Monday, June 07, 2004

Man gets pissed off, demolishes town

Police move in to arrest the dead man

If this wasn’t so obviously devastating to the town concerned, it’d be absolutely hilarious. Oh, wait: it is absolutely hilarious! :o)

GRANBY, COLORADO — Friends said Marvin Heemeyer hadn’t been seen much lately, and now they know why: he was turning a bulldozer into an armor–plated vehicle.

A vehicle weighing 53 tons and encased in foot–thick reinforced plating, to be exact.

He’d got pissed off about his business taking a turn for the worse, had feuds going with quite a few people in the little town. And then the last straw: this builder (don’t mess with builders!) had a snowmobile (pretty essential in that town, I gather) and it broke down.

And what happened? He’s dead. The police found him like that, inside his vehicle with his stash of guns.

It only took them about nine hours to open the door.

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