God, I'm just thinking back to the guy who stole the M-60 back in San Diego; I was still in El Cajon at that time. We were terrified he was gonna stop on the freeway, turn around, and charge south in the northbound lane and go into all the stopped cars that the police had blocked off, but instead...well, thank God it turned out the way it did.
Years ago, I heard a story that when the US was retiring the M60s, the ended up going all sorts of places. Here in Canada, we had one delivered to a reserve armoury in Windsor. "Here; take it. Check it out, play with it. It's a gift. If you want them; you can have them. Have your people call our people."
The tank ended up on display in Borden as part of the (Quite impressive) tank park.
http://preservedtanks.com/Locations.aspx?LocationCategoryId=8000Naturally; we turned them down. While we've always had our issues up north; we've never been the type to look for a vast inventory of obsolescent hardware in order to increase coverage or try for quantity over quality. We prefer a small inventory of obsolescent hardware, thankyouverymuch.
However...
Another source told me that M60s, parts and even ammuntion had been disposed of through various US Government services and ended up in some rather weird places. Someone's department of highways, for instance (State of Washington?). I have always wondered if there was any truth to this?