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Whats the nost bizzare local story from your city? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 8 months ago by SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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A memory of the wildest ever story just came to me and I wanna hear from everyone.

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[–] feral_hedgehog@pawb.social 35 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Construction workers were digging foundations at a local work site and found a Soviet T-34 tank burried in the ground.

Important context:

My town is not in Russia or the former USSR.
My town is not in Europe either.
Our military doesn't even operate Soviet equipment.
My town is also not next to a border with a country who might have operated Soviet equipment when it was also not so friendly with my country.

There are some plausible theories, but to this day nobody really knows how it got here or why it got burried.

Ohh and the real kicker: the street this all happened on is named after an indigenous tank, so the news headlines all basically said "Tank found on Tank street!"

[–] Caomh_Cynbel@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Holon in Israel around 2013 right?

[–] feral_hedgehog@pawb.social 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Correct ^_^
Tank was likely captured in Egypt in the 50s or 60s, and transported to a military workshop next to the city - probably to study Soviet armour.
Years later the city was expanding, so they decided to move the base someplace else and someone decided to just burry the thing instead of transporting it again.
At least, that's the official, "logical" explanation that we got that conveniently ignores the possibility of secret Soviet space-time travel experiments!

[–] disgruntledbroad@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I like the Ancient Soviets theory better than Ancient Aliens