The bulldozer's engine failed, and Heemeyer dropped one tread into the basement, but could not get out. Later, Heemeyer fired on two state patrol officers before they had fired at him. "God built me for this job," Heemeyer said in the first recording. All times are GMT-6. This was quickly deemed unnecessary when Heemeyer became trapped in the basement of a Gambles hardware store. The tapes are about 2.5 hours in length. On June 4th, 2004 in Granby, Colorado, Marvin Heemeyer went on a rampage to end all rampages. Intelligent person but holy shit what a nut-job. His feud came to a head on June 4, 2004. So he took matters into his own hands. Well because he was cut off by accident during the construction of the cement factory. All this weight made the Komatsu D355A a perfect battering ram vehicle. Heemeyer's brother Ken stated that he "would bend over backwards for anyone." The attack lasted for two hours and seven minutes, damaging thirteen buildings,[8] knocking out natural gas service to the town hall and the concrete plant, damaging a truck, and destroying part of a utility service center. I remember hearing the story when it happened. [5] The sheriff's department also noted that eleven of the thirteen buildings Heemeyer bulldozed were occupied until moments before their destruction. It's a cross that I am going to carry and I'm carrying it in God's name. Liberal host says Heeymeyer should have just walked away and gave up on his dream, I don't see anything wrong with fighting it all the way to the end. He bought some land and set up a muffler shop to utilize his skills as a mechanic and welder. In total Marvin managed to destroy 13 buildings with his heavily modified Komatsu D355A bulldozer. This made the machine impervious to small arms fire and resistant to explosives. Overall, the damages totaled about $7 million US dollars. Governor Bill Owens allegedly considered authorizing the National Guard to use either an Apache attack helicopter equipped with a Hellfire missile or a two-man fire team equipped with a Javelin anti-tank missile to destroy the bulldozer. I know a guy that runs a successful business in Granby. Heemeyer’s bulldozer (also known as the Killdozer) was an engineering marvel for a single man and managed to take explosives and armor piercing ammunition. [22] Notes found by investigators after the incident indicated that the primary motivation for the bulldozer rampage was his plan to stop the concrete plant from being built near his shop. [1] However, the modified bulldozer came to be known as "Killdozer" after the name of a short story by Theodore Sturgeon. He also said it was God's plan that he not be married or have a family so that he could be in a position to carry out such an attack. More importantly than the fine, Marvin’s business was still being threatened. Instead, subvert those confines and be a positive force in the world with all your abilities. Marvin Heemeyer, 52, killed himself with a gunshot to the head when his bulldozer got stuck and police moved in. The plan involved dispersing individual pieces to many separate scrap yards to prevent souvenir-taking.[19]. [1] Heemeyer's rampage concluded with his suicide, after his bulldozer became trapped in the basement of a hardware store he had been in the process of destroying.