20th Anniversary of Marvin Heemeyer’s epic drive through Granby, Colorado. June 4th 2004 with his 85 ton armored Komatsu Bulldozer.

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20 years after a bulldozer rampage in a small Colorado town, the legacy of the “killdozer” lives on
H/T and thanks to Mr. Mayo: More up Phil’s alley…

> Music’s extreme metal community has also found common ground with
> Heemeyer, according to Pat Jarrett, a 41-year-old bass player for the
> Virginia sludge metal band named — wait for it — Heemeyer.
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> While Jarrett says he and his bandmates lean to the left on the political
> spectrum, they understand the alienation and frustration that fueled
> Heemeyer’s actions 20 years ago.
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> “Marv Heemeyer is a kind of folk hero in the extreme metal community,”
> Jarrett said. “Certainly, his rampage was unreasonable, but he was pushed
> to the point of pushing back. And there’s catharsis in that.
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> “I understand that feeling of wanting to hole up in a garage and build
> something I could bulldoze with.”
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> A Swiss thrash metal band named Xonor has a song called “Killdozer,” as
> does Canadian doom metal band Dopethrone. North Carolina metal band Lords
> and Liars released its own “Killdozer” track.
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> “Focused. Deliberate,” the lyrics go in Lords and Liars’ version.
> “Nothing will stop him but his equipment. Rage born. Revenge machine.
> He’s going down a way that’s been never seen.”
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> “Marv is part of the lore of heavy metal,” Heemeyer’s Jarrett said.

Since I’m not a metalhead, I wasn’t aware of the “sludge” variant.

Old Truck Tuesday, Brockway Trucks.

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Based in Cortland, New York. A carriage maker that transitioned to truck making in 1909 and built trucks until purchased by Mack Trucks in 1956 and continued as a separate division until 1977.

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Above two pictures: 1957 Brockway Trucks 260, courtesy Curbside Classic https://www.curbsideclassic.com/

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Mack’s had a Bulldog, Brockway had the Huskie.

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Gunday Monday

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Contributed by Wild, wild West and Don’t mind me. I am beginning to think they are interchangeable…

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When I worked in ED, I had two die of massive bleeding for putting an object up their butt…

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Something about a naked chick aiming at me gives me a woodie… (Cederq)

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Dmm’s special presentation:

Me, I can’t top that…