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Nickdfresh
02-28-2008, 06:27 PM
Museum Returns Tank to Schwarzenegger
Feb. 28, 2008, 1:32 PM EST

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says he asked an Ohio museum to return his Austrian army tank because he was concerned about the upkeep and wants to offer rides to schoolchildren.

Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, said he plans to offer the rides to inner-city children in the Los Angeles area as a reward for staying in school, avoiding drugs and working hard.

Warren Motts, founder and director of Motts Military Museum, said Schwarzenegger acquired the M47 American-made tank from the Austrian government and had it shipped to Florida. He transported it to a Columbus, Ohio, shopping mall in 1999 when he opened a Planet Hollywood there...
Cont'd (http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=303277&GT1=7701)

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Well, it probably gets better gas mileage than his Hummers.:)

Rising Sun*
02-28-2008, 08:07 PM
I know there's a push in some quarters to respond to school massacres by allowing students to carry concealed, but isn't a tank going a bit far?:D

Chevan
02-29-2008, 12:17 AM
Schwarzenegger, a native of Austria, said he plans to offer the rides to inner-city children in the Los Angeles area as a reward for staying in school, avoiding drugs and working hard.
One more crazy sensless idea of Terminator?:)
How is he going to prevent the children from drugs with Tank?
Shoot the school's drug sellers with gun?
How could the Mister World Steroid ( the self-moving advertising of the Drugs, who wrote in his memours-book that he like to smoke the marijuana in evening after the training ) could care about using drugs by children.;)

Major Walter Schmidt
03-05-2008, 10:02 PM
Repention maybe.