Killdozer destroys town

[XR6Dan]

Angry, angry man... Check out the video - bulldozer vs. scraper.

http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/s...d.php?t=143648
http://digg.com/videos/people/Bulldo...hing_but_watch

52 year old welder Marvin Heemeyer lived in Grunbee Colorado fixing vehicle mufflers. His small repair shop was located near a concrete factory called Mountain Park. To Marvin and his neigbors' horrors, the owners of Mountain Park decided to expand the factory, forcing the people living near-by to sell their land to Mountain Park.

Sooner or later the factory's neigbhors gave up, except for Marvin. Having tried every way possible, the owners of the factory failed to acquire his land. However all the surrounding land was now owned by the factory, which resulted in Marvin's shop getting cut off from the rest of the world.

Marvin tried everything in his powers to restore justice. Obsiously, the city council and other politicians of the state were on the factory owners' evil capitalist side.

It's not suprising that Marvin lost the case to the owners, in court. After that Marvin was also given a $2500 fine for not having a connected sewer line. When paying the fine, Marvin attached a note to the check and ticket that read "Cowards".

He was just one of those who would not give up.

On the 4th of June, 2004 during a rainy day Marvin rolled out into town on a bulldozer reinforced with metal sheets. He started with the concrete factory, destroying building after building, until the factory was demolished. Then it was the city council's turn followed by the town hall, then the bank, the public library, the fire station, a warehouse, the local paper and other buildings belonging to the mayor.

Having tried to stop Heemeyer, the police finally understood that Marvin's bulldozer was unstoppable. More than 200 bullets were fired at the vehicle, causing no harm at all. The police force then decided to battle the titan with hand grenades. Once again their efforts were useless. Later a vehicle rigged with explosives was put in Marvin's path to destruction, it also had little luck in stopping him.

Marvin returned fire using two semi-automatic .23 caliber rifles and a single .50 caliber semi-automatic rifle through specially designed holes in the vehicle's front, left and right sides.

All the police were able to do, was evacuate 1500 inhabitants (the town's population was 2200) and block all the roads, including a federal highway that lead to the town.

Marvin's war ended at 4:23 PM.

Having just finished destroying the Gambles Mall, the bulldozer suddenly stopped. The only thing that could be heard comming form Marvins death machine was smoke out of a damaged radiator.

At first the police officers were too afraid to approach the thing. Trying to get Marvin out of his fortress, they had to make a hole in the armor. When they finally got through, Marvin was allready dead. He wasn't going to get into the enemy's hands alive.

Despite the great damage to property (13 buildings were destroyed, most requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars to be replaced), no one besides Heemeyer was injured; observers noted that Heemeyer appeared to go out of his way to avoid injury to bystanders.

The governor said that the city looked as if a tornado had just gone through.

Later an investigation was carried out. It was discovered that Marvin's creation was so strong that even a powerful artillery blow would only cause minor damage. The bulldozer was totally covered in sheet metal, with each piece being at least half an inch thick. In places, the vehicle's armor was over one foot thick, consisting of concrete sandwiched between sheets of steel to make ad-hoc composite armor.

To fit the bulldozer with this shell, Marvin had to use a self-made crane. "Lowering the protective armor onto the vehicle, Marvin knew he wouldn't be able to get out"- said police officials.

Although Marvin packed the interior with supplies such as water, food, ammo and a gasmask. To control the killdozer, Marvin used 3 monitors and a couple of video cameras. In an event of the cameras being blinded by dust, they were fitted with air compressors.

It took Marvin 2 months to design the Killdozer, and according to sources, 1.5 years to build it.

"He was a fine lad", - said the people that were close to Marvin. "They shouldn't have made him angry". "If he was your friend, he was your best friend. And if he was your enemy, well he was your worst and most dangerous enemy." - said Marvins friends.

[R0BD0G]

the thins people do.....i want it

[SB076]

Thats an incredible piece of machinery - I cant get the videos to work (presume they have been removed)

[HLC]

that is scary =|

[Falcon_Phill]

Couldnt they have blown the tracks off?

[JG66ME]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer

More on the guy. I would of thought a true American would of insisted on using a Cat.

Steve

[Dezza]

Sounds like the Ned Kelly of bulldozers... in many ways

[flappist]

Having had a few run ins with council I can understand how he felt.......

You can't fight city hall, hang on, YES YOU CAN..........

[Walkinshaw]

This guy is a champ!

[nugget378]

Originally Posted by Walkinshaw

This guy is a champ!

Ill say,although was a champ is more fitting..Unfortunately...

[Full Noise]

This is pretty old news. I’m supprised that more people don’t already know of this.

[Outbackjack]

Originally Posted by flappist

Having had a few run ins with council I can understand how he felt.......

You can't fight city hall, hang on, YES YOU CAN..........

Local councils are all run by a bunch of loosers.

1998 - OBJ to local counciler: I am building a house and I want to install a rain water tank. What permits do I need?

Local Counciler: You can;t install rain water tank and if you do we will double your rates for evey month that it is there.....

OBJ: Your kidding!! W4nkers!!

Now they pay you to put rain water tanks in!!!

I have had so many run in's with these small minded loosers I know exactly how that guy was feeling.

[Full Noise]

The fact that this happened in a small town Granby, Colorado, doesn’t surprise me either. As with many small towns, even many larger ones, those in power forget that they don’t actually own the place.

Here’s an old link from the story. There’s plenty of You Tube videos on it, also.

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news...47/detail.html

[EdFairmontGhia]

pitty about the destruction and vandalism to the town, but what an awesome piece of machinery, Too bad if Mr Bush's enemy's decided to create such a machinea and actually aim it to harm people....

[Full Noise]

Originally Posted by EdFairmontGhia

pitty about the destruction and vandalism to the town.

I’m pretty sure that was the primary objective here.

Originally Posted by EdFairmontGhia

Too bad if Mr Bush's enemy's decided to create such a machinea and actually aim it to harm people....

Although they’re not his enemies, I think you’ll find that the Israeli military have been using amour plated bulldozers for years against the Palestinians. Probably where this bloke got the idea from.

[Cobra]

It's a shame that some people are reduced to these sorts levels. It sounds like the bloke didn't have much to live for after reading that wikipedia article. Councils and local governments can be absolute pains, and in some cases, like this gentlemans (and i use the term loosly) down right bastards. It does not give someone the right to go on a rampage of any sort, but I'm sure the local government in Granby, Colorado will think twice about ever implementing infrastructure in favour of ruining somebodies livelyhood again.

[gozza]

Great Effort -

[Citizen]

Owned.