• naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          6 months ago

          The guy mostly just wanted to pump his poo into the town river. He’s not a hero, just an angry boomer unfortunately :(

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              from Wikipedia

              —8<— The property had a rudimentary sewage storage solution in the form of a buried cement mixer left by the previous owners.[8] The cost to update the sewer system would be nearly double the $42,000 Heemeyer paid for the property.

              City officials told Heemeyer that putting in a septic tank was a less expensive alternative, but he rejected both options and said that the government not paying for the sewage line hookup was “extortion by government fiat”.[8] Despite these setbacks, he did not withdraw his annexation request and subsequently became part of the sewer district.[8] —>8—

              Seriously the whole thing is stupid, the community had a problem with sewage, he decided that since his sewage wasn’t his problem someone else should pay for it, they bent over backwards to accommodate him despite that. Giving him extensions and options and he decided rather than live in a society he’d rather spend time and money making a suicide bulldozer…

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    6 months ago

    The Wikipedia link is posted below

    On April 19, 2005, the town announced plans to scrap Heemeyer’s bulldozer. The plan involved dispersing individual pieces to many separate scrap yards to prevent souvenir-taking.

    I always wondered what happened to that thing