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The Killdozer (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.world
 

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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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

honestly, he was probably pretty mentally fit.

you destroy an entire town out of spite and you think you're just getting arrested?

the man would have fell down a flight of stairs in a one floor police station and be found dead floating in a lake only for it to be called a suicide.

there are some crimes against society that can't go unpunished and his suicide was the final "fuck you, won't do what you tell me".

[–] prettybunnys@piefed.social 9 points 1 month ago

Given his why, he was defo not mentally fit.