This is not the proper useage!
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MikePA
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<font color="blue"> I hope some good comes out of this. </font>
So do I, but I don't see how.
<font color="blue">I sure hope he was rite and only took out the houses of the folks that needed it! </font>
Can't agree with this. Nothing this guy did with his armored bulldozer was right. The 2,200 residents of Granby, Colorado, and probably all the other taxpayers of Colorado are going to get to pick up the tab for what this guy did.
So do I, but I don't see how.
<font color="blue">I sure hope he was rite and only took out the houses of the folks that needed it! </font>
Can't agree with this. Nothing this guy did with his armored bulldozer was right. The 2,200 residents of Granby, Colorado, and probably all the other taxpayers of Colorado are going to get to pick up the tab for what this guy did.
frank_f15
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100% agree with you. not just cause for that kind of action. i also have been frustrated with some governement decisions, but can't see where wanton destruction of some persons home is warrented.
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So let's hope one of the people he was angry with didn't have their children in the buildings with them that the guy demolished..... if you're angry with some legal decision, you don't go out and do stuff like that. Just my outlook on it.
Agreed 100%. I wonder If this fella had a family and a couple of pets at home ? Living in that house breathing raw cement dust , gravel dust, truck traffic, bachup alarms on and on. They couldn't live any kind of healthy life there anymore, couldn't sell it for squat now eather. What this fella did was wrong fer sure.But, Just because the concrete company had it done wrapped in a nice little tiddy leagle package sure ain't eather. You ever backed a dog into a corner where he thought or was sure his life as he knows it was over? Me eather, but I bet he will get seriously mad and maybe SNAP.There is always more to a picture than meets the eye. My 2 open minded cents.
MikePA
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<font color="blue"> Just because the concrete company had it done wrapped in a nice little tiddy leagle package sure ain't eather. </font>
Do you know this to be true?
<font color="blue"> I wonder If this fella had a family and a couple of pets at home ? Living in that house breathing raw cement dust , gravel dust, truck traffic, bachup alarms on and on. They couldn't live any kind of healthy life there anymore, couldn't sell it for squat now eather. </font>
The cement plant built around his business, not his home.
The only reports I've seen that offers an explanation as to why this guy did this are;
<font color="red">"The man, who Dewet said was in his 50s, was angry at a zoning decision that allowed the concrete plant to expand around his building instead of buying his land." </font>
<font color="red">"Town manager Tom Hale said Heemeyer was angry after losing a zoning dispute that allowed a cement plant to be built near his muffler shop. Heemeyer also was fined $2,500 in a separate case for not having a septic tank and for other city code violations at his business, Hale said. "</font>
Who knows what happened before the zoning decision was made;
Did the cement company offer to buy his property?
Did they offer too little?
Did this guy want too much?
Who knows. All we can do is judge what he did, and what he did was wrong. I am sure everyone who breaks the law feels they are justified in doing so. While I can empathize with the guys anger, it can not justify what he did.
<font color="blue"> There is always more to a picture than meets the eye. </font>
True. Perhaps more will come out.
Do you know this to be true?
<font color="blue"> I wonder If this fella had a family and a couple of pets at home ? Living in that house breathing raw cement dust , gravel dust, truck traffic, bachup alarms on and on. They couldn't live any kind of healthy life there anymore, couldn't sell it for squat now eather. </font>
The cement plant built around his business, not his home.
The only reports I've seen that offers an explanation as to why this guy did this are;
<font color="red">"The man, who Dewet said was in his 50s, was angry at a zoning decision that allowed the concrete plant to expand around his building instead of buying his land." </font>
<font color="red">"Town manager Tom Hale said Heemeyer was angry after losing a zoning dispute that allowed a cement plant to be built near his muffler shop. Heemeyer also was fined $2,500 in a separate case for not having a septic tank and for other city code violations at his business, Hale said. "</font>
Who knows what happened before the zoning decision was made;
Did the cement company offer to buy his property?
Did they offer too little?
Did this guy want too much?
Who knows. All we can do is judge what he did, and what he did was wrong. I am sure everyone who breaks the law feels they are justified in doing so. While I can empathize with the guys anger, it can not justify what he did.
<font color="blue"> There is always more to a picture than meets the eye. </font>
True. Perhaps more will come out.
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I have a good friend In Iraq thats in the Operating Engineers, He says his biggest complaint is the D7G's they run dont have any armor on the cabs and they spend alot of time in bad areas tearing out road blocks and other obstructions. He told me after i sent a few pictures of the dozer with the armored cab, We both agreed how big of a shame it was for a man with that much enginuity had to go off the deep end.