Vengeance is mine. Ruins of the administration of the Mountain Park Inc cement plant

Marvin Heemeyer was a welder who owned a muffler repair shop in Granby. And Marvin was unlucky with his neighbors. The Mountain Park cement plant began to expand and actively buy up residents' land. The owners of the plant made a preliminary agreement with Heemeyer, but at the last moment he raised the price: from 250 thousand dollars, first to 375 thousand, and then to a million. Obviously, he didn't want to sell anything, but wanted to continue patching up mufflers.

At some point, the owners of the plant began to sue Heemeyer, trying to explain to justice that the plant brings goodness, justice and jobs to the city, and Heemeyer, who at 52 years old had neither a wife nor children, was not particularly needed by anyone. Then the plant bought up all the land around Marvin's property, and now no one could bring him a muffler for repairs. The plant cut off all his communications, including the sewerage system, and the city authorities quite rightly fined Biryuk for unsanitary conditions - he could not lay a pipe on someone else’s land.

Heemeyer struggled weakly for two years. His hour came on June 4, 2004. On this day, an armored bulldozer drove out onto the street.

Heemeyer was a real welder and a born engineer - or the plant management didn’t think of cutting his Internet cable. He took an ordinary bulldozer and welded an armored box for it. He calculated the armor with reserve. Each sheet consisted of two half-inch (12.7 mm) steel plates, between which there was a cement pad. His “tank” had only four holes - two loopholes in the front and two in the back. Already in the bulldozer, Heemeyer, using a homemade remote-controlled crane, lowered the armor box onto the bulldozer - he did not expect to get out of it. He had two rifles with him - one huge, .50 caliber (12.7 mm), the second a small hunting rifle, and a 357-caliber revolver. He carefully prepared: he had video cameras and monitors for review, and compressors were connected to the video cameras to clean them of dust.

Then everything was very scary. The bulldozer was moving slowly, but it was impossible to stop it. He destroyed the factory and went to the city, swept through the town hall, a bank, the office of a local newspaper that campaigned against him, the judge’s house (the judge himself had already died, but his widow lived in the house), and destroyed other buildings, thirteen in total.

Why do we think that 52-year-old redneck welder Marvin Heemeyer is the heir to 35-year-old tramp and madman John Rambo? They were both brought down by the people of a small town who put the common good above individual rights. They both went crazy and reacted in ways they probably shouldn't have reacted. They both did everything to avoid killing anyone: all the deaths in the film “First Blood” are accidental, and Heemeyer didn’t even scratch anyone at all: he continuously fired from his artillery, but only over their heads, to scare off the cops. The sheriff and his deputies could not cope with both of them, and the National Guard had to be called.

And just like Rambo, no one could stop Heemeyer. The bulldozer got stuck when Heemeyer tried to demolish the supermarket, but they couldn't get Marvin out. He shot back for a while, then stopped. Then the police brought an autogen gun and opened the bulldozer in which Marvin Heemeyer was lying dead: he shot himself.

Spontaneous anarchists of all stripes immediately demanded that a monument be erected to him in his homeland - an armored bulldozer would have been perfect for this role. Neither the authorities nor the local residents, of course, even considered this option - the bulldozer, along with the armor, was sold for scrap metal, to several different collection points and with all precautions taken so that the scraps of the vengeance tank were not stolen for souvenirs.

Local residents refused to consider Rambo-Heemeyer a hero. Firstly, not everyone believed that he really did everything to avoid hurting anyone. There were people in the buildings that he demolished, and only the low speed of the bulldozer and the prompt actions of the sheriff - for example, the timely evacuation of the population - made it possible to avoid casualties. Children were studying in the town hall library, which Heemeyer destroyed. The vigilante shot at National Guardsmen and a cement plant owner who tried to stop a bulldozer. In addition, he tried to explode liquefied gas cylinders with shots; if he had succeeded, the police and residents of the surrounding houses would have died.

The hero in this situation was Deputy Sheriff Glen Trainer, who at some point jumped on the bulldozer and tried to find some hole to shoot at it and stop the monster. In particular, he shot at the exhaust pipe on the roof and even threw a grenade there. The grenade was a flash-noise grenade and did not cause any harm to the bulldozer.

Heemeyer did not kill anyone, but caused, according to various estimates, $4-5 million in damage. The plant then closed and sold the land it had bought with such difficulty. The town collected money for restoration by subscription, but without new jobs, taxes and gifts from the proposed city-forming enterprise. No one even discussed the idea of making the city a place of tourist pilgrimage for anarchists and displaying Heemeyer’s bulldozer in the main square.

But, on the other hand, John James Rambo was unlikely to be very popular in the city of Hope, and certainly no one would use the ruins of a sporting weapons store, blown up by a Green Beret gone crazy, as a local landmark.

Territorial disputes

In 2001, the zoning commission and city officials approved the construction of a cement plant. Heemeyer tried unsuccessfully to appeal the decision. For many years, Heemeyer used the adjacent property as a driveway for his own auto muffler repair and sales shop. The expansion of the cement plant deprived him of this opportunity. In addition, the city fined Heemeyer $2,500 for various violations, including “sewage containers on the property that are not connected to a sewer system.” Heemeyer would have needed to cross 2.4 meters of factory ground to make such a connection.

Bulldozer modifications

Heemeyer leased his business and property to a waste removal company several months before the events. Two years before, he purchased a bulldozer in order to use it to build a road to the store, but the city authorities did not allow him to build the road.

It took a year and a half to prepare the bulldozer. In notes later found by investigators, Heemeyer wrote: “I wonder how I haven’t been caught yet. The project occupied part of my time for more than a year and a half." He was surprised that none of his visitors found the bulldozer’s changes strange, “especially with its weight increasing by 910 kg.”

The bulldozer in question is a tracked Komatsu D355A with an armored cab. In some places, the thickness of the armor reached more than 30 centimeters; it consisted of several layers of steel sheets and cement and was a combined armor. It provided protection from small arms fire and explosives. Three explosions and more than 200 bullets fired at the bulldozer caused virtually no damage to it.

Heemeyer's Revenge

Heemeyer bulldozer

On June 4, 2004, Heemeyer drove his armored dozer through the wall of his store, then through a cement plant, Town Hall, a local newspaper office, the home of a former judge's widow, and others. The owners of all the damaged buildings were in one way or another connected with disputes over land owned by Heemeyer.

Heemeyer destroyed 13 buildings, with total damage estimated at more than $7 million. Despite the enormous destruction of property, no one except Heemeyer was physically harmed.

Many city residents were notified by the authorities about what was happening and were able to evacuate in advance. There were people in 11 of the 13 buildings demolished by Heemeyer until the last moment.

There was such a man with capital letters, named Marvin John Heemeyer.

He worked as a welder, repairing car mufflers in the town of Granby, Colorado. The town is microscopic, 2200 inhabitants. He had a workshop there, with a store. As I understand, land plot he officially bought under this workshop for quite a lot of money at an auction (something like $15,000, for this he sold his share in a large car service center in Denver).
He also built snowmobiles as a hobby and used them to ride newlyweds around Granby in the winter. Like in a limousine. He even had the appropriate license (I never suspected that such activities could be licensed at all). In my opinion, the guy was quite good-natured and extremely funny. However, “While many people described Heemeyer as a likeable guy, others said he was not someone to cross.” At one time he served in the Air Force as an airfield technician, and since then he has worked steadily in the engineering and technical field.He lived to be fifty-two years old, unmarried (he had some kind of sad love story at one time).

Heemeyer, a fifty-two-year-old welder, lived in Granby for several years repairing car mufflers. His small workshop was closely adjacent to the Mountain Park cement plant. To the dismay of Heemeyer and other neighbors of the plant, Mountain Park decided to expand, forcing them to sell their land.

Sooner or later, all the plant's neighbors surrendered, but not Heemeyer.

The manufacturers were never able to acquire his land, although they tried to do so by hook or by crook. In general, despairing of resolving the issue culturally, they began to persecute the man. Since all the land around the workshop already belonged to the plant, all communications and access to the house were blocked. Marvin decided to pave a different road, and even bought a decommissioned Komatsu D355A-3 bulldozer for this purpose and restored the engine on it in his workshop.

The city administration refused permission to build a new road. The bank found fault with the mortgage loan and threatened to take away the house.

Heemeyer tried to restore justice by suing Mountain Park, but lost the lawsuit.

The tax office visited several times for taxes retail, fire inspection, sanitary and epidemiological supervision, the latter issued a fine of $ 2,500 for the enchanting “junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line” (in general, in his workshop “there was a tank that did not meet sanitary standards.”) speech, let me remind you , was about an auto repair shop. Marvin could not connect to the sewer system, since the land on which the ditch should be dug also belonged to the plant and the plant was in no hurry to give him such permission. Marvin paid. Attaching a short note to the receipt when sending - “Cowards”. After some time, his father died (Mar. 31, 2004), Marvin went to bury him, and while he was away, his electricity and water were turned off and his workshop was sealed. After that, he locked himself in the workshop. Almost no one saw him.

The creation of the Armored Bulldozer took about two months, according to some reports, and about a year and a half, according to others... She covered it with twelve-millimeter steel sheets, laid with a centimeter layer of cement. Equipped with television cameras that display images on monitors inside the cabin. I equipped the cameras with lens cleaning systems in case they were blinded by dust and debris. Prudent Marvin stocked up on food, water, ammunition and a gas mask. (Two Ruger 223s and one Remington 306 with ammo.) With remote control lowered the armored box onto the chassis, locking himself inside. To lower this shell onto the bulldozer cabin, Heemeyer used a homemade crane. “By lowering it, Heemeyer understood that after that he would no longer be able to get out of the car,” police experts said. And at 14:30 I left the garage.

Marvin made a list of goals in advance. Everyone whom he considered necessary to take revenge on.
“Sometimes, as he put it in his notes, reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
To begin with, he drove through the territory of the plant, carefully demolishing the plant's management building, production workshops and, in general, everything down to the last barn.

Then he moved around the town. He removed the facades from the houses of city council members. Demolished the bank building, which tried to press him through early repayment of the mortgage loan. He destroyed the buildings of the gas company Ixel Energy, which refused to refill his kitchen gas cylinders after a fine, the city hall, the city council office, the fire department, a warehouse, and several residential buildings that belonged to the mayor of the city. He tore down the editorial office of the local newspaper and public library In short, he demolished everything that had anything to do with the local authorities, including their private houses. Moreover, he showed good knowledge of who owns what.

They tried to stop Heemeyer. First, the local sheriff and his assistants. Let me remind you that the bulldozer was equipped with centimeter spaced armor. Local police used nine-point revolvers and shotguns. With a clear result. From zero. The local SWAT team was alerted. Then the forest rangers. SWAT found grenades, and the rangers had assault rifles. A particularly dashing sergeant jumped from the roof onto the hood of a bulldozer and tried to throw a flashbang grenade into the exhaust pipe. It’s hard to say what he wanted to achieve - the son of a bitch Heemeyer, as it turned out, welded a grate there, so the only thing the bulldozer lost as a result was the pipes themselves. The sergeant, of course, also survived. The driver's tear tracker didn't take it - the monitors were visible even in the gas mask.

Heemeyer actively fired back through the embrasures cut into the armor. Not a single person was harmed by its fire. Because he shot significantly higher than his head. In other words, into the sky. However, the police no longer dared to approach him. In total, counting the rangers, about 40 people had gathered by that time. The bulldozer took more than 200 hits from everything from service revolvers to M-16s and grenades. They tried to stop him with a huge scraper. The Komatsu D355A easily pushed the scraper backwards into the front of the store and left it there. A car full of explosives in Heemeyer’s path also did not give the desired result. The only achievement was a radiator punctured by a ricochet - however, as experience in quarry work shows, such bulldozers do not immediately pay attention to even a complete failure of the cooling system.

All that the police could really do in the end was to evacuate 1.5 thousand residents and block all roads, including Federal Highway No. 40 leading to Denver (the blocking of the federal highway especially shocked everyone).

"Heemeyer's War" ended at 16:23.

Marvin decided to tear down the Gambles small wholesale store. In my opinion, there was simply nothing left to demolish there; there was still a gas station left liquefied gas, but its explosion would have destroyed half the town without distinguishing where the mayor’s house was and where the garbage man’s.

The bulldozer stood, ironing the ruins of Gambles department store. In the sudden deathly silence, the steam escaping from the broken radiator whistled furiously; it was covered with debris from the roof, it got stuck and stalled.

At first, the police were afraid for a long time to approach Heemeyer’s bulldozer, and then they spent a long time making a hole in the armor, trying to get the welder out of his tracked fortress (three plastic charges did not give the desired effect). They were afraid of the last trap that Marvin could set for them. When the armor was finally penetrated with an autogen gun, he had already been dead for half a day. Marvin kept the last cartridge for himself. He was not going to fall into the clutches of his enemies alive. Heemeyer was not one to give up!

As the governor of Colorado so aptly put it, “the city looks like a tornado went through it.” The city actually suffered damage worth $5,000,000, and the plant - $2,000,000. Considering the scale of the town, this meant almost complete destruction. The plant never recovered from the attack and sold the territory along with the ruins.

Some smart people wanted to put the bulldozer on a pedestal and make it a landmark, but the majority insisted on melting it down. For the residents of the town, this incident evokes, as you might guess, extremely mixed emotions.

Then the investigation began. It turned out that “Heemeyer’s creation was so reliable that it could withstand not only the explosion of grenades, but also a not very powerful artillery shell: it was completely covered with armored plates, each of which consisted of two sheets of half-inch (about 1.3 cm) steel, fastened together with a cement pad.” He was nicknamed Killdozer

“He was a nice guy,” recall people who knew Himeyer closely.

- “You shouldn’t have made him angry.” “If he was your friend, then he was your best friend. Well, if the enemy is the most dangerous,” say Marvin’s comrades.

This act was admired by many people in the US and around the world. Marvin Heemeyer began to be called "the last American hero." Now this incident is assessed as a spontaneous anti-globalist action.
Marvin John Heemeyer

This is a non-standard post for me; copy-paste very rarely appears on the blog. But I couldn’t help but share it. This is a story about an incredibly cool American dude who could not stand being insulted and took revenge on his offenders for 7 million bucks. Even though he himself lost his life. This story deserves the coolest film adaptation! I highly recommend reading this story and looking at the handmade tank

Marvin Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American welder and owner of a muffler repair shop in Granby, Colorado. The town is microscopic, 2200 inhabitants. He officially bought his plot of land for a workshop and a store for quite a lot of money at an auction (something like $15,000, for this he sold his share in a large car service center in Denver).

He also built snowmobiles as a hobby and used them to ride newlyweds around Granby in the winter. Like in a limousine. He even had the appropriate license (I never suspected that such activities could be licensed at all). In my opinion, the guy was quite good-natured and extremely funny. However, "While many people described Heemeyer as a likeable guy, others said he was not someone to cross." At one time he served in the Air Force as an airfield technician, and since then he has worked steadily in the engineering and technical department. He lived to be fifty-two years old, unmarried (he had some kind of sad love story at one time).

Granby on the map

Sooner or later, all the plant's neighbors surrendered, but not Heemeyer. The manufacturers were never able to acquire his land, although they tried to do so by hook or by crook. In general, despairing of resolving the issue culturally, they began to persecute the man. Since all the land around the workshop already belonged to the plant, all communications and access to the house were blocked. Marvin decided to pave a different road, and even bought a decommissioned Komatsu D355A-3 bulldozer for this purpose and restored the engine on it in his workshop.

Marvin had this brand of bulldozer

The city administration refused permission to build a new road. The bank found fault with the mortgage loan and threatened to take away the house.

Heemeyer tried to restore justice by suing Mountain Park, but lost the lawsuit.

The tax office for taxes on retail trade, the fire inspectorate, the sanitary epidemiological inspection came several times, the latter issued a fine of $ 2,500 for the enchanting “junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line” (in general, in his workshop “there was a tank, not meeting sanitary standards.”) Let me remind you that we were talking about an auto repair shop. Marvin could not connect to the sewer system, since the land on which the ditch should be dug also belonged to the plant and the plant was in no hurry to give him such permission. Marvin paid. Attaching a short note to the receipt when sending it - “Cowards”. After some time, his father died (Mar. 31, 2004), Marvin went to bury him, and while he was away, his electricity and water were turned off and his workshop was sealed. After that, he locked himself in the workshop. Almost no one saw him.

The creation of the Armored Bulldozer took about two months, according to some reports, and about a year and a half, according to others... She covered it with twelve-millimeter steel sheets, laid with a centimeter layer of cement. Equipped with television cameras that display images on monitors inside the cabin. I equipped the cameras with lens cleaning systems in case they were blinded by dust and debris. Prudent Marvin stocked up on food, water, ammunition and a gas mask. (Two Ruger 223s and one Remington 306 with ammunition.) Using remote control, he lowered the armored box onto the chassis, locking himself inside. To lower this shell onto the bulldozer cabin, Heemeyer used a homemade crane. “By lowering it, Heemeyer understood that after that he would no longer be able to get out of the car,” police experts said. And at 14:30 I left the garage.

It looked like this:

Marvin made a list of goals in advance. Everyone whom he considered necessary to take revenge on.
"Sometimes, as he put it in his notes, reasonable men must do unreasonable things."

Heemeyer returned fire from two twenty-three semi-automatic rifles and one fifty-caliber semi-automatic rifle through specially made loopholes in the armor on the left, right and front, respectively. However, according to experts, he did everything to ensure that no one was hurt, shooting more to intimidate and not allowing the police to stick their nose out from behind their cars. None of the police received a scratch.

The pursuit

Sheriff's parking lot

Ruins of the administration of the Mountain Park Inc. cement plant.

To begin with, he drove through the territory of the plant, carefully demolishing the plant's management building, production workshops and, in general, everything down to the last barn. Then he moved around the town. He removed the facades from the houses of city council members. Demolished the bank building, which tried to press him through early repayment of the mortgage loan. He destroyed the buildings of the gas company Ixel Energy, which refused to refill his kitchen gas cylinders after a fine, the city hall, the city council office, the fire department, a warehouse, and several residential buildings that belonged to the mayor of the city. He tore down the editorial office of the local newspaper and the public library. In short, he demolished everything that had anything to do with the local authorities, including their private houses. Moreover, he showed good knowledge of who owns what.

Mountain Park Cement Plant Inc.

Municipal building that served as a hall and library

Liberty Bank

Himeyer actively fired back through the embrasures cut into the armor. Not a single person was harmed by its fire. Because he shot significantly higher than his head. In other words, into the sky. However, the police no longer dared to approach him. In total, counting the rangers, about 40 people had gathered by that time. The bulldozer took more than 200 hits from everything from service revolvers to M-16s and grenades. They tried to stop him with a huge scraper. The Komatsu D355A easily pushed the scraper backwards into the front of the store and left it there. A car full of explosives in Heemeyer’s path also did not give the desired result. The only achievement was a radiator punctured by a ricochet - however, as experience in quarry work shows, such bulldozers do not immediately pay attention to even a complete failure of the cooling system.

Expressway No. 40

"Heemeyer's War" ended at 16:23.

Marvin decided to tear down the small wholesale store "Gambles". In my opinion, there was simply nothing left to demolish there; there was still a liquefied gas filling station, but its explosion would have destroyed half the town without distinguishing where the mayor’s house was and where the garbage man’s.

Himeyer was not one to give up!

As the governor of Colorado so aptly put it, “the city looks like a tornado has gone through it.” The city actually suffered damage worth $5,000,000, and the plant - $2,000,000. Considering the scale of the town, this meant almost complete destruction. The plant never recovered from the attack and sold the territory along with the ruins.

Map of Destruction

He was nicknamed "Killdozer"

“He was a nice guy,” recall people who knew Himeyer closely.

- “You shouldn’t have made him angry.” “If he was your friend, then he was your best friend. Well, if the enemy is the most dangerous,” say Marvin’s comrades.

This act was admired by many people in the US and around the world. Marvin Heemeyer began to be called "the last American hero." Now this incident is assessed as a spontaneous anti-globalist action.

An incredible event occurred in 2004 in Granby, Colorado.

Marvin Heemeyer is an American welder and owner of a muffler repair shop in Granby, Colorado. The town is microscopic, 2200 inhabitants. He officially bought his plot of land for a workshop and a store for quite a lot of money at auction (about $15,000, for this he sold his share in a large auto repair shop in Denver). Fifty-two-year-old welder Heemeyer managed to live in Granby for several years, repairing car mufflers . His small workshop was closely adjacent to the Mountain Park cement plant. To the dismay of Heemeyer and other neighbors of the plant, Mountain Park decided to expand, forcing them to sell their land.

Sooner or later, all the plant's neighbors surrendered, but not Heemeyer. The manufacturers were never able to acquire his land, although they tried to do so by hook or by crook. In general, despairing of resolving the issue culturally, they began to persecute the man. Since all the land around the workshop already belonged to the plant, all communications and access to the house were blocked. Marvin decided to build another road, and even bought a decommissioned Komatsu D355A-3 bulldozer for this purpose and restored the engine on it in his workshop. However, the city administration refused permission to build a new road. The bank found fault with the mortgage loan and threatened to take away the house. Heemeyer tried to restore justice by suing Mountain Park, but lost the lawsuit.

The tax office for taxes on retail trade, the fire inspectorate, the sanitary and epidemiological inspection came several times, the latter issued a fine of $ 2,500 for the enchanting “junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line” (in general, in his workshop “there was a tank, not meeting sanitary standards.”) Let me remind you that we were talking about an auto repair shop. Marvin could not connect to the sewer system, since the land on which the ditch should be dug also belonged to the plant and the plant was in no hurry to give him such permission. Marvin paid. Attaching a short note to the receipt when sending it - “Cowards”. After some time, his father died, Marvin went to bury him, and while he was away, his electricity and water were turned off and his workshop was sealed. After that, he locked himself in the workshop. Almost no one saw him.

The creation of the Armored Bulldozer took about two months, according to some reports, and about a year and a half, according to others... She covered it with twelve-millimeter steel sheets, laid with a centimeter layer of cement. Equipped with television cameras that display images on monitors inside the cabin. I equipped the cameras with lens cleaning systems in case they were blinded by dust and debris. Prudent Marvin stocked up on food, water, ammunition and a gas mask. (Two Ruger 223s and one Remington 306 with ammunition.) Using remote control, he lowered the armored box onto the chassis, locking himself inside. To lower this shell onto the bulldozer cabin, Heemeyer used a homemade crane. “By lowering it, Heemeyer understood that after that he would no longer be able to get out of the car,” police experts said. And at 14:30 I left the garage.

Marvin made a list of goals in advance. Everyone whom he considered necessary to take revenge on.
Heemeyer returned fire from two twenty-three semi-automatic rifles and one fifty-caliber semi-automatic rifle through specially made loopholes in the armor on the left, right and front, respectively. However, according to experts, he did everything to ensure that no one was hurt, shooting more to intimidate and not allowing the police to stick their nose out from behind their cars. None of the police received a scratch.

They tried to stop Himeyer. First, the local sheriff and his assistants. Let me remind you that the bulldozer was equipped with centimeter spaced armor. Local police used nine-point revolvers and shotguns. With a clear result. From zero. The local SWAT team was alerted. Then the forest rangers. SWAT found grenades, and the rangers had assault rifles. A particularly dashing sergeant jumped from the roof onto the hood of a bulldozer and tried to throw a flashbang grenade into the exhaust pipe. It’s hard to say what he wanted to achieve - the son of a bitch Himeyer, as it turned out, welded a grate there, so the only thing the bulldozer lost as a result was the pipes themselves. The sergeant, of course, also survived. The teardrop gun didn’t take the driver - the monitors were visible even in the gas mask. Himeyer actively fired back through the embrasures cut into the armor. Not a single person was harmed by its fire. Because he shot significantly higher than his head. In other words, into the sky. However, the police no longer dared to approach him. In total, counting the rangers, about 40 people had gathered by that time. The bulldozer took more than 200 hits from everything from service revolvers to M-16s and grenades. They tried to stop him with a huge scraper. The Komatsu D355A easily pushed the scraper backwards into the front of the store and left it there. A car full of explosives in Heemeyer’s path also did not give the desired result. The only achievement was a radiator punctured by a ricochet - however, as experience in quarry work shows, such bulldozers do not immediately pay attention to even a complete failure of the cooling system.

All that the police could actually do in the end was to evacuate 1.5 thousand residents and block all roads, including Federal Highway No. 40 leading to Denver (the blocking of the federal highway especially shocked everyone). Marvin decided to tear down the small wholesale store "Gambles" to the heap. . In my opinion, there was simply nothing left to demolish there; there was still a liquefied gas filling station, but its explosion would have destroyed half the town without distinguishing where the mayor’s house was and where the garbage man’s.

As the governor of Colorado said, “the city looks like a tornado went through it.” The city actually suffered damage worth $5,000,000, and the plant - $2,000,000. Considering the scale of the city, this meant its almost complete destruction. The plant never recovered from the attack and sold the territory along with the ruins. Some smart people wanted to put the bulldozer on a pedestal and make it a landmark, but the majority insisted on melting it down.

“He was a nice guy,” recall people who knew Himeyer closely.

- “You shouldn’t have made him angry.” “If he was your friend, then he was your best friend. Well, if the enemy is the most dangerous,” say Marvin’s comrades.

This act was admired by many people in the US and around the world. Marvin Heemeyer began to be called "the last American hero."

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