英退役工兵1万英镑购坦克 停自家引抗议

　　Residents in a quiet village of UK are embroiled in an extraordinary neighborhood row after a military enthusiast bought a £10,000 (about＄16,187)tank and parked it outside his home。

　　The huge green tanklike crane, designed to carry out battlefield repairs, has been sitting in a lay-by since new owner Nicholas Kravchenko of Wolvercote, near Oxford, drove it there last week。

　　Residents living in the normally tranquil area of Wolvercote, have branded the machine an ''eyesore''. Police have now been called in to settle the "neighborhood dispute" amid claims the tank was intimidating locals。

　　The enthusiast Kravchenko, a retired army engineer, is now refusing to move the vehicle, which came complete with caterpillar tracks and take up three-and-a-half normal parking spaces。

　　''I can go out and drive it any time I like. There's no law to stop anyone having 10 tanks. The council have not said it is anti-social and the police would have been straight on to me if it was parked illegally," he said。

　　Neighbors said he was ruining their street. They appealed to Oxford City Council to take action but the authority said it was powerless to act。