25th anniversary of destructive tank rampage [View all]

[Zorro]

25 years ago, a jaw-dropping sight rolled through San Diego streets: a tank crushing everything in its path.

Stunned residents in a Kearny Mesa neigborhood described a 'rumbling, grinding noise' as the M60 tank carved a path of destruction.

10news photojournalist Rett Lawrence was at dinner with co-workers when he got the page.

"You've never seen so many guys run out to the door so fast," said Lawrence.

As a police helicopter flew overhead, the 60-ton tank ripped through cars, signs, traffic lights, hydrants and whatever was in its path. In one sequence, the tank destroyed a trailer and a van, before sheering through a mobile home like scissors.

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