The Local SE (Sweden’s news in English) has a story about a Swedish man who purchased a “tank” to drive around his farm.  As with most media stories, the vehicle in question is not a tank but actually a 1960’s era Soviet MT-LB multi-purpose light armored towing vehicle.  The owner of the vehicle, Jesper Lysell, stated that “So far we’ve just been driving over trees around the farm at my father’s place, and driving around on the fields. It’s quite dangerous because it’s open at the back, so if we have people in it, it can be quite dangerous when the trees fall down.”   The article notes that Jerker Lysell, who took the silver medal at last year’s European Orienteering Championships is notorious for his crazy exploits outside of competitions: he was arrested in Italy last year after attempting to run naked around the local mountains.

Private ownership of tracked military vehicles is not unheard of, or even particularly unusual.
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