the legendary tonk known far
and wide by its bizarre design and
unknown origins countless memes
and reposts have been made and yet none
shed any light on the truth what is the
talk
is it even real and most importantly
where
is it
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those were all the questions i started
with when i began my investigation
i decided to first try my go-to method
for tracing something down
reverse image search using google a
pretty standard technique that you can
pretty much use to track down
a lot of the stuff that you might want
to find however i
quickly realized that although it did
give me some sources to investigate
it got me no closer to my goal i tried
various searches
to find even just one other image of
this
mythical cursed creation but to no avail
i was beginning to think the trail had
gone cold
before i had even begun that is
until i found one single comment a speck
of hope
in a sea of despair if you will hidden
beneath one of the original posts on
reddit
was one short sentence that changed
everything a potential city name and in
the most
unlikely of places saviano
italy this comment was nearly a year old
though and i had no way of verifying if
this information was legitimate
but what else did i have to go off other
than bad memes all using the same image
so i set to work i launched google maps
and i set my sites on saviano
and i almost immediately realized i was
basically back at square one
saviano is a nearly 14 square kilometer
area with
countless side roads any of which could
hold what i seek
but for all i know none of them could
and this could be a wild goose chase
in an attempt to give myself a better
chance i sent a message to the original
commenter
hoping to get more information but since
it had been nearly a year since the
comment
i figured that was a shot in the dark i
then returned to my attempts to search
the streets
i decided after a few attempts to drop
into random locations
that it would be best to start from the
uppermost point and work my way down
that's when i ran into something
peculiar
that i thought might be a lead a truck
full of
m113s a very weird thing to find
roaming the streets of rural italy
immediately i started theorizing that
maybe there was a nearby military base
that these could have come from and
could have the tank outside it
not that outlandish it's pretty normal
to have
some sort of display outside of a
military base or nearby
but looking at the surrounding area
within saviano
showed no such base and none of the
surrounding areas had anything that i
could find either
but upon investigation i did notice
something written on the side of one of
the hulls
kfor once again though a dead end
all that turned up was the kosovo force
or kfor a nato peacekeeping force
and a quick search of their bases showed
nothing in the area
and i honestly don't even know why these
things were on this specific street
my hopes of finding the tonk were
rapidly depleting
when i heard my phone buzz i nervously
checked it expecting to be disappointed
but sure enough
the reddit notifications symbol the only
time i'd ever been excited to see that
i had gotten a reply to my message and
after a quick
conversation i finally had it a street
name
with shaking hands i entered in my
last hope into maps and began
clicking down the street was this all
some elaborate ruse just a troll some
random guy on the internet
but then i saw it a slight
green shape mostly obscured by a passing
car
but i would know that shape anywhere i
had found
the tonk it was real
and all along it had been hiding in the
last
place anyone would have thought to look
in front of a mondo sport in saviano
italy
but not only did i find the location
but i had an answer to what it was
barely legible
from the angles of the google photos but
still enough to make out
was a plaque commemorating fallen
italian soldiers
from world war ii so after hours of
searching
and many near failures i had the answers
i sought the talk is not just some
mythical creation
but rather a memorial to those who
fought in the defense of their homeland
in italy during world war ii i want to
thank
snappled the fellow from reddit who
saved me from having to search through
miles and miles of roads on my quest
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