Police seek owner of ‘tank’ parked on a Nebraska interstate and get unexpected answer

A “tank” that mysteriously appeared along an interstate has Nebraska police scrambling to find its owner.

A division of the Nebraska State Patrol that monitors commercial trucking drove upon the military-looking vehicle on Thursday in central Nebraska, officials said in Twitter.

“To the trucking company that left this #tank on the side of the interstate in central Nebraska: We would like to talk to you! I’m sure (the U.S. Department of Defense) would as well!” Nebraska State Police Carrier Enforcement tweeted.

Within about half an hour, police had solved the mystery.

It wasn’t a tank but rather a bridge laying vehicle left along the road by a company, Nebraska State Police say.

“We’re working to make sure it gets to where it needs to get,” police tweeted. “So, no, you can’t claim it, but tanks for trying.”