Deki posted:

You cant just throw that out there and not elaborate.

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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]

b-minus1 posted:

Dude just wanted to sell mufflers

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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.

“I just think he set things up to the point where you would have to say no.'” said Susie Docheff in an interview with the Sky-Hi News. “He probably set you up to say no’ just so he could get mad at you.”

DrPossum posted:

marvin may have been a piece of poo poo, but I will not listen to the slander against the killdozer

Blast of Confetti posted:

the city council and the private group he was feuding with bent over backwards to accommodate him. watch donoteats vid

big nipples big life posted:

so basically the story is about a bunch of assholes and a cool bulldozer.

MightyJoe36 posted:

Dude in San Diego stole a tank from the Army National Guard. Ended up being shot by a cop who crawled up on the turret and opened up the hatch.

eighty-four merc posted:

one of my favorite details of the killdozer is he plumbed air hoses to nozzles facing the camera lens covers to remove debris that would have blocked them during the rampage.

Cessna posted:

Cessna posted:

Hatches are locked from the inside. There's a handle that swings in to close the hatch, and you lock it by swinging a little bar in place to keep it from being pulled open. If you've got a crowbar and a bit of time it would be possible to break it open.

Cessna posted:

(Don't count on doing this in combat; if you get near a tank it will call "scratch my back" over the radio and every other tank nearby will spray it with machinegun fire to keep the enemy away/off of the tank.)

Evilreaver posted:

After the battle you'll need the ability to get soldiers out if they are wounded or dead without having to blowtorch it open

Burt Sexual posted:

Not a prob, thanks for all the good info you’re providing, and dumbing it down for us non tankologists.