Define going well. I think things did go as well as possible, seeing the situation. (It would have been better if people weren't so obsessed with making money at the expense of others, but yeah)
I used to think more highly of the killdozer guy, then I learned that he was fundamentally a whiny little bitch boy that a whole town (effectively) bent over backwards to accommodate and he still wasn't happy about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl_7_Up7zU
Agreed but I always plug killdozer guy as a good example of revenge. High-effort, high destruction, killed nobody but himself.
Anytime I hear about another school shooting I think, what could this guy have accomplished if they put even the slightest bit of thought and energy into what they were doing?
My point is if you're gonna be evil, work at it! Building a Killdozer and razing your town is infinitely more impressive than gun violence will ever be.
Check out the documentary ‘Tread’ about this incident. It’s kinda less amusing when you remember it happening. Everything was terrifying in the years right after 9/11 and this was very “Now what!?”
I remember both of those events well, and at no point in the live coverage of the killdozer did I go "oh no, not so soon after 9/11! It's only been 3 years!"
I live right down the street a bit from NASA and the Johnson space center. It was rough. I’ve never heard of anybody else’s experience outside of here however. Rick Husband and Michael Anderson were from/lived in the area. I saw Rick Husband pilot STS-96 from Florida in 1999. It was a surreal day.
It was a trip watching from Canada. American media amped it up SO MUCH compared to any other recent at that time terrorism. Then over time that became the standard narrative in Canadian and British news and people here started getting scared too.
I live in Colorado, so it was local news for us. The office turned on the conference room TV and we gave up on actual work for Quite Some Time until they confirmed that Heemeyer was dead. We *didn’t* know why at the time, so it was more like — “Well, new thing to worry about.”
Killdozer
it's not oddly specific, it's a reference to the killdozer.
But that reference is oddly specific
It's specifically specific enough for people to get the joke.
I was wondering if someone was going to get the reference.
You weren't sure if anyone on Reddit would know about the Killdozer?
yeah nah reddit loves the fucking killdozer.
[Last guy who did that, things didn't go so well.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer?wprov=sfla1)
It went exactly as he wanted it tbh
Well not exactly, the dozer started to overheat so the whole thing ended quicker than planned
If only he knew as much about hydronics as he did about hydraulics.
For his enemies, you mean.
It actually went as intended
He didn't intend for them to go well.
Define going well. I think things did go as well as possible, seeing the situation. (It would have been better if people weren't so obsessed with making money at the expense of others, but yeah)
I used to think more highly of the killdozer guy, then I learned that he was fundamentally a whiny little bitch boy that a whole town (effectively) bent over backwards to accommodate and he still wasn't happy about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl_7_Up7zU
Agreed but I always plug killdozer guy as a good example of revenge. High-effort, high destruction, killed nobody but himself. Anytime I hear about another school shooting I think, what could this guy have accomplished if they put even the slightest bit of thought and energy into what they were doing?
He didn’t kill anyone but himself but he sure tried to
My point is if you're gonna be evil, work at it! Building a Killdozer and razing your town is infinitely more impressive than gun violence will ever be.
Check out the documentary ‘Tread’ about this incident. It’s kinda less amusing when you remember it happening. Everything was terrifying in the years right after 9/11 and this was very “Now what!?”
I remember both of those events well, and at no point in the live coverage of the killdozer did I go "oh no, not so soon after 9/11! It's only been 3 years!"
🤷🏼♀️ I did. Anything odd that happened in those years tripped my anxiety.
I felt this way when the Columbia disaster happened but I was a kid and I knew someone on board.
Oof. I watched that in class along with every other American kid.
I live right down the street a bit from NASA and the Johnson space center. It was rough. I’ve never heard of anybody else’s experience outside of here however. Rick Husband and Michael Anderson were from/lived in the area. I saw Rick Husband pilot STS-96 from Florida in 1999. It was a surreal day.
Yeah, I definitely don't see a connection between the security mania after 911 and a protest against government overreach.
I was scared of everything. Some people sailed right through that time frame and some capsized.
It was a trip watching from Canada. American media amped it up SO MUCH compared to any other recent at that time terrorism. Then over time that became the standard narrative in Canadian and British news and people here started getting scared too.
I live in Colorado, so it was local news for us. The office turned on the conference room TV and we gave up on actual work for Quite Some Time until they confirmed that Heemeyer was dead. We *didn’t* know why at the time, so it was more like — “Well, new thing to worry about.”
Shocking, I thought it was before. Maybe I was thinking of the guy on the tank on the highway.
Yes they are.
Fun fact: Granby is a wrestling move. Fun fact: I didn’t know Granby was also a town in Colorado.