PEOPLE BEING PEOPLE

A specialized amusement park in southern Minnesota offers paying customers an experience that’s “ideal for satisfying one’s inner Rambo,” said Jeff Baenen in the Associated Press. At Drive a Tank (driveatank.com), $399 buys you a chance to maneuver a military tank around a wooded course and fire a historic machine gun. For an additional $549, you can use the tank to smash a junk car, and for about $3,500, you can crush a trailer house like a pancake. Every package includes a sit-down lesson on the history of armored vehicles, which you’ll appreciate later. Even a simple spin through the woods turns out to be a “loud, grinding, hot, and dirty” ride, but there may be no better way to get “a firsthand sense of what armored warfare might be like.” Better still, the adventure will nourish a fantasy you’ve no doubt had at least once while sitting in traffic—that you were granted the power to “roll over everything in your path.”