[USMC79to83]

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Killdozer

RIP

Marvin Heemeyer moved to in Granby, Colorado in the early '90s and bought a foreclosed 2-acre lot where he built a muffler repair shop. What he didn't know is that his purchase had stalled the development plans of a wealthy businessman.

Over the next decade, this businessman and his allies in town led a multi-year bureaucratic campaign that bogged Heemeyer down in endless fines and red tape. Heemeyer seems to have backed out of several deals as a way to stick it to his enemies, but eventually, after his lawsuit failed, he sold his business and decided to literally bulldoze the confusing legal system.

After armoring his dozer, he demolished the town hall, the workplace of a city official on the zoning board, the local newspaper, and the homes and businesses of the influential families who had targeted him. He killed no one except for himself after the dozer got stuck in a hardware store.

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NOW DO HUMANS

[OldWarBaby]

I well remember Killdozer and have long, even before, reminded random dumbasses that I have more bulldozers than they do. Treating people unfairly, bureaukrats making stuff up, and just generally being a dickhead can sometimes require inacting attitude adjustment. I once kept books on a sloppy school board and wound up getting the whole bunch recalled———without having to doze them. Sometimes you have to slug a desk.

[Melian]

Re Killdozer:

I remember feeling quite sad for him at the time.

Also the man who had a standoff on the freeway out of frustration with the medical system.

Good people driven out of their minds by red tape.