its not
Its not a collectors toy, its a police vehicle. I saw it one day during its 'working hours'.
One day i am turning onto Fairland off of 29 to get to my former residence and a county police care is blocking my street, parked across it, and the officer is standing beside his car.
He must have been asked this about 500 times in the last 10 minutes, but i asked anyway: "What time will we be able to return to out homes?"
"Right now, you DON'T!" he says.
Which isn't what I asked.
Anyhow, I drive around and find the last 'unguarded' entrance to my subdivision and the last empty space and parked. EVERY singleother space was a police car, marked or unmarked it was easy to tell. Oh, this is funny: guess what my first thought was.......
"Oh ?????, they got the guns!" I thought in that brief instant that a bazillion cops wouldn't be around if they had 'only' gotten my family (who weren't home, anyway, but still...)
Well it turns out that a couple B&E guys were holed up in a house nearby and rumored to have the occupant hostage. They didn't. And it all resolved peacefully. But the HARDWARE was incredible!
They had that armored car driving around, a sniper in a ghillie suit (he looked pretty uncomfortably warm as he dragged that suit back to his car which was right in front of my house), dogs, dogs, dogs, and every officer with his service handgun or rifle. There were at least 50 cops surrounding this place.
Now, alot of them were just standing around talking. Looked like a 'what the hell, let's check it out" kind of thing for a good number of them. but alot of them clearly had an assigned role. Let me tell you, the Montgomery County Law Enforcement community is mechanized and militarized and loaded for bear.
Left a bad taste in my mouth to tell you the truth.
Anyway, the vehicle belonged to them, not a 'collecotr'.
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