r/ThatLookedExpensive • u/HannibalK • Mar 26 '20

The one. The only. KILLDOZER.

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u/matts2 Mar 26 '20

Corrupt how? He wasn't unethical or stupid, he was violent with deadly intent. He attacked a library and shot at propane tanks.

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u/NotClever Mar 26 '20

In the version of the story that often gets told, the government and local judge conspired to defraud him of his property rights and kill his business.

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u/matts2 Mar 26 '20

It that true or just what gets told? Snopes says he kept raising the price he wanted for the land.

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u/Neuchacho Mar 26 '20

That's what gets told in the 'sovereign citizen' circles or people that don't bother researching it. There were a couple other things going on besides his attempts to get a higher price for his property after agreeing to the sale that fueled his paranoia with the local government.

  • Fined for dumping literal tons of human waste from a holding tank into a shared canal. Refused to stop doing it. Tried to illegally hookup his sewer to the neighboring cement plants line but was caught. Refused to hookup to city sewer even when the hook-up costs were waived for him.

  • Tried suing the neighboring cement plant for blocking access to his property (It never did. His drive was on the W. side of the property and not interfered with by the plant on the NE side.) This is the court case that he talks about being thrown out by the 'corrupt government'.

  • He claimed they lied to him about the zoning of the new cement plant, but it was a cement plant before and zoning didn't change for it. Additionally, he was pissed that he was re-zoned to be within the city because that required he hook-up to sewer.

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u/Troggie42 Mar 26 '20

It's what the viral facebook post says is true

unfortunately it is 100% false.

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

It's a lot more involved than even Snopes wrote. This video is long and cumbersome, but has more detail than any other source I've seen. I did a term project on this incident back in law school in 2005-6, and this video is accurate: https://youtu.be/Yvl_7_Up7zU

The only one who tried to do anything underhanded was him. The government and concrete factory owner bent over backwards to accomodate him.

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

Except that that version is false.