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Here's another one of your heros.

They’d been hassling Carl Drega, retired carpenter, for years. He was cited for not finishing a tarpaper outbuilding on his property “soon enough.” He was cited for shifting rocks and fill to rebuild the shoreline of his property -- along the Connecticut River in upstate New Hampshire -- after it washed out in a flood. (Authorities claimed he didn’t have the proper permit. The state announced it would send in contractors to “put the shoreline back the way it was” -- precisely what Drega claimed he had done -- and bill Drega for the costs, however high.)

Drega tried to fight them in court, and to get the Boston Globe interested in his plight. But he was an unsophisticated man, and no one paid any attention to his rambling letters until that hot day in August 1998 when two local cops pulled him over in a supermarket parking lot for having “rust holes in the bed of his pickup.”

Then they started to pay attention.

Carl Drega shot and killed the two cops, drove downtown in one of the police cars, found the part-time judge who had backed many of the actions against him, and killed her too. Then, for good measure, he killed the editor of the local newspaper, who was foolish enough to try and tackle Drega while unarmed.

Carl Drega died later that day, in a shoot-out with police.

In San Leandro, California -- about

Carl Drega shot and killed the two cops, drove downtown in one of the police cars, found the part-time judge who had backed many of the actions against him, and killed her too. Then, for good measure, he killed the editor of the local newspaper, who was foolish enough to try and tackle Drega while unarmed.

My hero. (((sigh)))

I wonder if the local government pulled back on their enforcement of stupid laws immediately after this man lost his mind.