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.”

  • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 hours ago

    most schools of morality posit that even in the most bitter business disputes, there are always non-Killdozer options

    Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.

    I wonder how long it took the town government to reject another citizen’s rezoning proposal after this event?