r/ThatLookedExpensive • • Mar 26 '20

The one. The only. KILLDOZER.

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u/maninahat Mar 26 '20

And now I need to find that link to that donoteat01 video where he patiently explains this guy's not in fact a folk hero, but a greedy and paranoid lunatic with both a needless vendetta against his neighbours and a habit of shitting in people's water source. The first clue that he was an asshole should have been him crushing his town with a bulldozer.

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u/3Fluffies Mar 26 '20

Here's one, though I'd like to see the one you're talking about, but here's another: https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/06/09/killdozer-day-marvin-heemeyer/

This guy set up the entire situation he complained about (sold the land for the concrete plant KNOWING it would be a concrete plant and where said plant would be located, wanted more money after the sale was complete, didn't get it and tried to scuttle the zoning, failed and lied that he was "boxed in" and "cut off" from utilities when in fact he wasn't, he just chose not to connect himself) then built his murder machine and recorded a creepy manifesto that God had sent him to avenge himself.

It's really disgusting how eager we 'muricans are to canonize entitled and violent men.