This is actually real. Story of the Killdozer
June 4, 2004
When Marvin Heemeyer of Granby, Colorado, reached a dead-end in his fight with the local zoning commission, the logical response would have been to petition them once again and await a future reply from them. After all, Marvin Heemeyer was known to have been a logical man, so it was expected that he would have taken a logical approach.
Instead, Marvin Heemeyer went home, outfitted his Komatsu D355A bulldozer with armored plates, a layer of concrete, and bulletproof plastic, and drove it through the town in a rampage, knocking down 13 buildings and causing $7 million worth of damage with his makeshift “killdozer.”
Honestly the entire story about that man is fucked up. And you honestly also barely know what’s true. There’s the city officials, who are telling one story, and then there are people close to heemeyer who tell another story. I don’t think we’re ever gonna hear about the truth.
Eh, Heemeyer was an asshole. He was given a few different perfectly reasonable resolutions and refused them all.
According to the city, he was an asshole. According to other people, the city was being bribed by the construction company (or whatever it was) to basically strongarm him out of his property. And with all the knowledge I have about corporate america, especially in times where the exact same thing happens for datacenters, I’m in no position to certainly say that that’s a lie.