We don't mess around here in Colorado
 

From the Colorado Springs Gazette :

Granby, Colorado - Marv the Muffler Man was angry with everyone on the Granby Town Council, and he stayed angry. Marv Heemeyer, owner of the local muffler shop, had a long standing dispute with the city Coucil and his neighbor, Mountain Park Concrete. On Friday afternoon, Marv jumped into a D9 bulldozer which he had fortified himself, and began a drive down the main street of Granby. The first stop was the buildings of the concrete shop which Marv flattened one by one, despite the efforts of the owner to stop him with a front loader. Marv then headed toward Granby proper, brushing aside like flies two county workers in earth movers who tried to head him off. Phones in town rang with the opposite of 911, as emergency workers urged people to flee their homes. Mountain Parks Electric, the local utility company was next. After that, Marv targeted Maple Street Builders, pushing a yellow pick-up truck completely through the building. The Town Hall and Library followed in close order. After that, the local playground and two police cars were the next to bite the dust. Liberty Savings came down after them. Then Marv took down the building which housed the local newspaper whose publisher had taken an editorial stance against Marv in his long standing dispute with City Hall. Next came XGel Energy and the home of the former town mayor. The final target was Gambles Hardware where the D9 came to a stop inside the destroyed building. Onlookers heard a single shot and then nothing more. Mr. Heemeyer had taken his own life. Amazingly, no one else in Grandby was killed or even injured during this afternoon of wanton rampage.

And you guys on the East Coast think you have it bad!

Pity he took out the library.

I was thinking the same. ;)

I know =)

The other thing that came to mind is who calls an energy company XGel? Sounds like something I'd expect to see advertised on a porn site.

Yeah, really! Oh, I forgot. The paper quotes a friend of Marv's as saying, he was a "little" hot headed. Good thing it was only a "little!"

They'll call him a terrorist and get a bazillion dollars from the feds to build a better one.;)

It's not XGel, it's Xcel.

Hmmm... If true, I can have fun with the GAZETTE over that one. They really did call it XGel. I double checked!;)

Well, for once a worthy use of our tax dollar! Books for everyone! Knowledge is power! Power to the people! Right on! Librarians man you barricades!

Hmmm... If true, I can have fun with the GAZETTE over that one. They really did call it XGel. I double checked!;)

Maybe a sycamore is not that strong of a tree.

Re: We don't mess around here in Colorado
 

Is it true that while this was happening, Marv was yelling -

"ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US"?

Deuling heavy machinery? Cool...............................

[Drunk Teddy]I think we can all agree that nobody needs a D9 urban assault dozer. Cat needs to be sued out of existence. There are much smaller dozers that civilians with legitamit construction needs could be allowed to own with the proper licensing.[/drunk]

Apparently, he mostly constructed the machine himself, adding concrete re-inforcements and three videocams to help him see who or what might be approaching.

Damn right, lets march on Washington and demand legislation against big 'dozers, for the childrens sake.:D

think of the children!

Let's not forget that this is all GW's fault. Somehow. Just wait til that shows up in one of Teddy's tirades.

another view of the dozer ,

We had a similar sort of loonie take himself out a few months ago here in the KC area. The guy started a fire in one of his outbuildings, then, when the emergency vehicles started showing up, he opened fire on them with a small arsenal, including a 50 caliber rifle.

He had apparently booby-trapped his house, or perhaps miscalculated his powder storage, because he blew it (and himself, and his girlfriend) right off the face of the Earth on live TV.

He'd had a running beef with the city over junk stored on his property. His family had owned the land upon which his home sat for a few generations, since it had been farmland (the site is now squarely in the middle of suburban Kansas City, and has been for about 45 years now), and he apparently took issue with the gubment telling him what he could and couldn't do with his land, so he decided to teach 'em a lesson.

He was your fairly typical gun nut (read: loonies with firearms and stuff, NOT people like Wolf, Slang and other rational humans who just happen to have a love of and proficiency with guns), and was a well-known head case to his neighbors for the most part.

He was a piker compared to the 'dozer guy, though. You gotta have a certain admiration for someone who builds his own tank, trashes his town, and then takes himself out without injuring anyone else.

Thank you for your consideration.

There are "gun nuts" (i.e., firearms fanciers) and there are "nuts with guns". The overlap is relatively small.

Let us remember that gun control means being able to hit your target.

And making effective use of the small number of bullets you have available thanks to Diane Feinstein and Chucky Shumer.

Try to think of it as the firearms version of government fuel-economy requirements.

Then, if I constructed a fuel efficient D-9, would the government let me keep it? (Oh, Please? Pretty Please?);)

Certainly, bulldozers a perfectly legal.:)

anybody ever consider that he died for what he believed in? granted i wouldn't have gone psycho on the local public.......


[joke]and in other news, does this have some potential? [/joke]

<img src="http://www.myrefrigerator.com/images/Bulldozer.jpg"</i>

Oh hell, yes. In a wierd way, I almost admire him. He certainly made a statement, and he did so without physically harming another person. A lot of buildings bit the dust, but that's it. I do think he should have left the local public library alone, though.