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(KUSA - Denver) NewsFlash Oddball retrofits bulldozer into a "poor-man's tank" and buildings are a tumblin' down (live news)   (kusa.com) divider line
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StomachMonkey
2004-06-04 6:28:07 PM  
I blame too much SimCity
 
Eddie_Dean_NY
2004-06-04 6:30:39 PM  
Cool, a new level of going postal.
 
CuriousForge
2004-06-04 6:31:32 PM  
I wanna ride!
 
Garanimal
2004-06-04 6:32:10 PM  
Tanks for the memories!

I'd hit it...
 
Marcus Licinius Crassus
2004-06-04 6:32:11 PM  
Awesome.

Still it doesn't beat the guy who stole a tank in San Diego a few years back. As I recall, they dropped a couple of grenades down a hatch and asploded him to death.
 
Phonk
2004-06-04 6:32:36 PM  
I blame violent video games.
 
i_can_only_monitor
2004-06-04 6:32:59 PM  
Is it just me or does the pic of the 'news team' look like they're all kinda 'tarded?
 
schief2
2004-06-04 6:33:03 PM  
All right, who's got a link to the video of the dude with the REAL tank in San Diego from a few years ago?
 
tensionfilter
2004-06-04 6:33:40 PM  
I blame Bush, Kerry and George Washington...
 
thegipper
2004-06-04 6:33:53 PM  
Got it on the TV now. I dont know how long before these news bastages have their helicopters up there in the Mtns (hah hah).
 
StomachMonkey
2004-06-04 6:34:06 PM  
Actually, I hear everyone is overreacting. This is just the History Channel's version of 'Pimp My Ride'.
 
DaLinuxNut
2004-06-04 6:34:08 PM  
Liberty City officials unavailable for comment. Last rumored to have brought in the military since suspect has a 6 badge wanted level.
 
Befuddled
2004-06-04 6:34:11 PM  
When bulldozers that are made into makeshift tanks are outlawed, only outlaws will have bulldozers that are made into makeshift tanks.
 
Sandelaphon
2004-06-04 6:34:26 PM  
i wonder how many stars he's up to now?
 
holeinmybucket
2004-06-04 6:34:40 PM  
"Poor-man's tank" ha.
 
poopmasterflex
2004-06-04 6:34:50 PM  
Marcus Licinius Crassus Still it doesn't beat the guy who stole a tank in San Diego a few years back. As I recall, they dropped a couple of grenades down a hatch and asploded him to death.

He got high centered on a divider.. they cut the lock, and shot him in the head.

No grenades.. but maybe in the made for TV version they'll do that.
 
Weaps [TotalFark]
2004-06-04 6:34:52 PM  
Technically, the San Diego guy wasn't driving a tank, but a Bradley armored personnel carrier.
 
i_can_only_monitor
2004-06-04 6:34:59 PM  
Phonk

I miss video games....
 
a_cure_for_gravity
2004-06-04 6:35:10 PM  
[image from images.google.com too old to be available]

YOU BASTARD!!
 
H2OPoloPunk
2004-06-04 6:35:22 PM  
Someone raise the threat level!!! They're coming!
 
Salty8482
2004-06-04 6:36:16 PM  
"Leave it to the Democrats to let the Spaniards back into the country."
 
waitaminute...
2004-06-04 6:36:31 PM  
Lurline Curran, Grand County manager, says the person is driving a large piece of Caterpillar machinery.

Caterpillar is readying their next ad campaign around this.
 
Bob_Doles_Penis
2004-06-04 6:36:34 PM  
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Wanted for questioning.
 
fresburger
2004-06-04 6:36:41 PM  
StomachMonkey: I blame too much SimCity

Oh man... as soon as I RTFA, I thought... why do I never see this headline when I'm playing SimCity

[image from kusa.com too old to be available]

/classic
 
VTSquire
2004-06-04 6:36:43 PM  
sounds like fun!
 
schief2
2004-06-04 6:36:43 PM  
Here's a bit better story from another Denver TV station. Sounds like some 'hilarity' is most definitely ensuing out there in Granby:

According to witnesses, the man first ran the bulldozer through the library and town hall, which are in one building and also smashed through the Sky-Hi newspaper office, demolishing it.

There are unconfirmed reports the bulldozer driver is armed with a large-caliber automatic weapon. Officers said the weapon being used by the man was the size of a 50-caliber machine gun.

The Colorado State Patrol closed U.S. Highways 34 and 40 around Granby. The mountain town is located at the intersection of the two highways.

Several eyewitnesses told 7NEWS that the scene in the downtown area is chaotic and numerous law enforcement officers were in the area, shooting at the bulldozer.

The bulldozer driver also ran through the cement plant and local Xcel Energy building, and over at least one police car, according to witnesses. He then headed west out of town, pursued by law enforcement vehicles.

A short time later, he turned around drove back into town and at 4:30 pm. was attempting to knock down the Gambles Department Store. The store has a large basement and the bulldozer may be immobilized in the building. That's where a SWAT team was moving in at 4:30 p.m.

The bulldozer was heavily fortified, with steel plates welded onto it and also had areas for the driver to shoot out of. One witness described some areas on the bulldozer as "gun turrets."
 
Bradester
2004-06-04 6:36:56 PM  
They are doing everything they can to try and stop him?

Did they...oh I don't know...try to shoot him?!?
 
BobFarker
2004-06-04 6:37:03 PM  
This with armor.
 
Hotblack
2004-06-04 6:37:03 PM  
I would say this would be a job for the Green Lantern. Or possibly Thundra.
 
DaVenda
2004-06-04 6:37:26 PM  
Granby is not a very big town.
If "several" buildings have been destroyed, this nut may very well have taken out half the town by now
 
Bill_Wick's_Friend
2004-06-04 6:38:09 PM  
Sounds like "the man" is trying to take away this citizen's right to bear arms.

Show me in the constitution where it says that a man may not retro-fit his back-hoe with weaponry and steel blast-resistant windows? When the govt comes to sieze your weapons and force your children into re-education camps you'll be glad that some of your neighbours have home made tanks!
 
Wampuscat
2004-06-04 6:38:47 PM  
Go Dude! A new MTB Trail
 
pdrake
2004-06-04 6:38:51 PM  
news story says D9 . . .

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Hellshad
2004-06-04 6:38:59 PM  
TONKA IS THA TERRORIST!!!
 
fisherman62
2004-06-04 6:39:04 PM  
should have "hero" tag. who hasn't wanted to bulldoze an entire town?
 
Axoplasm
2004-06-04 6:39:06 PM  
Dude, that's $7 a tile!!!!
 
algol
2004-06-04 6:39:37 PM  
George Tenet is really not taking this whole resignation thing well.
 
The_Sofa_of_Death
2004-06-04 6:39:54 PM  
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basstovin
2004-06-04 6:40:17 PM  
Ban Tonka
 
Harry Pooter
2004-06-04 6:41:01 PM  
It's probably Bush's fault.
 
red_beard_neo
2004-06-04 6:41:02 PM  
They are doing everything they can to try and stop him?

Did they...oh I don't know...try to shoot him?!?

Most civilized people don't reach for the guns first. I'm sure they'd much rather resolve this without bloodshed, especially seeing as no one's been hurt.
 
Sloth_DC
2004-06-04 6:41:37 PM  
should have "hero" tag. who hasn't wanted to bulldoze an entire town?

Oh, yah, Wichita, KS.
 
The_Sofa_of_Death
2004-06-04 6:41:41 PM  
Several eyewitnesses told 7NEWS that the scene in the downtown area is chaotic and numerous law enforcement officers were in the area, shooting at the bulldozer.

That's it lads, shoot the tyres... oh.
 
Bill_Wick's_Friend
2004-06-04 6:41:41 PM  
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Blame James Garner.
 
CaptainWes
2004-06-04 6:42:01 PM  
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THE STREETS WILL FLOW WITH THE BLOOD OF THE NON BELIEVERS!!
 
tonesskin
2004-06-04 6:42:19 PM  
If only we used more racial profiling.
 
rurdy
2004-06-04 6:42:51 PM  
lol.......Please e-mail photographs to de­nnew­s[nospam-﹫-backwards]len­n­a­hcrevn­e­d­e­ht*co­m
 
Sloth_DC
2004-06-04 6:43:02 PM  
Most civilized people don't reach for the guns first. I'm sure they'd much rather resolve this without bloodshed, especially seeing as no one's been hurt.

Oh, the town cops are clerics, who can only use blunt weapons?
 
Bill_Wick's_Friend
2004-06-04 6:43:04 PM  
...oops. sorry bob dole's penis. didn't see you GISing the same pic.

my bad.
 
Priapulid
2004-06-04 6:43:10 PM  
Why do they refer to the bulldozer as an "armored vehicle" mid way through the article??? I mean it is a heavy vehicle no doubt, but doesnt "armored" imply tank/APC???
 
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