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Whatever you’re doing for Valentine’s Day, it can’t possibly top this man’s hobby. Joe, a Canadian, is digging out his basement. It’s been taking a while because he’s using only tiny, scale model earthmoving equipment. At the link, you can see a large number of photos and videos that he’s posted over the years.
Link -via Dave Barry
Did you love playing in sandboxes when you were a kid? It was fun to move dirt around with little toy bulldozers and dump trucks. Now there’s a company in Las Vegas that will let you do it for real. Dig This in Las Vegas invites ordinary, untrained people to move dirt under the supervision of skilled heavy equipment operators.
Link -via The Presurfer
Qu Liming learnd that the hard way. The stubborn man tried to block heavy machineries from digging by parking his car in the way … but this is what he got instead:
"I thought that would slow them down so we could talk, but it just made them mad," said Qu.
"They began to dig out all the earth around my car and my home so now it sits on a mountain all of its own I think as a warning to others," he added.
Now the silver Chrysler sits on top of its own mini-mountain nearly 60ft up in the air amid the 500,000 GBP construction site.
"I tried to climb up and fell all the way down – but the police said it was all my fault for being big-headed," wailed Qu.
Marvin Heemeyer spent a year and a half modifying a Komatsu D335A bulldozer into an “armored vehicle of vengeance”. On June 4th, 2004, he rampaged through the town of Granby, Colorado, smashing vehicles and buildings, including the homes of those he felt had plotted against him.
The overencumbered vehicle was obviously difficult to control, and swerved widely through the streets, but Heemeyer was still able to seek out and and hit his specific targets. The bulldozer effortlessly demolished cars and buildings, including the home of a former mayor, the office of a newspaper that had sided against him in an editorial, the businesses of a former city councilman, and the city hall. Despite the destruction of property, no people had been injured or killed. killdozer_city_hallThe remains of Granby city hallThe Granby Police requisitioned an industrial scraper to pit heavy equipment against heavy equipment, but the Killdozer merely shoved the lighter adversary aside.
Over $7 million in damage was done that day. Read the entire story at Damn Interesting. Link
