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    Hate your commute? Drive a tank

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And -- honking -- frustration does your daily commute push you over the edge.

Will you ever been stuck in traffic and I bet you wish you had a -- -- just mow over all of it.

Aren't Dave Briggs got the chance to do just -- -- -- tell us.

-- gonna want a tank now do you live -- in Connecticut and drive into pick to New York you're my guys going up.

Most boys and certainly if you little -- play pretend war games but flying an F sixteen or Apache helicopters.

Out of reach for most of us as adults driving a tank though.

It's now reality that.

Is the roller coaster.

Just not cutting it.

Found the perfect way.

To break out of -- summer doldrums.

Instead of they've used.

Try drive it today.

We're for a few hundred bucks you can rent a vehicle not offered it hurts and make your GI Joseph dreams come true.

Thanks for tourism and generally -- mentioned is that of much.

It's growing at an astonishing -- whether it's driving tanks or other activities that people.

Thought they could not do to -- -- it would do them I think his neighbors and other reasons.

By opening its -- -- and offering up the experience of a lifetime construction and heavy equipment contractor Tony court.

As thrill seekers flocking to tiny -- soda from Minnesota from all over the world.

-- must go to Saudi Arabia and corporate outings the bachelor and even bachelorette parties.

You bachelor and bachelorette parties you've had a bachelorette party here to drive -- extinct thank you.

Pop up the good lie and the ladies like to drive the tanks have absolutely.

-- Boys and girls the bad news was welcome to my crew.

And compliance Minnesota state law these tanks had been.

Beyond that these babies or the real deal straight from the Cold War -- I gotta tell you not only are these things intimidating in terms of their sheer size but getting in them.

Looks incredibly uncomfortable especially for somebody 630.

So instead of your couch this is kind of like a large uncomfortable.

-- bunker these things -- built for comfort where they're telling.

No absolutely not.

There are built quite a war.

And Israeli -- -- quarters largely foreign steering mechanisms and -- dimensions.

Make this very difficult but very enjoyable ride it's easy as I can attest.

-- led footed and for the student driver to get carried away.

Levers are your individual breaks.

For the right one to go right the left political left.

To think of it as -- -- wheel drive cars.

Tracked -- on the driving we have.

-- driving on the board game any of these eleven armored animals through twenty acre limestone quarry is not getting enough.

Fourth -- for a few more hundred dollars to let down sure monster truck camps.

If crushing a car like this -- 97 Lincoln it's not enough for you the folks who drive a -- might have just the thing.

You can drive straight through and all over a mobile home destroying it for a mere 3500 dollars.

So we are causing pressure got the -- that I got the owner's manual car -- to the carcass and and you don't have to have a driver's license -- -- asked earlier if anyone can drive if anyone can -- this take as long as you can reach the pedals they've said ten and twelve year olds.

Have actually given the tanks and all the way up to eighty year old -- as well did you get -- on your road rage.

A little bit a little bit but there's still more I hit a tree down there so that got up and -- and -- places -- its drive to ten.

And keep it's and to -- Minnesota -- drive a tank dot com based package is 400 bucks that's great and there.

Parking if you bring a tank to drive the -- yes which I did OK I don't think you're actually to the book that he -- for the memory.

Write -- him and it's.

Bob -- all of us.