Uh, whoa.

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04 Jun 2004, 07:25 PM
CynicalSphere

Uh, whoa.

Some guy is using an armor-plated bulldozer to wipe out his town...

Breaking news
04 Jun 2004, 07:26 PM
James

Video video video! Oh please god let there be video of this gloriously destructive event!

James
04 Jun 2004, 07:27 PM
Damian79

... is it considered "going ape-shit" if they planned ahead?

EDIT: It would be the icing on the cake if someone blames blast corps for this.
04 Jun 2004, 07:40 PM
Mman

I was thinking the same thing damian.
04 Jun 2004, 07:44 PM
Green

If his plan is to protect the town from a nuclear bomb (by destroying it), then yeah, it'd be funny.
04 Jun 2004, 07:44 PM
lithium

Awesome. If you're gonna go down, go down like this. I want to see at least some pics.
04 Jun 2004, 08:08 PM
stormy

Quote:

Originally Posted by James

Video video video! Oh please god let there be video of this gloriously destructive event!

/me prays
04 Jun 2004, 08:16 PM
Jeremy

I feel so wrong for laughing about this but, eh, it's funny, tragically so, but still funny.
04 Jun 2004, 08:23 PM
stormy

just aw short clips on Fox News and CNN, couldn't really tell anything about the mods made to the bulldozer but it looked like it was stuck in a building with cops on the top of it opening it up. No other information provided but better reports should be coming in soon. This guy kicks ass.

put on Fox News

CNN too, both are running the footage
04 Jun 2004, 08:34 PM
Nick

What a waste of flesh this guy is.
04 Jun 2004, 08:43 PM
Damian79

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick

What a waste of flesh this guy is.

Why? Did you have some way of using his flesh to create greater destruction than what he has done himself?
04 Jun 2004, 09:10 PM
lithium

Mine as well enjoy it. Criticizing him's not going to bring back the buildings; and as far as I know no one has been hurt. How many times do you get to see someone go rampaging on a bulldozer?!
04 Jun 2004, 09:22 PM
Frogacuda

So awesome. I have a new hero.
04 Jun 2004, 09:26 PM
Nick

Quote:

Originally Posted by Damian79

Why? Did you have some way of using his flesh to create greater destruction than what he has done himself?

No, but I was going to make some nice book covers.
04 Jun 2004, 09:27 PM
Grave

If I completely lose it someday, I'd hope I'd have the foresight to get ahold of the proper equipment before I go on a rampage. The bar has been raised.
04 Jun 2004, 09:38 PM
Damian79

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick

No, but I was going to make some nice book covers.

Human-skin book covers, nice. I would rather makes a leather jacket out of it myself. :p
04 Jun 2004, 10:19 PM
James

Beats lamp covers any day of the week.

James
05 Jun 2004, 02:02 AM
Shine

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick

No, but I was going to make some nice book covers.

I was afraid you were gonna say something like "making a 'woman suit.'"
05 Jun 2004, 02:08 AM
Nick

Nah, I dance under the moon in my own skin.
05 Jun 2004, 02:25 AM
LOL

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jeremy

I feel so wrong for laughing about this but, eh, it's funny, tragically so, but still funny.

Do you even know what tragic means? No one died, except maybe the guy.
05 Jun 2004, 02:39 AM
Shine

Quote:

Originally Posted by omfgninjas

Do you even know what tragic means? No one died, except maybe the guy.

Do you even read his posts anymore? He says that in almost every fucking thread. I bet he even has a macro for it.
05 Jun 2004, 02:40 AM
MarkRyan

http://www.kcncnews4.com/

Video.
05 Jun 2004, 02:50 AM
lithium

:lol: damn did he take that building out! best news story in ages. That was awesome. Sad for the shop owners, but awesome nonetheless.
05 Jun 2004, 02:56 AM
Jeremy

Ninjas, the term "tragic" doesn't always mean that death is involved.
05 Jun 2004, 03:48 AM
MarkRyan

Quote:

Originally Posted by Meriam Webster

tragedy
1 a : a medieval narrative poem or tale typically describing the downfall of a great man b : a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that excites pity or terror c : the literary genre of tragic dramas
2 a : a disastrous event : CALAMITY b : MISFORTUNE
3 : tragic quality or element
05 Jun 2004, 04:06 AM
Captain Vegetable

In...credible.
05 Jun 2004, 05:38 AM
Master

Soooo, what happened to the dude inside?
05 Jun 2004, 06:55 AM
g0zen

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick

What a waste of flesh this guy is.

You'd have preferred he'd blown the places up during peak business hours? Or maybe just walked into each of them with an uzi? I for one prefer, but by no means condone, damage to property as opposed to loss of lives.
05 Jun 2004, 10:39 AM
youandwhosearmy

Quote:

Originally Posted by Master

Soooo, what happened to the dude inside?

uhh he smashed things.
05 Jun 2004, 11:11 AM
Frogacuda

Quote:

Originally Posted by g0zen

You'd have preferred he'd blown the places up during peak business hours? Or maybe just walked into each of them with an uzi? I for one prefer, but by no means condone, damage to property as opposed to loss of lives.

I think he would have preferred he like... wrote a letter to his congressman, or some such.
05 Jun 2004, 11:40 AM
Dolemite

Quote:

Originally Posted by Master

Soooo, what happened to the dude inside?

Offed himself.

Quote:

Originally Posted by ShineAqua

I was afraid you were gonna say something like "making a 'woman suit.'"

Out of a man?
05 Jun 2004, 03:00 PM
soundwave

yeah this was awesome. I remember seeing footage of a stolen tank which rampaged through a suburb and went on the highway. The tank crossed the divider and got stuck, The police opened the tank from above and shot the guy inside. Mechanicalrampages should happen more frequently and last longer...

Quote:

Undersheriff Glen Trainor said the dozer's armor plates consisted of two sheets of half-inch steel with a layer of concrete between them. Grand County Commissioner Duane Dailey said Heemeyer apparently used a video camera and two monitors found inside to guide the dozer. Two guns were mounted in front and aimed through portals. Other portals were cut in the back. It was unclear how many guns Heemeyer had in the dozer."

Woah, indeed.
05 Jun 2004, 09:14 PM
Master

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dolemite

Out of a man?

Of course not, out of homeless women and prostitutes silly! Are you trying to tell me you have never made a girly suit to strut around town in? It's the cat's meow.
06 Jun 2004, 05:16 PM
Tommy Tallarico

Quote:

Originally Posted by g0zen

You'd have preferred he'd blown the places up during peak business hours? Or maybe just walked into each of them with an uzi? I for one prefer, but by no means condone, damage to property as opposed to loss of lives.

You know how idiotic that statement is, right? It's not like this is an a) smash buildings or b) go into McDonald's shooting situation. There is a choice "c" here, which is deal with it like a normal person and accept that sometimes life sucks. That's like saying "You know, I'm not happy that guy punched me in the face for stepping on his shoe, but prefer that to him shooting me, so it's cool."
07 Jun 2004, 03:43 AM
salmonax

Quote:

Originally Posted by Denver Post

The bulldozer then rolled over the undersheriff's marked patrol car, a Ford Expedition, crushing it like an aluminum can.

While other officers attempted to shoot at the undercarriage, Officer Trainor climbed onto the bulldozer, which intentionally had been covered in grease.

"I was thinking he had some kind of a portal to get into the thing and that I would be able to open that and take him out at that point," Trainor said. "He had totally welded the top of it shut."

Having abandoned his M-14 rifle to climb onto the bulldozer, Trainor used his .40-caliber semi-automatic service weapon to shoot into what he believed to be vents and view portals, expending all 37 rounds.

As he struggled to maintain a foothold, the bulldozer crashed into the front wall of Mountain Parks Electric, the local utility company, and then rumbled up the hill on Zero Street toward the Granby Town Hall.

"At some point, I found out who he was and knew that he had a long-standing dispute not only with the buildings he was tearing up but also the town of Granby. So I radioed ahead and told them to evacuate the building because I knew that's exactly where he was heading. And sure enough, we went there, and he just totally demolished it," Trainor said.

During that battering, Trainor spotted "a soft landing" and jumped off the vehicle.

Along with other officers, he then followed the bulldozer as it moved back down toward Agate Avenue, the town's main street, crashing into the 5- month-old Liberty Savings Bank and the Sky-Hi News before reaching the east end of town. Along the way, officers stuffed "flash-bangs" into the exhaust pipes and continued trying to disable the machine with their weapons.

Heemeyer, who had not been firing a huge military anti- personnel gun mounted on the bulldozer during the pursuit, started shooting when he spotted the giant tanks of Independent Gas, but was unable to get them to explode.

One local offered authorities his own .50-caliber bolt-action rifle, but six rounds failed to adequately penetrate the armor, which Trainor described as being at least a half-inch thick. SWAT team members attempted to use a town plow as a barrier in another unsuccessful attempt to stop the vehicle.

Finally, the bulldozer rolled back west and plowed into Gambles hardware store, where it crashed partially through to the basement and was trapped by a county road grader.

Trainor heard a single shot from inside, but tactical officers were unable to open the cab even after blasting it with several rounds of explosives just before midnight.

He did all this over a $2500 zoning dispute? Awesome.