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.”

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    14 hours ago

    He tried to knock down buildings that were occupied (often by innocents unrelated to his feuds) until moments before he got to them. I don’t see why you’re downplaying his actions.

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      7 hours ago

      Glazer, angsty, admiration, desire to do the same to the people whove “wronged” them, and be vilified as a fuckin hero

      Cant fantasize about doing it themselves if people are going to “drag the OG’s reputation through the mud” despite the OG being deranged and obviously deserving of criticism