Posted on 06/04/2019 5:12:24 PM PDT by Drew68
June 4th, 2019 marks the 15th anniversary of the Killdozer's rampage through Granby, Colorado.
Sit down kids, and let me tell you a tale. A tale about a reasonable man driven to do unreasonable things.
Marvin Heemeyer was a man who owned a muffler shop in Granby, Colorado. The city council ordained to approve the construction of a concrete factory in the lot across from Marvin's shop. In the process, this blocked the only access road to the muffler shop. Marvin petitioned to stop the construction to no avail. He petitioned to construct a new access road, and even bought the heavy machinery to do so himself. Denied.
The concrete factory went up in disregard to the ramifications on Marvin's business. To add insult to injury, the factory construction disconnected the muffler shop from the city sewage lines. An indifferent city government then chose to fine Marvin for this.
His business and livelihood were in ruin. Rather than lie down and die, Marvin chose to fight back. Over the course of a year and a half, Marvin secretly outfitted the bulldozer he bought to save his business with 3-foot thick steel and concrete armor, camera systems, and enclosed bulletproof glass.
On June 4th, 2004 Marvin Heemeyer lowered the armored shell over top of himself, entombing himself inside the Killdozer to make his last stand. He burst forth from the walls of his muffler shop and straight into the concrete factory that ruined his business. Over the course of the next several hours, Marvin drove his Killdozer through 13 buildings owned by those officials that had wronged him, including the city council building itself.
SWAT teams swarmed the dozer, but it proved immune to small arms fire and even explosives. Another piece of heavy machinery was even brought out to fight the Killdozer, but it too fell to the dozers righteous fury.
In the end, Marvin's Killdozer became trapped in one of the buildings it was built to destroy. Marvin chose to take his life, the only life he took that day.
Today, we celebrate Killdozer Day and Marvin Heemeyer, the last great American folk hero. A man driven to the brink who chose to fight back against an indifferent system.
From notes left behind after his passing:
"I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things."
HAPPY KILLDOZER DAY!
James Garner?
Exactly!
Heh, I thought I remembered someone cracking a Rachel Corrie joke...
Why is this not a movie...and if it was a movie, how could ithave sucked?
It certainly appears that way.
Why would they effectively cut off or remove access road to his business though? Why is a cement plant going in, mutually exclusive to his muffler shop? I mean couldn’t they have both, don’t cities want the tax revenue after all? It doesn’t make sense unless they had a hard on for this guy for (previous) disputes?
It sure illustrates the fact that people may have no effective redress against an out of control government when it goes rogue.
Well the kicker was they let the cement plant destroy his sewer line access, didnt fine the cement plant for doing so, and then fined him for “not being connected”.
That is deliberately fuching someone over under color of law. And also using a private party to cause another private party damage, to do your dirty work for you.
I actually visited Theodore Sturgeon once at his house behind Dodger Stadium.
Thanks
Knowing what i know now of his predicament i can only hope i wasn’t posting a comment back then of how to stop him.
If anything i would have helped him, make a better armor for his radiator for one thing, and possibly an escape plan.
Kina like the Democrats printing up fake info to use a fisa warrant to spy on a President , spend 30 Million dollars on an illegal special council to look for a crime for justifying impeachment for the crime they never found?
Rampant governmental corruption by pinheads.
Yes. Discussions, not trolling. Source material and not click bait was posted for discussions.
My support for the most conservative guy I could find nearly had me banned but instead resulted in them choosing to refuse my continued monthly donations.
People emailed me when they saw the kerfuffle and told me they were resigning as a result.
I’m still here. Cheaper.
Perfect demonstration of why we must NOT give politicians too much power.
Every single day that goes by in this over-regulated country when something like this doesn't happen is a small miracle, and testament to how law-abiding Americans generally are.
Thanks for the reminder! I’ll never forget dozer man.
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