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'Killdozer' 20 years later: How and why a man went on a rampage through Granby in an armored bulldozer
 
06/04/2024 6:09:37 PM PDT · by wastedyears · 42 replies
Denver7 ^ | June 3-4, 2024 | Robert Garrison
GRANBY, Colo. — Twenty years ago, a man bent on destroying the town of Granby for perceived wrongs got into his modified bulldozer and went on a rampage that thrust the small mountain town into the national spotlight.
 

Dutch police use bulldozer to raze Hamas supporters’ camp in Amsterdam University
 
05/07/2024 11:58:49 AM PDT · by Ronaldus Magnus III · 43 replies
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Dutch police use bulldozer to raze Hamas supporters’ camp in Amsterdam University
 

23-year-old peace activist Rachel Corrie is crushed to death by Israeli bulldozer (This Day in History)
 
04/24/2024 7:43:00 AM PDT · by Judge Bean · 56 replies
History ^ | June 20, 2022 | Staff
An Israeli-owned bulldozer kills 23-year-old American woman Rachel Corrie on March 16, 2003, as she protests a demolition campaign that destroyed over a thousand homes in the Gaza Strip. Following the death of their daughter, Corrie’s parents filed a civil lawsuit against the state of Israel, asserting she had been intentionally killed—or that the soldier driving the Israel Defense Forces bulldozer had shown criminal negligence. That lawsuit was rejected by a Haifa judge in 2012, who found that the driver had not seen Corrie as she stood in the bulldozer’s path at the village of Rafah. The ensuing internal Israeli...
 

Israel flattened a West Bank pizzeria with a bulldozer after it used a picture of an elderly hostage in an advert, reports say
 
10/14/2023 7:16:22 PM PDT · by DeathBeforeDishonor1 · 34 replies
Business Insider ^ | 10/14/23 | Marta Biino
Israel destroyed a pizzeria in the West Bank town of Huwara after it used an image of an elderly woman who was held captive by Hamas in an advert, The Telegraph reported. The advert seemed to mock the woman, who appears next to an image of a pizza with accompanying text detailing an offer for a family-sized pizza, The Messenger reported. The woman, an elderly Holocaust survivor, was one of up to 150 hostages taken by Hamas following its surprise wave of attacks on October 7. In a video following her capture, the woman can be seen with a machine...
 

Tired Of Paying Toll Tax, Angry Villagers In Karnataka Use Bulldozer To Construct Road Of Their Own
 
05/06/2021 3:13:05 PM PDT · by Tolerance Sucks Rocks · 20 replies
The India Times ^ | April 8, 2021 | Basit Aijaz
While FASTag was seen as a transformative step to overcome various toll hurdles, the initiative doesn't have everyone's blessings. Ever since, FASTag was made mandatory for vehicles, there have been frequent commotions between locals and toll companies over concession. There has also been a growing demands of locals wanting a toll-free service as another option. However, as such a drastic rule change seems far from simple, it has led to people taking matters into their own hands. Tired of paying toll tax, villagers in coastal Karnataka, used a bulldozer to construct a 'parallel' road to bypass the booth. The residents...
 

State To Pay $475K To Family Man Run Over By Police Bulldozer While Being Chased For Illegally Growing Pot Plants
 
03/12/2021 1:20:41 PM PST · by Responsibility2nd · 62 replies
CBS Pittsburgh ^ | 03/11/2021
READING, Pa. (AP) — The state of Pennsylvania will pay $475,000 to the estate of a man who died underneath a bulldozer that Pennsylvania State Police had used to chase him for growing a handful of marijuana plants, according to a settlement revealed in court Thursday. Gregory Longenecker, a 51-year-old short-order cook and Grateful Dead fan, had fled into thick brush after being caught growing 10 marijuana plants on public land near Reading. His body was found under the treads of a Pennsylvania Game Commission bulldozer that state police had commandeered in pursuit. The lawsuit by Longenecker’s family contended that...
 

Police: Florida man stole bulldozer, ran down Biden signs
 
10/26/2020 10:53:38 AM PDT · by ameribbean expat · 82 replies
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A 26-year-old man has been accused of stealing a bulldozer from a Florida construction site, driving it into a neighborhood and knocking down campaign signs for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, according to authorities and homeowners. The man took the bulldozer in Haines City on Saturday and repeatedly destroyed Biden signs in full view of people who live in the neighborhood, witnesses said. James Blight was charged with grand theft auto and trespassing, according to the Haines City Police Department. ***** Police said Blight claimed he was too drunk at the time to remember what happened. It was not immediately...
 

[Catholic Caucus] New Icon for the Catholic Church in China: The Bulldozer of Qianyang
 
04/10/2019 3:38:10 PM PDT · by ebb tide · 6 replies
Fatima Perspectives ^ | April 9, 2019 | Chris Ferrara
[Catholic Caucus] New Icon for the Catholic Church in China: The Bulldozer of Qianyang The photo depicts a bulldozer in the process of demolishing the parish building of the “underground” Catholic Church in Qianyang, China, which housed a church on the second floor and a free medical clinic for the poor on the first. The video of the event is here.This, writes Sandro Magister, is how “[t]he Chinese regime is… applying its agreement with the Holy See…” That is, its secret agreement with the communist dictators in Beijing, whose pseudo-church, the Patriotic Catholic Association (PCA), the wizards of Vatican...
 

Man fleeing from officers in Pennsylvania killed by bulldozer
 
07/13/2018 9:38:34 AM PDT · by BBell · 81 replies
6abc.com ^ | 7/10/18
BERNVILLE, Pa. (WPVI) --Police say a bulldozer ran over and killed a man who was fleeing officers in Pennsylvania. State police say an employee with the Pennsylvania Game Commission was operating the bulldozer on game lands in Penn Township Monday morning when he saw a car parking in a field.
 

Topless woman, drives stolen bulldozer across Montana town and crashes into an apartment complex
 
07/02/2018 2:12:40 PM PDT · by EdnaMode · 94 replies
Daily Mail ^ | July 2, 2018 | Megan Sheets
A topless woman has been arrested for stealing a bulldozer and crashing it into an apartment complex. Heather Houston, 34, allegedly stole the front end loader from a construction site and drove it 5.5 miles across town to the apartments in Great Falls, Montana, on Sunday morning. Police say Houston then ran over a fence, damaged a car and hit the side of the complex. She then reportedly elevated the front end of the excavator so she could climb up into an apartment on the second floor. Molly Broxholm, a resident of the Fox Hollow Apartment Complex, said she was...
 

Suspect crushes police cruiser with stolen bulldozer
 
09/21/2017 9:07:13 AM PDT · by ItsOnlyDaryl · 18 replies
The Extract ^ | 9.19.17 | Editor
Police in Kankakee, Ill., released footage of a suspect in a stolen bulldozer lead officers in a short foot pursuit after crushing one of the department’s vehicles.
 

The Trump bulldozer
 
01/29/2017 4:49:06 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 31 replies
Axios ^ | Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen
We can't stress this enough: Watch closely the specific, substantive moves of the Trump White House. Try to block out the white noise of outlandish statements and unforced errors, and the hyperventilating they provoke. Otherwise, you miss the big — and in some cases, radical — changes coming our way. In fact, White House officials tell us they welcome what seem like needless distractions, because it allows them to jam through transformative, disruptive ideas and orders without focused public scrutiny of any particular item. (Remember the justified conflict-of-interest hysteria?) Read the weekend papers, and flick through cable, and the unambiguous...
 

ISIS executioner dubbed The Bulldozer is captured
 
06/01/2016 6:50:27 PM PDT · by BeauBo · 36 replies
Daily Mail Online (UK) ^ | 1 June 2016 | Simon Tomlinson
The militant has gained a bloody reputation as one of ISIS's most feared butchers after beheading dozens of prisoners and amputating young children. He has infamously been pictured in black robes and a mask while wielding a three-foot sword to behead his victims. ...The obese extremist, a member of the terror group's so-called Chopping Committee, is seen lying half-naked in the back of a truck with his hands tied behind his back. Crowds gather round to take pictures of the hulking jihadi, who appears to be grimacing, before he is driven off by Syrian Armed Forces in the footage posted...
 

Construction Workers Settle Argument with Bulldozer Battle (in China)
 
04/18/2016 2:21:39 PM PDT · by upbeat5 · 20 replies
New York Post ^ | April 18, 2016 | AP Staff
BEIJING — Police in northern China say an argument between construction workers escalated into a demolition derby-style clash of heavy machinery that left at least two bulldozers flipped over in a street. In online video taken Saturday, several bulldozers are seen ramming each other while passenger cars scurry away from the cloud of dust. The video shows one driver running unhurt out of his toppled bulldozer, a fast-moving type also known as a wheel loader, while a friendly bulldozer tries to lift it back up. Video at link
 

ISIS's masked monster: Revealed, the tubby jihadi executioner dubbed The Bulldozer [tr]
 
10/09/2015 9:42:12 AM PDT · by C19fan · 13 replies
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 9, 2015 | Jay Akbar
He is a 20-stone savage who has amassed a bloody reputation as one of ISIS's most unsightly executioners. The obese extremist known only as 'The Bulldozer' has beheaded unarmed men and amputated young children as part of the terror group's so-called 'Chopping Committee'. And just like Jihadi John, the ISIS executioner who was eventually unmasked as Mohammed Emwazi, the coward has never dared to show his face on camera.
 
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