[marktwain]

Attacks using heavy equipment can be hard to stop. This attack reminds one of the use of a Komatsu front end loader in Hawaii to commit mass murder. In that attack, the perpetrator was finally stopped with gunfire.

[oldasrocks]

Should have used a D-8

[Made In The USA]

Ah.. A .50 cal to the motor isn’t necessary, a .22 to the skull works just fine too.

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

If it was a John Deere product, it could have been remotely disabled.

Yes, sarcasm.

Millions of dollars worth of heavy equipment parked and poorly guarded when union workers go home at night is not a good thing.

[P8riot]

Paging Marvin Heemeyer!

[redfreedom]

Once upon a time I worked the oil patch. I ran a large John Deere trackhoe and a coworker ran a Cat D6. We used to argue who would win if we started to fight each other with those things. He argued he could just tip me over and smash the cab. I argued could extend the bucket and crash down on his cab before he got to me. Of course this never happened, it was just idle humor while having lunch.

[healy61]

“The machine exited the driveway” and so on. It was the machine doing the damage. 3rd graders are now journalist?

[quantim]

“... residents exited the house and fired shots at the driver, wounding him...”

We can call all use a little target practice from time to time and save a few bullets, or a larger caliber, or both.

[sauropod]

Fun with construction equipment.

[Señor Presidente]

Maine? The headline made me think the story would be about the ubiquitous “Florida man...”.

[Track9]

Cabin fever.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Was that the attack where the perp had a .50 cal rifle with him but didn’t use it, but the anti .50 cal crowd decided to count it a a crime with a .50 cal anyway?

[FoxInSocks]

Remember the 35-year-old guy who stole an M60A3 tank from a National Guard armory and drove around San Diego wrecking cars? Back in 1995. I was in Orange County at the time.

P.S. Police cut open the hatch and shot and killed the guy after the tank became disabled due to a track coming off.

[Larry Lucido]

Did anybody here order “DoorSmash”?

[libertylover]

The sheriff’s officer reports residents exited the house and fired shots at the driver, wounding him and forcing his retreat.

Well, it's Maine, so I wonder if the residents will be charged with assault and attempted murder?

[metmom]

The front end loader did nothing. The DRIVER attacked.

And there’s astoundingly little info on him, which leads me to suspect an illegal.

[Sequoyah101]

Fresh out of bears to shoot?