in Britain in 1977, and had even paid the Bundeswehr £25,000 to repair the engine.

But he agreed to plead guilty to breaching the War Weapons Control Act and was handed a 14-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay 250,000 euros (£213,000).

Although the pensioner is facing a colossal fine, the judge was swayed not to confiscate the tank or the AA gun, but ordered that they must be sold within the next two years.

[fruser1]

Panzer for sale.

[Enterprise]

No need to send him to prison. Sell the items and apply the proceedings against his fine.

[hadaclueonce]

Bid for the 88.

[Jonty30]

I would have decommissioned all the weaponry, but they shouldn’t take away his property.

[Ezekiel]

Maybe the guy’s a Republican.

[faithhopecharity]

well, as Biden told us, people can’t hope to defend themselves against his federal administration with only AK-47’s. SO, yes, a Panzer tank in the basement sounds like a good idea?
Thank you Mr. Biden for the good advice about your regime

[broken_clock]

Nanny state jerks.

[dljordan]

Bureaucrats have to have their money.

[Gene Eric]

Two years to get the museum going.

[Old Yeller]

Prolly took two of them to carry that Panzer down the stairs.

[Jim Noble]

Did he have the ammo?

[AndyTheBear]

Since he has to sell, they can then fine the poor schmuck that buys them.

[lurk]

Euros are not free.

They could have disabled the actions of these guns and let the man keep them. But no, they have to steal them.

[Bigg Red]

Mark

[shotgun]

[immadashell]

The crime here, apparently, is possession, not use.

[SpaceBar]

Beautiful specimen. “Always garaged”.

[painter]

That looks like a Panther 5! There is only just a few left. That Tank is worth Millions especially since it runs.

[joshua c]

Freepers lets pool our funds

i have a very big basement

[hecticskeptic]

Certainly a conversation piece to have in the basement when the boys are over for a card game.

"Police stumbled on the huge haul in 2015 when carrying out a search for Nazi-era bronze sculptures which reportedly decorated his back garden.

At the time the local mayor, Alexander Orth, had told the local paper of the tank: 'He was chugging around in that thing during the snow disaster in 1978.'

Rated out by the mayor!