The last six years in Haiti have certainly come with their fair share of interesting experiences. Today, Zach got the opportunity to enjoy yet another new experience--being rear-ended by a Brazilian Armored Personnel Carrier operated by the United Nations (the picture above is another kind of tank used by the Sri Lanken UN contingent). For those of you who have never been rear-ended by a tank, it is actually not exactly an even match, even if you are driving a full-sized SUV with welded steel "cow-catcher" bumpers. One of the troops in the tank dismounted to apologize to him for the contact. Since he couldn't speak English or Haitian Kreyol, and Zach couldn't speak Portuguese, there was not a lot that could be said. Of course the other aspect was that his tank was bristling with machine guns and cannons and had one of its eight wheels amost ready to crush our Nissan like a cockroach. Suffice to say, the conversation was short! Luckily, the Brazilian tank rear-ended Zach's vehicle while it was inching along in bumper to bumper traffic. The steel bumper absorbed most of the shock and the damage was limited to the left taillight. That means that since purchasing the Nissan in 2010, it has been struck while stationary by a tank, a large water truck, one of our own mission vehicles, and a public taxi without brakes (as far as we know). Thankfully, none of these impacts have done a lot of damage thanks to God's grace and the steel bumpers we had welded onto the vehicle a few weeks after its purchase.