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2004-06-07 -Short Attention Span Theater-

I take the wekend off and look what happens

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Posted by Steve 2004-06-07 11:15:22 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 . . .events that unfolded a day earlier when an armored bulldozer began knocking down buildings in town.

That Marvin Heemeyer was kidnapped and forced by the bulldozer to ride inside while the BULLDOZER went on a rampage. Logically how could they know for sure he killed himself? Maybe the bulldozer killed him with the shotgun?

The anti-SUV crowd is now attacking bulldozers as a menace.

It should have said : Marvin Heemeyer, 52, upset over a zoning dispute, drove an armored plated bulldozer into several buildings and knocked them down in Granby, Colorado, before taking his own life.

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-07 11:52:44 AM|| 2004-06-07 11:52:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh where is St. Pancake when we need her?

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-06-07 11:54:58 AM|| 2004-06-07 11:54:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 It's Killdozer!

An earlier report said that the weight of the bulldozer collapsed the floor of the hardware store, so that it fell into the basement. Ain't no way out from there.

The earlier report also made Ian Daugherty out to be a lot more sympathetic to Heemeyer than this story makes out.

A reverse 911 call? What the hell? What kind of emergencies do they get in Granby, anyway?

Posted by Angie Schultz 2004-06-07 12:09:23 PM|| [http://darkblogules.blogspot.com] 2004-06-07 12:09:23 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Well, this goes beyond just having "issues"; sounds like a lifetime subscription and a complete set of back copies, neatly bound and indexed...

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2004-06-07 12:32:34 PM|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2004-06-07 12:32:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "A new market for TOW missiles! Exxxcellent!"
[/Monty Burns]

Posted by PBMcL 2004-06-07 12:59:51 PM|| 2004-06-07 12:59:51 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Well, this goes beyond just having "issues"; sounds like a lifetime subscription and a complete set of back copies, neatly bound and indexed...

Bwahahahahahahaha!!! Gotta remember that one for future use.

Looks like Colorado's having a hard time breaking their bulldozer habit.

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Alma still shaken by 1998 rampage that left ex-mayor dead.

By Brittany Anas

Denver Post Staff Writer

Friday's images of a man plowing through Granby businesses with a bulldozer were oddly similar to an incident that happened six years ago in a smaller Colorado mountain town.

Residents of Alma, in Park County southwest of Denver, are still rattled over what caused town native Thomas Leask to go on a deadly bulldozer rampage in February 1998.

Unlike the rampage in Granby, Leask claimed a victim. He shot a former mayor of Alma, Willie Morrison, to death and plowed into the town hall, fire station, post office and water-treatment facility, claiming he was following God's orders.

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-07 1:22:52 PM|| 2004-06-07 1:22:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Sgt. Mom: LOL!

If old Marvin was once jilted by a girl named Rachel, I don't want to know about it.

Posted by Mike 2004-06-07 1:25:10 PM|| 2004-06-07 1:25:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 remember the mbt-60 tank in san diego about a decade or so ago......

Posted by Dan 2004-06-07 1:44:07 PM|| 2004-06-07 1:44:07 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Armored bulldozers...why do they hate us?

Posted by Dar 2004-06-07 1:46:50 PM|| 2004-06-07 1:46:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 #1 Logically how could they know for sure he killed himself?
Logically, when the deputy sheriff sat atop the killdozer (thanks Angie) and fired several clips of 45 cal or 9mm rounds through a hole in the roof that should have finished off ole Marv. Can you imagine how those things must have ricocheted throughout the inside of that cat?
Channel 4 out of Denver showed the deputy firing his weapon as part of their live coverage.

Posted by GK 2004-06-07 1:51:15 PM|| 2004-06-07 1:51:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 they had clips on the local news here in Denver - he gave a tour of it some time back. In it he had a .50 cal rifle, several other rifles and a pistol. The news also showed him plowing down the town with the cops in an "OJ" slow persuit behind him. It was crazy.

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2004-06-07 2:06:43 PM|| 2004-06-07 2:06:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Damn, I ant to see that! Coverage on the major news channels were all over Reagans funeral.

This makes me wonder two things: 1, where the hell did he get a C9 bulldozer? Those things cost a lot of money. 2, what's his affiliation too ANSWER? It's very unlikely he just "randomly" decided to take down Corporation buildings with the IDF's choice pancake maker.

Posted by Charles 2004-06-07 3:21:03 PM|| 2004-06-07 3:21:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 The son of a bitch took out a LIBRARY?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2004-06-07 3:52:29 PM|| 2004-06-07 3:52:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 The son of a bitch took out a LIBRARY?

Yeah, those overdue charges on that "Make Heavy Armor in the Privacy of Your Own Home" reference book are what finally tripped his trigger.

Posted by Zenster 2004-06-07 4:03:42 PM|| 2004-06-07 4:03:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 ROFL, Sgt. Mom!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2004-06-07 5:17:25 PM|| 2004-06-07 5:17:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Say what you want about his mental condition, but some part of his brain was working pretty well.

1/2 in steel plate with 2 inches of concrete then another half inch steel plate. and a spall liner.

The guy made composite armor for his D9!!!

Posted by OldSpook 2004-06-07 9:03:09 PM|| 2004-06-07 9:03:09 PM|| Front Page Top

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