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After suffering the indignity of getting the piss taken out of him by the local shire council, Marvin Heemeyer decided to modify a bulldozer into a lethal “Killdozer” and go on a rampage in Granby, Colorado.
While any other corporate johnny or PAYG wage slave would’ve just accepted that and got on with their miserable existence, Mr Heemeyer had simply had enough.
He went home on that summer afternoon in 2004 and welded armoured plates onto his Komatsu D355A bulldozer. He added a layer of concrete. Bulletproof plastic. Automatic weapons. He drove it through the town in a rampage, knocking down a dozen buildings and causing $7 million worth of damage.
Local man Nathan Daley reckons the older he gets, the more it makes sense to him.
The 35-year-old railway worker said he feels largely at odds with the political system and feels like it’s more of the same “bullshit” as he puts it.
“You know, as Pete Townsend once wrote, ‘Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,’ it just makes sense to me, mate,” he said.
“Like, how Albo was going to change it all, like, how he was going to make life better for battlers and all. Man, he going to give rich people a massive tax cut. Like, what the fuck do you even stand for?”
When asked what it is especially about the Killdozer Rampage that he understands, Mr Daley said it was “the whole thing”.
“Like, how you can push a hardworking bloke to the point where he just breaks, you know? Like I understand the frustrations of the bloke, like it’s not like I’m about to go on a rampage myself, even though it’d be piss funny but like, I just understand it, man,”
“Plus, I’d be lying if I haven’t daydreamed about running Mayor Keith Carton over in a D6. Like, it’d sound like a mattress covered in eggshells being crushed. Keith’s screams as the tracks cut up his legs, nice and slow, then the silence when I get to his thorax, yeah. Nah, I’m not a sicko,”
“But like, I understand why a bloke would go mad and destroy a bunch of stuff. You know. It’s a bloke thing.”
More to come.
