re: Happy Killdozer Day

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Probably not a good idea to agitate someone you believe to be an unhinged lunatic who is just keeping to himself and not bothering anybody.

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The dude, and everyone who ever lived or worked at his property, shite and pissed into an old, rusty concrete mixer drum off of a concrete truck. When it would get full, and it didn't take all that long, ol' Marv would hook up to it, haul it away from his property, and find a ditch somewhere to dump it in. I'm sure that bothered no one, though.

He could build the killdozer, but couldn't figure out how to rig up a septic tank. That figures.

Killdozer

Well Marvin was a welder, just a humble working man,
In Granby, Colorado, where he’d make his final stand,
So now I’ll tell his tale so heed the lesson that he brings
“Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things”

Killdozer! Killdo-o-ozer!
You know sometimes a man he just refuses to surrender
Killdozer! Killdo-o-ozer!
when you mess with such a man he’ll give you something to remember

He owned a couple acres and a shop to make repairs,
Not a man to wrong another without cause,’
But some bureaucrats decided that he wasn’t good enough,
And so they destroyed his livelihood with laws,

They had finished Marvin’s business,
Left him no way in or out,
By the red tape one more common man screwed over,
But inside Heemeyer spied unfinished business of his own,
When with vengeance on his mind he eyed his Dozer

Killdozer! Killdo-o-ozer!
You know sometimes a man he just refuses to surrender
Killdozer! Killdo-o-ozer!
when you mess with such a man he’ll give you something to remember

For 18 months he built it,
Cement sandwiched within steel,
A cocoon of revenge filled with screens and guns,
With an armor plated engine,
This behemoth with a blade,
When complete it weighed in over 60 tons

On fourth of June he climbed into his tomb,
And sealed it shut,
Greased the sides so none could climb this beast of metal,
There was no door, created for it,
He just smashed right through the walls,
His legend roared as to the floor he pushed the pedal,

Killdozer! Killdo-o-ozer!
You know sometimes a man he just refuses to surrender
Killdozer! Killdo-o-ozer!
when you mess with such a man he’ll give you something to remember

The plant that caused it all, was first to fall, and the the town hall,
Then the dens of all the men who’d done him wrong,
When the cops, they tried to stop it,
bombs and guns could not prevail,
They all failed for the Killdozer was too strong,

Bridge:
Then to challenge him in the road,
On a metal beast of his own,
Sat the man who had used the machine of state,
To take Heemeyer’s Land,
But Now Killdozer Stands,
Two Treads Driven By Fate



Banjos and fiddles duel

And though some may call him crazy,
Sometimes every normal man,
Feels the urge to hoist the black flag,
And put spit upon his hands,
In his defense,
No innocents,
Were harmed in his destruction,
He met his end,
Buried within,
A tomb of his construction,

So if you’re feeling small,
Then just recall, And give some thanks,
When they step upon the little man,
Somewhere killdozer cranks!,

Killdozer! Killdo-o-ozer!
You know sometimes a man he just refuses to surrender,
Killdozer! Killdo-o-o-ozer!
When you mess with such a man he’ll give you something to remember


“Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things”

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Never wondered why he didn’t sell his property to the local magnate for $250K when he had purchased it for $40K two years earlier.

All this would have been avoided…

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You're a coward.

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no one should be ganged up on by a bunch of local officials to benefit their friends.

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you just described almost every city/town in America, baw

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The 12 minute video that I guess you think is completely unbiased does not cover more than the 1.5 hour long documentaries.

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Because it has more people in it who wanted their 15 minutes of fame talking on camera right? That makes it more better. Got it.

Eta just saw the above post.

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but he put a lot of innocent people in harm's way that day and ended up being a fricking coward.

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Most people don't know that he was firing at huge propane tanks near a school, but his armor was in the line of fire just enough to deflect the bullets. If not for that one mistake, he'd likely have killed several people including children.


Initially I thought what he did was awesome because no one was harmed, but when you dig into what happened before and during the rampage, the guy was an a-hole.

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Most people don't know that he was firing at huge propane tanks near a school, but his armor was in the line of fire just enough to deflect the bullets. If not for that one mistake, he'd likely have killed several people including children.


Initially I thought what he did was awesome because no one was harmed, but when you dig into what happened before and during the rampage, the guy was an a-hole.

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It took a healthy dose of dumb luck on more than one occasion of his rampage to keep him from seriously hurting or killing someone.

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It took a healthy dose of dumb luck on more than one occasion of his rampage to keep him from seriously hurting or killing someone.

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Or intentional effort (which we can't verify happened) and detailed planning (which we know happened).

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He was also an air force vet. Hard to believe he had a 100% rate of no injuries just by pure accident.

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Ngl you might be retarded lol