# Don't piss off a man with bulldozer.

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/21 "2013-05-12T15:14:59Z")

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> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#):
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> I’d rather have a Sherman with the 90mm tube than a Cat D-9.

Howsabout an M60A3 Patton?: [Shawn Nelson - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson)

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**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, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/22 "2013-05-12T15:45:43Z")

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You don’t think a 105mm tube might be overdoing it a bit?

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**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/23 "2013-05-12T16:32:08Z")

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> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#):
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> You don’t think a 105mm tube might be overdoing it a bit?

Too much club

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**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/24 "2013-05-12T17:19:50Z")

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In **1992** musician/comedian [Heywood Banks](http://www.heywoodbanks.com/) put out an album called [Treated and Released](http://www.comedyhome.com/Shopping/index.cfm?fa=shoppingItem&category=HBanks&webItemID=1002). The fifth song on the album is called _ **If I had a Bulldozer** _. The song describes how everyone would treat him with respect if he had a bulldozer, else he would invoke some “justice” with it. The chorus goes, “_If I had a diesel rig, With a big old blade, Treads just like a tank, I would have it made, Courtesy would reign, Arguments would cease, 'Cause everyone would know I’d squash them like a cheeeeeeeese!!!_”

In **2004** a guy named [Marvin Heemeyer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer) virtually destroyed the little town of Granby, Colorado with - you guessed it - a bulldozer. The bulldozer had treads “just like a tank” (see Heywood’s lyrics above). Heemeyer spent 18 months transforming the bulldozer into a tank by welding many layers of steel around it.

And now Barry Swegle has done it… :eek:

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2013, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dont-piss-off-a-man-with-bulldozer/658073/25 "2013-05-12T19:24:45Z")

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> [@Crafter\_Man](#):
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> …In **2004** a guy named [Marvin Heemeyer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer) virtually destroyed the little town of Granby, Colorado with - you guessed it - a bulldozer…

See post #2.

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