# Don't piss off a man with bulldozer. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073 "2013-05-11T13:12:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/1 "2013-05-11T13:12:03Z")
The pictures are pretty impressive. 😛 For a random, senseless act of destruction this ranks pretty high. 😃 That poor truck will never be the same. Anyone remember James Garner’s movie Tank? Same idea. > **[Angry neighbor goes on the rampage in a BULLDOZER as he destroys four homes...](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2322943/Neighbor-goes-nuts-fence-line-dispute-uses-bulldozer-destroy-homes-knocking-utility-pole-cutting-power-thousands-Seattle.html)** > > Barry Swegle, 51, had a long-running dispute with his neighbors and launched a bulldozing rampage on Friday in Port Angeles. > **[Bulldozer rampage demolishes one house, flattens truck in Washington](https://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-man-bulldozes-houses-washington-state-20130510-story.html)** > > SEATTLE — A man in Port Angeles, Wash., went on a rampage with a bulldozer Friday afternoon after quarreling with a neighbor and plowed through four structures, a pickup truck and a power line, cutting electricity to homes as far as 20 miles away. > [@](#): > > A Washington man fed up with his neighbors went on a bulldozing rampage on Friday, damaging four homes, knocking one off its foundation and cutting power to thousands of people. > > Barry Swegle, 51, had a long-running dispute with his neighbors over a fence line he felt was too close to his home in Port Angeles, west of Seattle, and simply ‘went nuts,’ neighbors aid. > > Mr Swegle was arrested on Friday on charges of malicious mischief following the incident. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/2 "2013-05-11T13:20:51Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > Anyone remember James Garner’s movie Tank? Same idea. Actually [this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer) guy would be closer, if crazier and more [prepared](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer#Bulldozer_modification) after turning his bulldozer into [this](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Killdozer.jpg) with concrete armor. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/3 "2013-05-11T13:28:21Z")
So, he was pissed that his neighbor’s fence was too close? Wonder how tight those prison cells are feeling. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/4 "2013-05-11T13:28:58Z")
Thankfully this guy wasn’t quite as crazy or angry. The reports don’t mention any issues arresting him. I can understand his frustration. Neighbor problems are the pits. Guess this time it just boiled over. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/5 "2013-05-11T13:31:15Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/6 "2013-05-11T13:34:12Z")
By issues I meant he didn’t resist arrest. He knocked a few houses down and went to jail. The other guy Der Trihs mentioned nearly took out a Swat team and committed suicide to avoid arrest. A much more tragic story. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/7 "2013-05-11T13:38:09Z")
I know a couple who were going through a divorce and the guy did this sorta thing to the house that his ex was likely going to be awarded. He used a front end loader/tractor to bust through windows and walls, dumping loads of composted horse manure into the building. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/8 "2013-05-11T13:43:08Z")
**Don’t piss off a man with bulldozer.** My grandfather left me two pieces of advice. That, and if you ever go back in time don’t step on anything because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can’t imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/9 "2013-05-11T15:19:25Z")
I’d rather have a Sherman with the 90mm tube than a Cat D-9. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/10 "2013-05-11T16:07:50Z")
IIRC, there was also an episode of _Malcolm in the Middle_ in which Hal got hold of a steamroller and did some damage. Hmm. Now that Bryan Cranston (who played Hal) is on _Breaking Bad,_ I’m wondering if they’ll do a shout out to that episode in _Breaking Bad_. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/11 "2013-05-11T16:56:10Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > I’d rather have a Sherman with the 90mm tube than a Cat D-9. Even one of [these](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/IDF-D9-Zachi-Evenor-001.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/12 "2013-05-11T18:00:25Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > **Don’t piss off a man with bulldozer.** > > My grandfather left me two pieces of advice. That, and if you ever go back in time don’t step on anything because even the tiniest change can alter the future in ways you can’t imagine. a pity you didn’t listen
 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chewsick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chewsick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewsick)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/13 "2013-05-11T21:46:57Z")
Thanks for the story – kind of a funny. Way OT, and I’m sorry about that, but I first thought on seeing the thread title that JosĂ© (pronounced dzozĂ©) BovĂ© might have been back. Remember that guy? I think he might have been a Basque separatist, but definitely an anarchist, but he would frequently make the news when he and his confederates dismantled McDonald’s after McDonald’s somewhere in France. Thought this thread might have been about him. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/14 "2013-05-12T01:14:53Z")
Wow. Big mess. I quite like the “malicious mischief” charge: it somehow sounds like the minor naughtiness of a young child. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chewsick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6f9a4e/32.png) [@chewsick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chewsick)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/15 "2013-05-12T02:55:09Z")
> [@Celyn](#): > > I quite like the “malicious mischief” charge: it somehow sounds like the minor naughtiness of a young child. 😃 Inorite? I would have thought a “reckless” in there might have been apropos. Now I can’t remember why I registered a few days ago – too much good stuff on here to _not_ get pleasantly distracted! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/16 "2013-05-12T04:01:05Z")
[Quote=Ranger Jeff] I’d rather have a Sherman with the 90mm tube than a Cat D-9. [/quote] > [@Alessan](#): > > Even one of [these](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/IDF-D9-Zachi-Evenor-001.jpg)? If they’d add a 90mm tube to it we can talk. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/17 "2013-05-12T13:42:13Z")
Some more details. More in the article. This is just the highlights. I see a house trailer was the bulldozers first target. They always ruin property values. [http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130512/NEWS/305129984/neighbor-of-gales-addition-suspect-cites-property-line-dispute](http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20130512/NEWS/305129984/neighbor-of-gales-addition-suspect-cites-property-line-dispute) > [@](#): > > PORT ANGELES — A neighbor of Barry Swegle’s said the two had argued in the past about the line between their properties before today’s rampage that destroyed two of the neighbor’s houses. > > Dan Davis, 74, and others told of a man on heavy machinery tearing into homes, rolling over a pickup truck and smashing through a portion of Gales Addition east of town. > > Barry Alan Swegle, 51, was being held Saturday in the Clallam County jail for investigation of malicious mischief in the first degree. > > Davis said Swegle had driven past Davis’ property Friday morning and made obscene gestures at him. > > Then between 11:30 a.m. and noon, according to multiple witness accounts, Swegle allegedly got into a logging bulldozer — parked on Swegle’s property a stone’s throw east of Davis’ lot — and drove west along a dirt alleyway toward a manufactured home on Davis’ property. > > Davis said he had been working on this house in preparation for putting it up for rent. > > Davis said that as Swegle traveled west, he lowered the bulldozer’s blade and drove through a portion of Davis’ chain-link fence, taking out a buried phone line and destroying the house’s connection to nearby power lines. > > Davis said Swegle then turned the bulldozer around and headed east, plowing into the manufactured home on Davis’ property and pushing it completely off its foundation and into a neighboring house. > > Chris Main, who lives across East Pioneer Road to the south of Davis’ property, said Swegle then backed the bulldozer up and demolished Davis’ Ford F-250 pickup truck, knocking over a power pole before heading east again. > > “That was a sight to behold,” said neighbor and witness Phil Riley, describing the bulldozer backing up three times over Davis’ truck. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/18 "2013-05-12T14:13:27Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > Even one of [these](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/IDF-D9-Zachi-Evenor-001.jpg)? :eek: Look out, West Bank settlers! ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/19 "2013-05-12T14:33:41Z")
“That was a sight to behold”? I like this guy. ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/20 "2013-05-12T15:00:15Z")
Destroyer man should come and visit me, as there’s a big high-rise being demolished just across the road. Think of all the fun he could have helping with that. 🙂 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073.md?page=2)