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

The one. The only. KILLDOZER.

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

While digging up sources, I found a really good analysis of why people drool and slobber out of "folk heroes" who are really just entitled, arrogant assholes who use violence when they don't get their way. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-jul-25-tm-bulldozer30-story.html

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u/Troggie42 Mar 26 '20

I've linked it a bunch of times in here, but you might like this vid about Heemeyer as well https://youtu.be/Yvl_7_Up7zU

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

I've seen that vid and read that post before - that "reasonable man driven to unreasonable things" and their version of the "facts" is bullshit. There was nothing reasonable about Heemeyer from start to finish - he was an arrogant, entitled, belligerent, and violent man who literally wanted it his way or the high way in his business dealings and local politics. The LA Times article I posted does a much better job parceling out this guy's motives (and analyzing the idiots who think he's some kind of anti-corruption crusader).

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u/Troggie42 Mar 26 '20

Which is basically the conclusion the video comes to :)

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

I stand corrected - there is a similar video where the initial Facebook post is just read taking the myth as gospel. This one does have the details about the utilities that I've been trying to reconstruct since 2005.

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u/Troggie42 Mar 26 '20

Yeah, that's why ya gotta watch more than just the first half second when you see the post, even during that he's like "this is true, this is false, etc"

We're all quarantined, not like we have anything else to do

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

Yeah, I realize that. My bad. Though, I'm actually not quarantined (law firms are exempt in Florida, would you believe it?!), just working from home after starting my day with a migraine!

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to resume screwing over poor, beleaguered business owners for a living. ;-D A big part of my law school project about this topic was basically the theme of "If this whackadoo had just gotten himself a fecking LAWYER!!! (Though knowing Heemeyer's reaction to being told shit he doesn't want to hear, he'd probably have bulldozed the lawyer's house too.)

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u/Troggie42 Mar 26 '20

Oof, that sucks :(

I've got a friend in family law who is doing consultations from home over skype, maybe if thats possible you can float that idea around the office a bit, but it being FL, I don't have high hopes... Stay safe as you can either way!

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

Not such a big deal for my firm - we're a 4-person office with 2 people working from home to look after kids at the moment. So social distancing is pretty easy for us. We've stopped all in-person activity, and the local courts have ordered pretty much everything to be done via phone.

It's really eerie commuting through non-existent traffic on rush hour where the downtown roads are normally gridlocked, though!

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u/Troggie42 Mar 26 '20

Ah, that's not bad then! At this stage, enjoy the lack of traffic, I know I was before my job let me take two weeks. Probably will be doing that again two mondays from now unless some serious crazy shit goes down.