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  • Geezer

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    Copied from another site. I did highlight the quote from Marvin.

    Today is a special day.

    Today is the 15 year anniversary of the Killdozer's rampage through Granby, Colorado.

    Sit down kids and let me tell you 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 requested the city 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 citygovernment 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 three foot thick steel and concrete armor and camera systems guarded with bulletproof glass.

    On June 4th, 2004 Marvin Heemeyer lowered the armored shell over top of his creation, 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 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 Killdozer, but it too fell to the dozer's 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 should 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."

    When injustice becomes the law, resistance becomes duty. So raise a glass today for Marvin Heemeyer, Patriot and American hero.

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    SQLGeek

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    Two months late but hey I'll drink to that anyway:

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    Southpaw

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    There is a decent documentary on NetFlix, called "Tread" about this incident. Not great, but not bad. The wife and I watched it over the weekend.
    There's a very good documentary about this on Netflix called Tread. It just came out, watched it yesterday.

    Just watched it. Thanks fellas. I really didn't know the background story behind it.
     

    Mowingmaniac 24/7

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    I watched it, found it interesting, but was left wondering, were the townspeople really the ones at fault for conspiring & pushing the dozer driver over the edge?

    Or, did the dozer driver spin off into a bizarro world of rationalizing that what he did was just?

    What say you?

    PS: I fully appreciate the video could be full of utter bs too....
     

    Axxe55

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    I watched it, found it interesting, but was left wondering, were the townspeople really the ones at fault for conspiring & pushing the dozer driver over the edge?

    Or, did the dozer driver spin off into a bizarro world of rationalizing that what he did was just?

    What say you?

    PS: I fully appreciate the video could be full of utter bs too....

    Kind of how I thought at the ending of the show. Kind of left it hanging for the viewer to decide for themselves which side was right, and which was wrong.
     

    Lost Spurs

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    I watched it, found it interesting, but was left wondering, were the townspeople really the ones at fault for conspiring & pushing the dozer driver over the edge?

    Or, did the dozer driver spin off into a bizarro world of rationalizing that what he did was just?

    What say you?

    PS: I fully appreciate the video could be full of utter bs too....

    I was pondering the same thing last night. Thinking of his big group of snowmobile cats that spread his ashed, there was clearly a few people that were his friends.

    I also know how boards and city council Karen's are. In a small town I am sure it is terrible.

    I have also had that borderline schizophrenic friend that always thought people were out to do him wrong. No matter what.

    At the end, my better half and I were talking about it and I have to fall on the side of him being a bit off. He claimed he was on a mission from God to exact vengeance that ended in suicide. I belive that vengeance is the Lord's and suicide is not the way out.

    I'll leave it with this. Tread being the trigger word, but almost fitting.

    HAD I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
    Enwrought with golden and silver light,
    The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
    Of night and light and the half light,
    I would spread the cloths under your feet:
    But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
    I have spread my dreams under your feet;
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
    W.B. Yeats (1865–1939)


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