06-04 is Killdozer day.
“Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
Marvin Heemeyer, a USAF veteran, bought the land in 1992 and built a shop.
The town annexes the area where his land is.
Typically, along with annexation, city utilities such as sewage lines are extended.
It didn't, and Heemeyer was asked to instead build out the sewage pipeline himself, which would have cost him over 80k USD. A cheaper septic tank option was also available, but he refused both options and was fined $2500 in 2001. He paid the check with “Cowards” written on it.
The concrete plant rezoning happened where the Docheff family wanted to build a concrete batch plant next door to Heemeyer's shop. Heemeyer did not want to sell his land.
After the town rezoned the land in 2001, the concrete plant went up, and the noise, dust, and traffic ruined his business. The only access road was also blocked.
Heemeyer asked permission to build an additional road to his shop for easier access, which was easy to do because he had a bulldozer and was going to do it himself. The City denied him.
Appeals, lawsuits... everything got rejected, and intrusive elements ended up built around his shop, practically encircling it.
With his back against the wall and no option left, he secretly started building an armored plating cover for the bulldozer. Audio tapes, recordings, and documentation were all curated and sent to his brother before he started his rampage.
In the 2-hour rampage, he didn't hurt anyone.
He destroyed 13 buildings, all connected to those who wronged him, including the town hall. After it was done, he took his own life inside the killdozer and became a legend.
All the evidence then came out, implicating the city for the insane bureaucracy that drove a reasonable person to do unreasonable things.
It all started because the government's land-use power allowed a bigger player to develop right next door, destroying his life.
Property should mean something, and when zoning is rigged against the little guy, it is exactly the kind of 12 year slow-motion injustice that turned a reasonable welder into the Killdozer guy.
The story inspired movies like Leviathan (2014), and documentaries like Tread, along with multiple songs.
RIP Marvin Heemeyer
CAUGHT IN CAMO: 6 Military-Age Chinese ‘Special Interest Aliens’ Busted Sneaking Into America at Texas Border — Heroes Just Saved the Day ☠️
🚨 NATIONAL SECURITY ALERT — Texas DPS K-9 Bona & Border Patrol just caught 6 Chinese Special Interest Aliens in full camouflage sneaking across a private ranch in Maverick County, TX!
Military-age men from the CCP, using evasion tactics to dodge detection. Earlier the same night: 7 more migrants (Mexico, Guatemala, India, Ecuador, Cuba) plus a separate Jeep full of smuggled illegals.
These aren’t tourists — they’re flagged as high-risk for espionage/sabotage. Thank God our heroes under Operation Lone Star are ON IT. Border security = national security. 🇺🇸
Who else got through? Stay vigilant, America!
#OperationLoneStar #BorderSecurity #ChinaThreat
h/t @EricLDaugh
Elon Musk: "There's a very high probability we're living in a simulation."
In a conversation with Nikhil Kamath, Musk explained how video games evolved from Pong to photorealistic worlds with millions of players in just 50 years. He noted that if this trend continues, games will soon be indistinguishable from reality with intelligent characters.
"So then what are the odds that we are in base reality? And that this has not happened before."
Musk added that we should think of this as probabilities, not certainties, and shared his theory that "The most interesting outcome is the most likely outcome as seen by a third party, the gods of the simulation."
Nothing will shape your worldview as much as simply reading how humans from the past thought.
You realize very quickly that our time is a radical anomaly in human history.