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Driving Through the Salon of the Republic

The Czech Republic is proud of many of its architecturally rich Old Towns, and the collection of gothic, renaissance, baroque, art nouveau and you-name-it architecture in the northern Bohemian town of Hradec Králové has encouraged the locals to label H.C. the Salon of the Republic.

So let's say you're in Hradec Králové sweating through Europe's heat wave and you promise your kids an ice cream. Of course, it's too hot to walk into town, so what do you do? Take your armored personnel carrier, of course.

Just what an ordinary 34-year-old Czech man is doing with such a military vehicle is a bit beyond us, but apparently it's normal there to sell off old equipment to whoever wants it. The only thing he did wrong was to drive it across the historic Old Town Square, putting the Salon's Architecture at risk. The police fined him, but as far as we know still let him take the ice cream back to his kids.

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Man Drives APC for Ice Cream [Prague Daily Monitor]