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It's the 21st anniversary of Killdozer
Sky-Hi News ^ | 6/4/2025 | Staff

Posted on 06/04/2025 6:41:24 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits

Wednesday, June 4, was the 21st anniversary on the bulldozer attack in Granby. The attack was carried out by Marvin Heemeyer, a Granby business owner, in armored Komatsu D355A bulldozer.

Several buildings were damaged in the rampage, including the Sky-Hi News office, a bank, a hardware store, a concrete company, a utility service center, the town hall, the police department, and a former mayor’s home. He targeted those who he felt had dealt him an injustice, the crux of which was a zoning dispute.

The rampage lasted two hours and seven minutes, ending when the bulldozer got stuck attempting to go through the alleyway of Gambles Hardware Store.

Heemeyer then killed himself with a handgun. No other deaths occurred, but an estimated $7 million in damage was done.

Granby rebuilt itself even better after Marvin Heemeyer’s rampage, as the town of Granby came together to construct a new library, town hall and several other buildings. In the 21 years since the attack, the community has come a long way, but is still healing in many ways.

(Excerpt) Read more at skyhinews.com ...


TOPICS: History; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: bulldozer; colorado; granby; heemeyer; killdozer; komatsu

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1 posted on 06/04/2025 6:41:24 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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2 posted on 06/04/2025 6:43:39 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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They tried to drive the man out of his mind and they succeeded.


3 posted on 06/04/2025 6:44:31 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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They did do him an injustice.


4 posted on 06/04/2025 6:49:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2nd_Amendment_Defender; 6AL-4V; AAABEST; Age of Reason; AgentEcho; al baby; Alberta's Child; ...

Ping. Seeing who’s still around at 21 years.


5 posted on 06/04/2025 6:53:29 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) condemned the violence but expressed that “you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands.”


I don’t think Senator Elizabeth (Fauxahontas) ever thought this would be applied to government officials.


6 posted on 06/04/2025 6:54:26 PM PDT by marktwain
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I’m still around. Not dead yet.


7 posted on 06/04/2025 6:56:34 PM PDT by chrisinoc
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I’ve seen stories years afterwards and it looks like some of the places he destroyed were never rebuilt.


8 posted on 06/04/2025 7:00:50 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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AI will soon make all our posts, or so I am told, in which case no one will ever die...


9 posted on 06/04/2025 7:01:36 PM PDT by Fungi
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But it didn’t actually kill anyone.


10 posted on 06/04/2025 7:06:58 PM PDT by montag813
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I remember the incident but I wasn’t on FR then.


11 posted on 06/04/2025 7:08:02 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: T.B. Yoits

I think the author had a word limit. The article stops pretty abruptly


12 posted on 06/04/2025 7:13:15 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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“Still healing in many ways “

What many ways? Serving the voters? Still serving themselves? Not quite clean of corruption?


13 posted on 06/04/2025 7:16:46 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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I don’t know if you caught that the Sky-Hi News office was one of the buildings Marvin Heemeyer destroyed. The staff might not have wanted to print too much in this article and attract unwanted attention.


14 posted on 06/04/2025 7:17:58 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

Count me still here.


15 posted on 06/04/2025 7:20:57 PM PDT by ryderann
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Their "healing in many ways" might be coping with how their worldview was shattered when someone was pushed too far.

They're fortunate Marvin didn't have a better awareness of the building basement or an accomplice with a second killdozer.

16 posted on 06/04/2025 7:21:09 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Wow, this is weird! I signed up on FR on June 4, 2004! I’d been lurking quite a while. Maybe the Killdozer story finally got me to sign up.


17 posted on 06/04/2025 7:22:29 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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—”Ping. Seeing who’s still around at 21 years.”

Oh crap!
My calendar must have broken again?

Batteries?

Next time, maybe I’ll get a perpetual calendar, if I can find one on sale.


18 posted on 06/04/2025 7:29:02 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last messag)
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To: ryderann

Granby was and I imagine still is a very pleasant and cooperative small village of a town. The narrative is that the killdozer guy was constantly crabbing off and the town’s people grew to hate him. It was as if the killdozer guy was trying to be unpleasant. A splinter causing irritation. The town’s people grew wanted him out and not on.


19 posted on 06/04/2025 7:35:40 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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...injustice...

As a singular, it does describe what I recall as a pattern, a conspiracy and multiple acts to aggrieve him.

At the time, having learned all the details separate from biased media reports, I recall having much sympathy.

Over the years, I've grown angry that justice was never served against those people.

20 posted on 06/04/2025 7:39:06 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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