Now if only we can aim the “killdozer crazies” at the right targets.
Mad Marv Rides Again!
Submitted 3 weeks ago by 
Grumpus_Maximus@thelemmy.club to historymemes@piefed.social
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SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
tio_bira@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Would be nice to have a Killdozer II The Data Center Entropy
chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Decentralize the data center!
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ooh I was never part of the donoeat patreon so I haven’t seen this yet. Has Well There’s Your Problem done a killdozer episode yet? It’d fit in with their other bonus episodes.
(When is the next episode of Franklin coming out Rocz???)
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
All things considered, he succeeded in his goals.
The concrete plant was under insured and so his “rival” that owned it ended up eating a few hundred thousand dollars in damages.
Still a complete lunatic, but a competent one as well.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Didn’t even put them out of business?
oats@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
New cybertruck looks wild
PugJesus@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
As long as we all remember that this guy was an actual lunatic, and not some normal guy pushed too far
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer#Dispute
In 1992, Heemeyer purchased two acres (0.8 ha) of land for $42,000 (equivalent to $96,360 in 2025) at auction with plans to lease the property to a friend who intended to build an auto repair shop on the site. Present at the auction was Cody Docheff, whose family had previously owned the property. Heemeyer claimed that Docheff had berated him for several minutes afterward out of anger towards losing the property; however, no other party present recalled any such interaction.[9]
The property had a rudimentary sewage storage solution in the form of a buried cement mixer left by the previous owners.[9] The cost to update the sewer system would be nearly double the $42,000 Heemeyer paid for the property.
City officials told Heemeyer that putting in a septic tank was a less expensive alternative, but he rejected both options and said that the government not paying for the sewage line hookup was “extortion by government fiat”. Despite these setbacks, he did not withdraw his annexation request and subsequently became part of the sewer district.[9]
By 1993, Heemeyer had abandoned plans to rent the property to a friend and instead opened a muffler repair shop on the grounds.[9] According to Heemeyer, his friend had lost interest in the property in around April 1992 because of oil spills and environmental issues.[13]
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things
nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago Ole Marv was not reasonable.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
How was killing himself over a more than fair deal reasonable?
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
He killed himself with style.
PugJesus@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The actual story: “Sometimes unreasonable men must do unreasonable things”
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
He shot himself in the head after several million in property damage, with no injuries to others.
It changed nothing.
AFLYINTOASTER@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Currently you, me, and OP at 3 votes as of right now. That’s a minimum of 3 people still talking about this long after his death.
That’s change.
zener_diode@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Holy shit, this is what it looked like!? I saw the wikipedia article posted recently, and was wondering if there where any pictures.
The article only specifies “makeshift composite armor plating”, which made me think it was just some steel plates.
But no wonder over 200 rounds of ammunition and three explosions had no effect. No wonder they briefly considered using an airstrike or an anti-tank missile to stop it.
It also looks to me like he was always planning to die inside, I don’t see any way to get the shell off again.
Once the armor was lowered onto the dozer, there was no way out. He knew it was a suicide mission.