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“The Rural Postman.” Jean Marc Côté, 1899.


We really have a thing for flight.

Advance Sentinel in a Helicopter.” Jean Marc Côté, 1899

Lord how this world improves as we grow older,” “The March of Intellect.” William Heath, 1828.

While Poe imagined hot air balloons travelling to the moon, others predicted more mundane uses such as floating street lights from the year 2000. “Guesses at Futurity” Fred Jane, Pall Mall magazine, 1894

Taking a romantic evening ride in a personal flying fish vehicle over Paris. A police station is on hand to deal with double parking and jaywalkers. “Paris la Nuit.” Albert Robida.

Early futurist artists filled their skies with flying devices of varying size and purpose. Writer and illustrator Albert Robida envisioned a time of personal flying machines used for jaunts to the opera, airships for public transport, and even luxurious floating casinos.

budaatum:
Depressed! In case you don't already know.

What are you tired of and what are you doing about it?

I'm fine bud ! All good here ...

budaatum:
Are you aware you are describing depression?

Are you depressed?

l am just really Tired buda

It’s hard to say whether Marvin Heemeyer intended to end any lives other than his own that day. So defining him as a hero or a villain can be a murky undertaking if that’s what you think delineates the two. All told, his rampage caused more than seven million dollars worth of damage to structures and vehicles in the community. Though, in the minds of some, every bit of it was warranted.




Today, Heemeyer has a devout following in anti-government online communities. They see his story as one part hero’s journey and one-part cautionary tale. The story of a man who was pushed so far that he chose to push back, even at the cost of his own life. Other circles, however, see him as a troubled man who chose to turn to violence when life didn’t go his way.

“I’ve seen that the way people have venerated Marv and praised him after the fact, without even really knowing what happened or the facts of the situation, has been repeated in many other rampages and tragedies in America since then,” said Patrick Brower, an editor who worked in the newspaper office Heemeyer destroyed.

“How many people lose petty zoning fights with government in America? Everybody, all the time. That’s not an excuse to go out and tear the town to pieces and shoot at people,” Brower said.

Ultimately, Heemeyer, it seems, saw himself as the hero that elements of the internet make him out to be. Yet, some within his community, particularly those victimized by the “Killdozer” rampage, recall him as a broken man who took out his woes on the community at large. How do you see himThough?

Marvin Heemeyer Meets His End

Heemeyer went on to destroy the library and a number of other buildings. The library had been occupied by a children’s group until it was evacuated by police minutes before Heemeyer’s arrival. His rampage claimed 13 buildings. But then, a puncture in the “Killdozer’s” radiator, combined with a track that got stuck while he was destroying the basement of the Gambles hardware store, rendered the vehicle immobile. As police descended on the vehicle, they heard a single gunshot from inside the cabin: Heemeyer had shot himself.

Explosives proved unable to penetrate the vehicle’s armor. So, law enforcement had to employ an oxy-acetylene cutting torch to get through the armor and retrieve Heemeyer’s body.

No one, aside from Heemeyer, died that day. Yet, police say they have nothing but luck to thank for that. Heemeyer reportedly shot police vehicles and even propane tanks. Had a tank been ruptured, the threat posed to nearby civilians would have been serious. The same would be true if police hadn’t used the community’s 911 system to reverse-call residents and warn them of the impending danger. According to reports, journalists in the newspaper office that Heemeyer destroyed were still fleeing the building out the back door as he came through the front wall.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZbG9i1oGPA

Police fired on the vehicle throughout. They first looked for gaps in the armor and then attempted to take out the cameras. But the bullet-proof plastic proved to be too much for the officers’ pistols. At one point, Sheriff’s Deputy Glenn Trainor even climbed aboard the vehicle riding it like in a scene out of an action movie as he looked for a gap in the armor that he could drop a flash-bang grenade through or even find a clear shot to the driver. He had to give up in order to avoid getting injured by debris as the vehicle crashed through buildings.

The Events of the Fateful Day Unfold

On June 4, 2004, Heemeyer was ready. He climbed inside his bulldozer, used a remote to lower the armored shell down into place, and fired up the beast. Then, he drove it directly through the wall of his former shop (from which he was still operating). From there, he drove directly into and through the concrete plant across the way, before setting off into town.

Once there, he destroyed the Town Hall, the office of a local newspaper (Sky-Hi News) which had published a number of editorials critical of his side of the zoning dispute, and the home of the former mayor who had been involved at the onset of Heemeyer’s dispute. One should acknowledge, however, that the mayor had already died and the house’s only occupant was his elderly widow.

Of course he didn't go down in history books , even I had to go a bit deep to find this one , enjoy

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The name Marvin Heemeyer may not ring a bell in the minds of many. For the first 52 years of his life, Heemeyer went by his given name and made a living as a welder and muffler repair man. But early in 2003, something changed that pushed Heemeyer into a new life, one that would garner him a more ominous (and melodramatic) name that may sound familiar to anyone with a
The complex tale of Colorado’s ‘Killdozer’
The name Marvin Heemeyer may not ring a bell in the minds of many. For the first 52 years of his life, Heemeyer went by his given name and made a living as a welder and muffler repair man. But early in 2003, something changed that pushed Heemeyer into a new life, one that would garner him a more ominous (and melodramatic) name that may sound familiar to anyone with a YouTube account: “Killdozer.”

Websites, social media groups, and online forums have, in the years since the Killdozer’s 2004 rampage, depicted Heemeyer as a blue-collar folk hero — a man who rose up against the wealthy and the powerful; a modern David who built his own Goliath. These believers tout claims that Heemeyer’s armored-rampage claimed no lives because the man sought only retribution against the property of those who wronged him, but police tell a very different story. According to law enforcement, it was sheer luck that saved lives during the Killdozer’s rampage, a tear through town in a specially modified bulldozer that destroyed more than a dozen buildings.

In the early 1990s, Heemeyer moved into Grand Lake, Colorado, bought a few acres of land for $42,000, and opened his own muffler repair shop. He was widely regarded as a fairly jovial, blue-collar guy, working on the land he bought to make a living with his own two hands as people in rural Colorado communities tend to do. That is, until he ran into a zoning dispute with the town government.

Folk hero or real villain? The complex tale of Colorado's 'Killdozer'
Marvin Heemeyer (WikiMedia Commons)
After ten years of operating his business on the two-acre patch of land Heemeyer purchased in 1992, plans were approved to build a massive concrete plant just at the edge of his property. This plan proved to be a serious issue for Heemeyer, as the only access road to his business crossed directly through the planned concrete factory, meaning neither he, nor any customers, would have street access to his business.

This is where the legend of the Killdozer tends to part ways with reality in some accounts. Those who prefer to paint Heemeyer purely as the wronged party jump directly to the town zoning commission’s 2001 decision to authorize the concrete plant’s construction. Heemeyer appealed that decision, claiming it would block access to his existing business, but his appeal was denied. Soon after that interaction, Heemeyer was hit with a series of fines totaling around $2,500. The fines were levied for violations that included “junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line.” The sewer line infraction was particularly offensive to Heemeyer as he apparently could not get access to sewer lines without crossing over eight feet of the concrete plant’s property.


This all sounds like a small business owner getting muscled out by a town zoning commission and big business (and there may be some truth to that narrative), but Heemeyer also found himself trapped on that two-acre plot of land through his own lack of foresight and, some could argue, greed. Prior to that zoning decision, Heemeyer entered into an agreement with the company that owned the land for the proposed concrete plant: they would pay him $250,000 for his two acres of land, allowing him a tidy profit over his $42,000 purchase and enough money to set up shop somewhere new.

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However, Heemeyer soon backed out of that deal, upping his demand to $375,000, based, one can assume, on the idea that the concrete plant would have to agree to his demands. Heemeyer soon upped the ante again, reportedly demanding a deal worth as much as a million dollars to get him to leave his two-acre plot. At that point, many contend, the concrete plant opted to simply pursue its zoning rights and stop trying to deal with Heemeyer.

“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable”, Heemeyer wrote. “Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”

Whether you think Heemeyer was screwed over by the government or not, there’s no debating that he was certain that he was. He first leased his business to a different company before selling the property outright to a third party, using the proceeds to begin custom modifications to his Komatsu D355A bulldozer. Over the next 18 months, Heemeyer would build makeshift armor plating that housed the bulldozer’s cabin, engine, and even parts of its tracks. Using a combination of sheets of “tool steel” and 5000 psi Quikrete (concrete) to create the armor, some portions of the bulldozer sat behind more than a foot of protection, rendering the vehicle all but impervious to small arms fire, and as the police would find, even small explosives.

Heemeyer installed monitors inside the protected cabin that were wired to cameras he placed around the exterior of the armored bulldozer. He then enclosed those cameras inside three inches of bullet resistant plastic to ensure law enforcement couldn’t shoot them out. Inside their bullet-proof cases, Heemeyer added air jets to blow dust off the camera lenses.

Inside the cabin, he included fans and an air conditioning system as well as three gun turrets: one for a .50 caliber rifle, one for a semi-automatic .308, and one for a .22 LR rifle.

Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the setup, however, wasn’t its ability to absorb or dish out punishment, but rather its permanence once Heemeyer was inside. The armored shell had to be lowered down onto the vehicle using a custom crane he’d built, and once he was inside, there was no way to get back out. Heemeyer, it seems, spent a solid year and a half planning his own suicide mission, compiling a list of buildings and people he’d target before he was through.


“I think God will bless me to get the machine done, to drive it, to do the stuff that I have to do,” he said. “God blessed me in advance for the task that I am about to undertake. It is my duty. God has asked me to do this. It’s a cross that I am going to carry and I’m carrying it in God’s name.”

Kate98:
My height is 5'3. But I don't weigh that much (56) but look like 60-62 kgs. My BMI is 23. What is the reason? Why do I look fat?(

(pic in my profile)

you are not fat you are big , your ansestors we’re probably great minds of physical and mental strengths ,
Just look beyond the modern human distracting tags to weights

blaquebelle:
Hello. Have you seen OurTruth's posts on Nl, do you think his theory is in line with your belief?

https://www.nairaland.com/7122201/there-no-heaven-hell-what

yes somewhat as he avoided conspiracy theories , but still there is a lot to unlearn , his theory or reincarnation though is really falsely based , I used to be one myself, he is finding his path yes , but sonner he will know it’s all a facade the whole thing , I wish I could speak with him on a more personal level though

Epositive:

how’s your morning so far

OsilaGama:
yes

Rick and Morty corefanbase

Interesting Topic too , will tag you when i do

starbuck:
TheSourcerer

Morning Queen , wanted to text you yesterday...... you’ve got new number?

Dtruthspeaker:
Funny how you have the ability to bring it to yourself faster eg jumping in front of Dangote truck or drinking hypo and all but you choose to wait for it to come rather than you go to it.

Yet you claim you are not afraid to die. But you did not say that when you want to have sex with that girl. You did not wait for it to come.

We don’t wait for it or induce death , even when you jump in front of a truck , it is time , Que sera sera, Good morning bud!

starbuck:
In all honesty, I am praying that death come sooner
I am really tired

Don’t get tired , find fun in breathing , find fun I’m waking up, find fun in walking , don’t get tired darling , please don’t

Datboredberri:
No... But I'm not a hypocrite... Forget the gender war here on NL...

The lady has zero sense... If she thinks it's easy she should carry the guy out on a date... Let him order the 16k spaghetti and pay...

Split bills should be a norm...

Even if the guy is a multimillionaire... If he orders a light meal you don't order more...

What sorta confidence is that? Ordering an expensive meal for someone else to play... And you don't even know how much he earns...

Hello Queen!

NoQualmz:
Haha
Its past ur bedtime bro.

clinical insomanic so yeah , prescriptions don't do it anymore but thx.

starbuck:
In all honesty, I am praying that death come sooner
I am really tired

funny thing is it never would . well que Sera sera

NoQualmz:
Scared?
No.
They ain’t our mate bro

They have their abode in d transcendental..they see everything and luv to interfere greatly in our lives..either negatively or positively. In my own case,the positivity far outweighs the negatives.

I feel them
I smell them
I commune with them when in a fix

Amai making sense bro?

Definitely, so wyd?

NoQualmz:
No

There’s no supreme being.

Rather I believe there are cocoon of beings that controls and directs everything;

if there were ,are they scared of we tiny humans that they are so invincible?

Sojourner2000:
Incorrect number bro

okay here
0901 712 3609


I was thinking we make a plea for something to be done about the fajol- eleweran road

Jeon:
both

Cool

In all honesty food taste like wood now, uninteresting
In all honesty My smiles and Smileys are routine .
In all honesty numbness is the only emotion I perceive
In all honesty Colours are no more bright
In all honesty the smiles of parents do no more worth the stay any longer
In all honesty pain is sane but the same
This is honesty not a poem ,its a note written in blood
In all honesty its not depression
In all honesty its not Sadness
In all honesty its not lack of love
In all honesty its not about having money or not having money
Its an emotion no one can explain unless its your emotion
In all honesty its sudden ,it grew .
In all honesty , I won the battle
It is now back , terribly overwhelming ,this already downtrodden beign
In all honesty I tried
Now I'm tired
Consciousness of your being is pain
Knowing is pain
Ignorance is truly bliss,
Death is bliss
I wish I never felt the first feeling
I wish I never saw the light



And really hope you enjoy your evening , the air is actually great , clean too , yum !

Jeon:
They won't because Nigerian men don't have good proportional body.... Only flat ass.

Flat buttocks a turn off or just unattractive

budaatum:
Sorry I missed your podcast.

it’s all good buddy we could both arrange one tonight though

jom28gy:
am not only talking about advice, but how will I rather join one,?

Which one ? You must have somebody you like his ways or parole or influence or just his clique?