# How to stop a stolen tank?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 13, 2017, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-a-stolen-tank/798715 "2017-10-13T09:13:25Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 11, 2018, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-stop-a-stolen-tank/798715/41 "2018-01-11T18:58:42Z")

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> [@gnoitall](#):
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> It’s tank because every tracked armored combat vehicle is a tank, and every rifle is an AK-47, etc.
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> Stupid press. (Willfully stupid, probably, because they don’t care about the real distinctions and assume no one else does either.)

Drives me crazy too. In our local paper every damn piece of construction equipment be it a backhoe or a freaking forklift is called a ‘bulldozer’

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