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 Today is a special day. June 4th 2018 marks the 14th 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. Petitioned to 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 city government 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, camera systems guarded with bulletproof glass. On June 4th 2004 Marvin Heemeyer lowered the armored shell over top of himself, entombing himself inside the Killdozer to make his last stand. He burst fourth 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 teams 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 the Killdozer, but it too fell to the dozers 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 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
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Oh to live in simpler times in a simpler America where your neighborly problems can be resolved by armored bulldozer  edit: Also your post needs to be updated to the year of our lord 2019 and this is the 15th year anniversary
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Jun 4, 2019 13:33
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godbless, god rest
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Jun 4, 2019 13:34
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA memories
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Jun 4, 2019 13:35
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DrPossum posted:Oh to live in simpler times in a simpler America where your neighborly problems can be resolved by armored bulldozer 
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Jun 4, 2019 13:39
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Never forget.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:11
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Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:15
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Don't let your dog poo poo in his yard.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:16
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He went out of his way not to hurt anyone who wasn't associated with the city council screwjob and only shot at cops. The older I get the more I appreciate all that he did. Cops will argue that he almost caused a bunch of deaths by shooting at some propane tanks, but just note that the only people who might have been harmed were more cops.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:17
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Bong rips for killdozer RIP
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Jun 4, 2019 14:28
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DrManiac posted:Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story. You cant just throw that out there and not elaborate.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:29
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Deki posted:You cant just throw that out there and not elaborate. quote:The sheriff's department also noted that 11 of the 13 buildings Heemeyer bulldozed were occupied until moments before their destruction. At the town library, for example, a children's program was in progress when the incident began.[2][5] Trying to bulldoze children in a library kinda tarnishes the 'folk hero' image a little.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:32
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DrManiac posted:Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story. In every superhero movie at some point the media starts slandering the hero before the hero proves everyone wrong and saves the day. edit: same thing with Dorner
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Jun 4, 2019 14:32
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the shining star for all rampage enthusiasts to admire. supposedly they wanted to discourage fans from collecting memorabilia so it was dismantled and scattered but that seems like foreshadowing for a sequel. The once and future killdozer
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Jun 4, 2019 14:34
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DrManiac posted:Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:36
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Dude just wanted to sell mufflers
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Jun 4, 2019 14:36
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DrManiac posted:Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story. Can't corner the dorner
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Jun 4, 2019 14:39
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2004 killdozer 2008 iron man
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Jun 4, 2019 14:42
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Shut up Meg posted:Trying to bulldoze children in a library kinda tarnishes the 'folk hero' image a little. you just gonna believe what a cop tells you huh 
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Jun 4, 2019 14:43
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Deki posted:You cant just throw that out there and not elaborate. He was offered $250k for the land that he purchased for $42k - an agreement which he initially accepted and then backed out of and demanded a million. Still owns though.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:44
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b-minus1 posted:Dude just wanted to sell mufflers https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/06/09/killdozer-day-marvin-heemeyer/ quote:The story of the batch plant also goes back to 1992, three years after Heemeyer had moved to the area. Heemeyer bought his two acres from the Resolution Trust Corp., the federal agency set up to handle the assets of failed savings and loan institutions. He bought the two acres for $42,000 but later agreed to sell it to the Docheff family, which wanted the property for a concrete batch plant, for $250,000. They agreed, but then he wanted $375,000 and at some later point wanted a deal worth approximately $1 million. All of this was well before the rezoning proposal hit town hall.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:47
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in 2019 goons can't even enjoy killdozer of all things without cataloging the ways its problematic smdh
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Jun 4, 2019 14:50
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are some buttholes gonna come into the killdozer thread on killdozer day and spout off some nonsense about how if you cant reach a business agreement with someone then youre in the right to cut off road and sewer access to try to financially ruin them instead? really?
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Jun 4, 2019 14:54
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Heemeyer was just trying to get money from a ridiculously rich family, the Docheffs. If you read up on the Docheffs you might discover some fun stuff that shows just how lovely they are. John Docheff has basically spent his entire adult life beating women and getting a slap on the wrist for it.
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Jun 4, 2019 14:57
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Jun 4, 2019 14:57
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fakeaccount posted:
Fix your OP. It's 2019!
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Jun 4, 2019 15:06
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I've been to Granby, CO. In my opinion he should have been allowed o bulldoze the whole town, then been awarded a presidential medal of some kind.
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Jun 4, 2019 15:07
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DrManiac posted:Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story. The problem with humans is the only people willing to fight the system are huge shitheads who are predisposed to violence anyway and they usually want to just burn everything down without any plans to build something better on the ashes. It's "Fight or Flight", not "Fight, Flight, or come up with a workable solution".
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Jun 4, 2019 15:08
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Never forget. :salute:
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Jun 4, 2019 15:08
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Hero of the working man.
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Jun 4, 2019 15:21
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holy smokes that happened in 2004??
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Jun 4, 2019 15:31
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Yaldabaoth posted:The problem with humans is the only people willing to fight the system are huge shitheads who are predisposed to violence anyway and they usually want to just burn everything down without any plans to build something better on the ashes. It's "Fight or Flight", not "Fight, Flight, or come up with a workable solution". dude didnt really fight "the system" so much as his neighbors but his neighors seemed lovely too
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Jun 4, 2019 15:33
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countdown until someone posts donoteats klldozer vid
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Jun 4, 2019 15:33
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Deki posted:You cant just throw that out there and not elaborate. donoteat made a video in this thread bitterandtwisted fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jun 4, 2019 |
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Jun 4, 2019 15:33
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maker posted:Bong rips for killdozer RIP
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Jun 4, 2019 15:46
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DrManiac posted:Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story. we regret to inform you that milkshake dozer is racist
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Jun 4, 2019 15:50
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ISIS was inspired by his engineering vision https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/news/a19555/why-isis-is-building-mad-max-truck-bombs/ And the Kurds fighting them https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/30/homemade-armoured-vehicles-isis-peshmerga
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Jun 4, 2019 15:55
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DrManiac posted:Like all folk heroes the killdozer guy ended up being a huge shithead when you look into the story. hitler actually had a lot of good ideas A Bakers Cousin posted:ISIS was inspired by his engineering vision the first tanks were pretty much just armored tractors/bulldozers, we've just come full circle back to world war 1
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Jun 4, 2019 16:09
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Viva la Killdozer. lovely small town governance fucks people over in big ways everyday. The Pom Wonderful company (Fiji water)has been trying to get permission to pump out my town's aquifer so they can resell it. It's being done under the guise of them needing the enhanced water rights so they can water their vineyards, but they've stated a desire to create massive on site holding tanks that are atypical for AG use and more in line with storing potable water for transport. The company, along with other local corporate ag interests, formed a committee that was voted for by the county supervisors. Now, they all get to dictate what happens with the water. They basically put the foxes in charge of the hen house and there's not much anyone can do about it since it's now all tied up as a local government oversight committee. Since this is in California, we don't have much water anyways. A few years ago, one of the towns an hour north of me literally ran out of water. Their wells went dry, and the only thing that came out was like a black sludge. They pumped so much water out of the ground that parts of the town started loving sinking due to subsidence.
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maker posted:Bong rips for killdozer RIP
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