Marvin Hemeyer. The last American hero. Vengeance Me Cement Plant Mountain Park Inc

Marvin Hemeyer (October 28, 1951 - June 4, 2004) was an American welder who owned a muffler repair shop in Granby, Colorado. The town is microscopic, with 2200 inhabitants. Mine land plot for a workshop and a shop, he officially bought out for quite decent grandmother at an auction (something about $ 15,000, for this he sold his share in a large car service in Denver).
Also, as a hobby, he built snowmobiles and in the winter rode them around Granby for newlyweds. Like a limousine. He even had an appropriate license (I never suspected that such an activity could be licensed at all). In my opinion, the uncle was quite good-natured and extremely cool. However, "While many people described Heemeyer as a likeable guy, others said he was not someone to cross." At one time he served in the Air Force, as an airfield technician, and since then has worked steadily in the engineering part. He lived to be fifty-two years old, not married (some kind of sad love story he had at one time).

Himeyer, a 52-year-old welder, lived in Granby for several years fixing car mufflers. His small workshop was closely adjacent to a cement plant. Mountain park... Much to the displeasure of Himeyer and other neighbors of the plant, Mountain Park decided to expand, forcing them to sell their land plots.

Sooner or later, all the neighbors of the plant surrendered, but not Himeyer. The factory owners could not acquire its land, although they tried to do it by hook or by crook. In general, desperate to culturally resolve the issue, the peasant began to persecute. Since all the land around the workshop already belonged to the plant, all communications and the entrance to the house were blocked. Marvin decided to pave another road, and even bought a decommissioned Komatsu D355A-3 bulldozer for this, having restored the engine on it in his workshop.
The city administration refused permission for the laying new road... The bank found fault with the registration of a mortgage loan and threatened to take away the house.

Hemeyer tried to restore justice by suing Mountain Park, but he lost the legal battle.

Several times the tax office ran into retail, fire inspectorate, sanitary inspection, the latter issued a fine of $ 2500 for the enchanting "junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line" (in general, in his workshop there was "a tank that did not meet sanitary standards.") , was about an auto repair shop. Marvin could not connect to the sewer, since the land on which the ditch should be dug also belonged to the plant and the plant was in no hurry to give him such permission. Marvin paid. Attaching to the receipt when sending a short note - "Cowards". After some time, his father died (31-Mar-2004), Marvin went to bury him and while he was away, they cut off the light, water and sealed his workshop. After that, he locked himself in the workshop. Almost no one saw him.

The creation of the Armored Bulldozer took about two months, according to some reports, and about one and a half years, according to others. She sheathed it with twelve-millimeter steel sheets, laid with a centimeter layer of cement. Equipped with TV cameras with image display on monitors inside the cab. Equipped cameras with lens cleaning systems in case of blinding dust and debris. The prudent Marvin stocked up on food, water, ammunition and a gas mask. (Two Ruger-223 and one Remington-306 with cartridges.) remote control lowered the armored box onto the chassis, locking himself inside. To lower this shell onto the bulldozer's cab, Hemeyer used a homemade crane. “As he lowered it, Hemeyer realized that after that he would not get out of the car,” police experts said. And at 14:30 I left the garage.

It looked like this:

Hemeyer returned fire from two twenty-third semi-automatic rifles and one fifty-caliber semi-automatic rifle through specially made loopholes in the armor on the left, right and front, respectively. However, according to experts, he did everything so that none of the people were injured, shooting more to intimidate and not letting the police poke their nose out of their cars. None of the police officers received a scratch.

To begin with, he drove through the territory of the plant, carefully demolishing the building of the plant management, production workshops and in general everything to the last barn. Then he moved around the town. I removed the facades from the houses of the members of the city council. Demolished the building of the bank, which tried to press on it through early repayment of the mortgage loan. He destroyed the buildings of the gas company Ixel Energy, which refused to refuel its kitchen gas cylinders after a fine, the building of the city hall, the office of the city council, fire department, a warehouse, several residential buildings that belonged to the mayor of the city. To a heap he tore down the editorial office of the local newspaper and the public library, In short, he demolished everything that had anything to do with local authorities including their private homes. Moreover, he showed good awareness of who owns what.

They tried to stop Himayer. First, the local sheriff with assistants. Let me remind you that the bulldozer was equipped with a centimeter spaced armor. Local police used nines and shotguns. With a clear result. With zero. A local SWAT squad was raised on alert. Then the forest rangers. SWAT had grenades, the rangers had assault rifles. Some particularly dashing sergeant jumped from the roof onto the hood of the bulldozer and tried to throw a stun grenade into the exhaust pipe. It's hard to say what he wanted to achieve - the son of a bitch Himayer, as it turned out, welded a grate there, so the only thing that the bulldozer lost as a result was the pipes itself. The sergeant, of course, also survived. The driver's teardrop did not take - the monitors could be seen in the gas mask.

Himayer actively fired back through the embrasures cut through the armor. Not a single person was hurt by its fire. Because he shot much higher than the heads. To put it simply, into the sky. However, the policemen no longer dared to approach him. In total, counting their rangers, about 40 people had gathered by that time. The bulldozer took over 200 hits from everything from service revolvers to M-16s and grenades. They tried to stop him with a hefty scraper. "Komatsu D355A" without special labor shoved the scraper backwards into the front of the store and left it there. The car filled with explosives on the way of Himayer also did not give the desired result. The only achievement was the radiator punctured by a rebound - however, as the experience of quarrying shows, such bulldozers do not immediately pay attention even to a complete failure of the cooling system.

All that the police could actually do in the end was to evacuate 1.5 thousand residents and block all roads, including the federal highway number 40 leading to Denver (the blocking of the federal highway was especially shocking for everyone).

To the pile, Marvin decided to tear down the small wholesale store "Gambles". In my opinion, there was simply nothing more to demolish, there was still a station for refueling liquefied gas, but its explosion would have blown up half of the town without disassembling where the mayor's house was and where the garbage man was.

The bulldozer stood, ironing the ruins of the Gambles department store. In the sudden deathly silence, steam escaping from a punctured radiator whistled furiously, it was covered with debris from the roof, it got stuck and stalled.

At first, the police were afraid for a long time to approach the Hemeyer bulldozer, and then they made a hole in the armor for a long time, trying to get the welder out of his caterpillar fortress (three plastic charges did not give the desired effect). They were afraid of the last trap that Marvin could arrange for them. When the armor was finally pierced by an autogenous blowtorch, he was already half a day dead. The last patron Marvin kept for himself. He was not going to fall into the clutches of his enemies alive.

As the Governor of Colorado aptly put it, "the city looks like a tornado swept through it." The city was really damaged by $ 5,000,000, the plant - by $ 2,000,000. Given the scale of the town, this meant almost complete destruction. The plant never recovered from the attack and sold the area along with the ruins.

They wanted to put the bulldozer on a pedestal and make it a tourist attraction, but most insisted on melting it down. For the inhabitants of the town, this incident evokes, as you might guess, extremely mixed emotions.

Then the investigation began. It turned out that “Khimeyer's creation was so reliable that it could withstand not only a grenade explosion, but also a not very powerful artillery shell: it was completely covered with armored plates, each of which consisted of two sheets of half-inch (about 1.3 cm) steel, fastened together with a cement pad ”.

“He was a nice guy,” recall people who knew Chimeier closely.

"You shouldn't have pissed him off." “If he was your friend, then it was best friend... And if the enemy is the most dangerous, ”say Marvin's comrades.

This act has drawn admiration from many people in the United States and around the world. Marvin Hemeyer began to be called "the last American hero." Now this case is assessed as a spontaneous anti-globalization action.

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Marvin Hemeyer - America's last hero

This story has a sad ending. The inconspicuous town of Granby, Colorado, became known as the final resting place of the last American hero - Marvin Hemeyer (October 28, 1951 - June 4, 2004).

In short, a 52-year-old welder, Marvin Heemeyer, lived in Granby, fixing car mufflers and not touching anyone. Until the local Mountain Park cement plant decided to expand. Marvin's small workshop was closely adjacent to a cement plant, which began to force Hemeyer and other neighbors to sell their land plots.

People are small and weak, and corporations are big and strong, so soon, in an unequal struggle, all the neighbors of the plant surrendered and ceded their land plots to him. But not Chimeyer. He officially bought his land for a workshop and a shop at an auction several years ago for pretty decent money. To do this, he sold his stake in a large car service in Denver and therefore was not going to part with his legal property. The factory owners could not acquire its land, although they tried to do it by hook or by crook.

Desperate to resolve the issue amicably, Marvin began to persecute. Since all the land around the Khimeyer's workshop already belonged to the plant, all communications and the entrance to the house were blocked. Marvin decided to pave a different road, and even bought a decommissioned Komatsu D355A-3 bulldozer for this, having restored the engine on it in his workshop.

The city administration refused permission to build a new road. The bank found fault with the registration of a mortgage loan and threatened to take away the house. Hemeyer tried to restore justice by suing Mountain Park, but he lost the legal battle.

Several times he was run over by the retail tax authority, fire department and sanitary inspection, which issued a $ 2,500 fine for "there was a tank in his workshop that did not meet sanitary standards." Marvin could not connect to the sewer to drain the sewage from the tank, since the land on which the ditch was to be dug also belonged to the plant, and the plant was not going to give him such permission. Marvin paid the fine by attaching a short note to the receipt when he sent it: "Cowards."

Some time later, his father died (March 31, 2004). Marvin went to bury him, and while he was away, they cut off the light, water and sealed his workshop. After that, he closed in the workshop for several months and practically no one saw him.

All this time, Hemeyer, disenchanted with the vaunted American justice, was completing the creation of a weapon of retaliation - an armored bulldozer. He sheathed his Komatsu with 12mm steel sheets lined with a centimeter layer of cement. Equipped with TV cameras with image display on monitors inside the cab. Equipped cameras with lens cleaning systems in case of blinding dust and debris. The prudent Marvin stocked up on food, water, a gas mask and weapons (Barrett M82 rifle, Ruger AC556 carbine, Magnum revolver with cartridges). With the help of a remote control, he lowered an armored box onto the chassis, locking himself inside. In order to lower this armor shell onto the bulldozer's cab, Hemeyer used a makeshift crane. “Lowering it, Hemeyer realized that after that he would not get out of the car,” police experts said.

Marvin compiled a list of targets in advance - objects belonging to those whom he saw fit to take revenge on. To begin with, he drove through the territory of the plant, carefully demolishing the plant management building, production workshops and in general everything to the last barn. Then he moved around the town. I removed the facades from the houses of the members of the city council. Demolished the building of the bank, which tried to put pressure on him through early repayment of the mortgage loan. He destroyed the buildings of the gas company, which refused to refuel his kitchen gas cylinders after the fine, the city hall, the offices of the city council, the fire department, the warehouse, several residential buildings that belonged to the mayor of the city. Dug up the local newspaper office and the public library. In short, Marvin demolished everything that had anything to do with the local authorities, including their private homes. Moreover, he showed good awareness of who owns what. The houses of other residents of the town were not touched by Marvin.

Of course, they tried to stop him. First, the local sheriff with assistants. Then the local police, using revolvers and shotguns. A local SWAT squad was raised on alert. Then the forest rangers. SWAT had grenades, rangers had assault rifles. Some particularly dashing sergeant jumped from the roof onto the hood of the bulldozer and tried to throw a stun grenade into the exhaust pipe, but the son of a bitch Himeyer, as it turned out, welded the grate into it, so the only thing that the bulldozer lost as a result was the pipes itself. The driver's tear gases were not taken - the monitors could be seen in the gas mask. All attempts to stop the bulldozer were in vain.

Chimeyer actively fired back through the embrasures cut through the armor. Not a single person was hurt by his fire, because he shot much higher than their heads, in other words, into the sky, because he did not want innocent victims, but simply wanted to scare the security forces so that they would not bother him too much. He succeeded: the policemen no longer dared to approach him. In total, counting the gamekeepers, about 40 of them had gathered by that time. The bulldozer took more than 200 hits from everything the policemen had - from service revolvers to M-16s and grenades. They also tried to stop him with a hefty scraper (earth moving machine). However, Komatsu had no trouble shoving the scraper into the front of the store. The car filled with explosives on the way of Chimeyer also did not give the desired result. The only achievement of the police in their attempts to counteract Marvin was the bulldozer's radiator, punctured by a rebound - however, as the experience of quarrying shows, such bulldozers do not immediately pay attention even to a complete failure of the cooling system.

To the pile, Marvin decided to tear down the small wholesale store "Gambles". The bulldozer was ironing the ruins of a department store and stopped. In the sudden silence, steam whistled furiously from the punctured radiator. The bulldozer was covered with debris from the roof, it got stuck and stalled.

At first, the police were afraid for a long time to approach the Hemeyer bulldozer, and then they made a hole in the armor for a long time, trying to get the welder out of his caterpillar fortress (three plastic charges did not give the desired effect). They were afraid of the last trap that Marvin could arrange for them. When the armor was finally blown through with an autogenous blowtorch, Marvin was already dead. The last patron Marvin kept for himself. He was not going to fall into the clutches of his enemies alive.

The consequences of the war Marvin accurately described the governor of Colorado: "the city looks like a tornado swept through it." The city was really damaged by $ 5,000,000, the plant - by $ 2,000,000. Given the small scale of the town, this meant almost complete destruction. The plant never recovered from the attack and sold the area along with the ruins.

Then the investigation began. It turned out that Hemeyer's creation was so reliable that it could withstand not only the explosion of grenades, but also an artillery shell. At first they wanted to put the Bulldozer on a pedestal and make it a local landmark, but most insisted on melting it down.

In humans, this incident evokes extremely mixed emotions. On the one hand, antisocial destructive actions are usually judgmental. But on the other hand, Hemeyer's act has won approval from many people in the United States and around the world. Marvin Hemeyer began to be called "the last American hero" who challenged the social injustice that drowns little people in their unequal struggle with big corporations and the state machine. Many consider Marvin Hemeyer's act worthy of admiration, because he rightly fought for his rights: in his little war, only the property of his offenders suffered and not a single person died.

There was a guy with a capital letter named Marvin John Hemeyer.

He worked as a welder fixing car mufflers in Granby, Colorado. The town is microscopic, with 2200 inhabitants. He had a workshop there, with a shop. As I understand it, he officially bought the land under this workshop for pretty decent money at an auction (something about $ 15,000, for this he sold his share in a large car service in Denver).
Also, as a hobby, he built snowmobiles and in the winter rode them around Granby for newlyweds. Like a limousine. He even had an appropriate license (I never suspected that such an activity could be licensed at all). In my opinion, the uncle was quite good-natured and extremely cool. However, "While many people described Heemeyer as a likeable guy, others said he was not someone to cross." At one time he served in the Air Force, as an airfield technician, and since then has worked steadily in the engineering part.He lived to be fifty-two years old, not married (he had some kind of sad love story at one time).

Himeyer, a 52-year-old welder, lived in Granby for several years fixing car mufflers. His small workshop was closely adjacent to the Mountain Park cement plant. Much to the displeasure of Himeyer and other neighbors of the plant, Mountain Park decided to expand, forcing them to sell their land plots.

Sooner or later, all the neighbors of the plant surrendered, but not Himeyer.

The factory owners could not acquire its land, although they tried to do it by hook or by crook. In general, desperate to culturally resolve the issue, the peasant began to persecute. Since all the land around the workshop already belonged to the plant, all communications and the entrance to the house were blocked. Marvin decided to pave a different road, and even bought a decommissioned Komatsu D355A-3 bulldozer for this, having restored the engine on it in his workshop.

The city administration refused permission to build a new road. The bank found fault with the registration of a mortgage loan and threatened to take away the house.

Hemeyer tried to restore justice by suing Mountain Park, but he lost the legal battle.

Several times the retail tax office, fire inspection, sanitary and epidemiological inspection, the latter issued a fine of $ 2,500 for the enchanting "junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line" meeting sanitary standards. " Marvin could not connect to the sewer, since the land on which the ditch should be dug also belonged to the plant and the plant was in no hurry to give him such permission. Marvin paid. Attaching to the receipt when sending a short note - "Cowards". After some time, his father died (31-Mar-2004), Marvin went to bury him and while he was away, they cut off the light, water and sealed his workshop. After that, he locked himself in the workshop. Almost no one saw him.

The creation of the Armored Bulldozer took about two months, according to some reports, and about one and a half years, according to others. She sheathed it with twelve-millimeter steel sheets, laid with a centimeter layer of cement. Equipped with TV cameras with image display on monitors inside the cab. Equipped cameras with lens cleaning systems in case of blinding dust and debris. The prudent Marvin stocked up on food, water, ammunition and a gas mask. (Two Ruger-223 and one Remington-306 with cartridges.) Using the remote control, he lowered the armored box onto the chassis, locking himself inside. To lower this shell onto the bulldozer's cab, Hemeyer used a homemade crane. “As he lowered it, Hemeyer realized that after that he would not get out of the car,” police experts said. And at 14:30 I left the garage.

Marvin drew up a list of goals ahead of time. All whom he considered it necessary to take revenge on.
"Sometimes, as he put it in the notes, reasonable men must do unreasonable things."
To begin with, he drove through the territory of the plant, carefully demolishing the building of the plant management, production workshops and in general everything to the last barn.

Then he moved around the town. I removed the facades from the houses of the members of the city council. Demolished the building of the bank, which tried to press on it through early repayment of the mortgage loan. He destroyed the buildings of the Ixel Energy gas company, which after a fine refused to refuel its kitchen gas cylinders, the building of the mayor's office, the office of the city council, the fire department, a warehouse, several residential buildings that belonged to the mayor of the city. To a heap he ransacked the editorial office of the local newspaper and the public library. In short, he demolished everything that had anything to do with the local authorities, including their private houses. Moreover, he showed good awareness of who owns what.

They tried to stop him. First, the local sheriff with assistants. Let me remind you that the bulldozer was equipped with a centimeter spaced armor. Local police used nines and shotguns. With a clear result. With zero. A local SWAT squad was raised on alert. Then the forest rangers. SWAT had grenades, the rangers had assault rifles. Some particularly dashing sergeant jumped from the roof onto the hood of the bulldozer and tried to throw a stun grenade into the exhaust pipe. It's hard to say what he wanted to achieve - the son of a bitch Himeyer, as it turned out, welded a grate there, so the only thing that the bulldozer lost as a result was the pipes itself. The sergeant, of course, also survived. The driver's teardrop did not take - the monitors could be seen in the gas mask.

Chimeyer actively fired back through the embrasures cut through the armor. Not a single person was hurt by its fire. Because he shot much higher than the heads. To put it simply, into the sky. However, the policemen no longer dared to approach him. In total, counting their rangers, about 40 people had gathered by that time. The bulldozer took over 200 hits from everything from service revolvers to M-16s and grenades. They tried to stop him with a hefty scraper. The Komatsu D355A easily shoved the scraper backwards into the front of the store and left it there. The car filled with explosives on the way of Chimeyer also did not give the desired result. The only achievement was the radiator punctured by a rebound - however, as the experience of quarrying shows, such bulldozers do not immediately pay attention even to a complete failure of the cooling system.

The Chimeier War ended at 4:23 pm.

As the governor of Colorado aptly put it, "the city looks like a tornado swept through it." The city was really damaged by $ 5,000,000, the plant - by $ 2,000,000. Given the scale of the town, this meant almost complete destruction. The plant never recovered from the attack and sold the area along with the ruins.

Some smart people wanted to put the bulldozer on a pedestal and make it a tourist attraction, but most insisted on melting it down. For the inhabitants of the town, this incident evokes, as you might guess, extremely mixed emotions.

“He was a nice guy,” recall people who knew Chimeier closely.

"You shouldn't have pissed him off." “If he was your friend, then it was your best friend. And if the enemy is the most dangerous, ”say Marvin's comrades.

Democracy is the biggest and most enduring myth of our time. Sometimes people appear who dispel this myth with their lives and history. Usually, to show “the most democracy of all democracies,” America is remembered. Well, I already wrote about one American case today. But for a long time I wanted to write about the story of a simple working guy, Marvin Himeyer, who proved that one person can make thousands of people think, albeit at the cost of his own life.

Marvin Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 - June 4, 2004) was an American welder who owned a muffler repair shop in Granby, Colorado. The town is microscopic, with 2200 inhabitants. He officially bought his land plot for a workshop and a shop for pretty decent money at an auction (something about $ 15,000, for this he sold his share in a large car service in Denver).

Granby, Colorado

Also, as a hobby, he built snowmobiles and in the winter rode them around Granby for newlyweds. Like a limousine. He even had an appropriate license (I never suspected that such an activity could be licensed at all). In my opinion, the uncle was quite good-natured and extremely cool. However, "While many people described Heemeyer as a likeable guy, others said he was not someone to cross." At one time he served in the Air Force, as an airfield technician, and since then has worked steadily in the engineering part. He lived to be fifty-two years old, not married (some kind of sad love story he had at one time).

Marvin had a bulldozer of this brand

The city administration refused permission to build a new road. The bank found fault with the registration of a mortgage loan and threatened to take away the house.

Hemeyer tried to restore justice by suing Mountain Park, but he lost the legal battle.

Several times the retail tax office, the fire inspection, sanitary inspection, the latter issued a fine of $ 2,500 for the enchanting "junk cars on the property and not being hooked up to the sewer line" meeting sanitary standards. " Marvin could not connect to the sewer, since the land on which the ditch should be dug also belonged to the plant and the plant was in no hurry to give him such permission. Marvin paid. Attaching to the receipt when sending a short note - "Cowards". After some time, his father died (31-Mar-2004), Marvin went to bury him and while he was away, they cut off the light, water and sealed his workshop. After that, he locked himself in the workshop. Almost no one saw him.

Finally, on June 4, 2004, Himayer took concrete revenge. For all.

The creation of the Armored Bulldozer took about two months, according to some reports, and about one and a half years, according to others. She sheathed it with twelve-millimeter steel sheets, laid with a centimeter layer of cement. Equipped with TV cameras with image display on monitors inside the cab. Equipped cameras with lens cleaning systems in case of blinding dust and debris. The prudent Marvin stocked up on food, water, ammunition and a gas mask. (Two "Ruger-223" and one "Remington-306" with cartridges.) Using the remote control, he lowered the armored box onto the chassis, locking himself inside. To lower this shell onto the bulldozer's cab, Hemeyer used a homemade crane. “As he lowered it, Hemeyer realized that after that he would not get out of the car,” police experts said. And at 14:30 I left the garage.

It looked like this:

Marvin drew up a list of goals ahead of time. All whom he considered it necessary to take revenge on.
"Sometimes, as he put it in the notes, reasonable men must do unreasonable things."

The pursuit

Sheriff's parking lot

Ruins of the Cement Factory Administration Mountain Park Inc.

To begin with, he drove through the territory of the plant, carefully demolishing the building of the plant management, production workshops and in general everything to the last barn. Then he moved around the town. I removed the facades from the houses of the members of the city council. Demolished the building of the bank, which tried to press on it through early repayment of the mortgage loan. He destroyed the buildings of the Ixel Energy gas company, which after a fine refused to refuel its kitchen gas cylinders, the building of the mayor's office, the office of the city council, the fire department, a warehouse, several residential buildings that belonged to the mayor of the city. To a heap he ransacked the editorial office of the local newspaper and the public library. In short, he demolished everything that had anything to do with the local authorities, including their private houses. Moreover, he showed good awareness of who owns what.

Cement factory Mountain Park Inc.

Municipal building that served as a hall and library

Liberty Bank

Himayer actively fired back through the embrasures cut through the armor. Not a single person was hurt by its fire. Because he shot much higher than the heads. To put it simply, into the sky. However, the policemen no longer dared to approach him. In total, counting their rangers, about 40 people had gathered by that time. The bulldozer took over 200 hits from everything from service revolvers to M-16s and grenades. They tried to stop him with a hefty scraper. "Komatsu D355A" easily shoved the scraper backwards into the front of the store and left it there. The car filled with explosives on the way of Himayer also did not give the desired result. The only achievement was the radiator punctured by a rebound - however, as the experience of quarrying shows, such bulldozers do not immediately pay attention even to a complete failure of the cooling system.

High-speed highway number 40

The "Himayer War" ended at 4:23 pm.

Himayer was not one to give up!

Destruction Map

They called him "Killdozer"

“He was a nice guy,” recall people who knew Chimeier closely.

"You shouldn't have pissed him off." “If he was your friend, then it was your best friend. And if the enemy is the most dangerous, ”say Marvin's comrades.

This is how Marvin Himeyer's action looked like:

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