Just learned about this guy via a podcast.
i expect lots of these sorts of guys going forward, as material conditions get worse. pretty easy to do something big when you have nonthing left to lose
Just learned about this guy via a podcast.
i expect lots of these sorts of guys going forward, as material conditions get worse. pretty easy to do something big when you have nonthing left to lose
If you think this was about paying taxes then you’re dead wrong. The guy was on a power trip because he thought the idea of being a “small business owner” gave him a blank check to be an asshole. I technically live in Granby and have spoken to the locals about this guy and either the chuds praise him or normal people would just call out this asshole. The dude was a racist :lmayo: WASP who hated anyone who had any color in their skin, Catholics, trees and being told “no” according to many locals who lived there before I moved in. The guy broke up with his girlfriend because she hired a black guy. He thought the whole area should only be for white people. Leftist should really stop glorifying his actions because it cuts against all of arguments.
There is more to the story and one of the guys from Well There's Your Problem actually did a really good video on it.
Long story not so short:
Heemeyer ran a muffler shop in a building he bought for $42,000, this building originally was part of a concrete plant which was sold off a while before this. Some time later the original plant owners bought back most of the plant and wanted to get all of it back by buying his land for a pretty good price. He was hilariously unreasonable, Heemeyer wanted $250,000 for his piece of shit plot, couple days later concrete plant said sure we'll do that so he raised it to $375,000. Two months later the concrete plant comes up with $350,000, he counters with giving an actually on paper offer of $450,000 so that went nowhere and the concrete plant just bought another plot next to Heemeyer so he did the reasonable thing and went on with his life, right?
Of course not, he started a NIMBY campaign and lost it when support vanished after the company made a bunch of concessions and actually did something about their dust and noise polution. He then sued them to hold up the process, remember that one.
Heemeyer also had a bit of a sewage problem as in at this point the concrete truck drum his toilet emptied into was full and he was pumping his literal shit into a irrigation ditch to make space. About a decade earlier he did the paperwork for a sewer hookup, when he was told he would have to pay for this himself even though he was now part of the on paper sewer district, he didn't actually get hooked up. This caught up to him now when the town got complaints from the absolute shit stench he was creating since this ditch only flowed when it rained. The sewer district only now realized that he wasn't hooked up and forced him to stop shitting into a concrete drum. He asked for leniency and was granted a lot more time to solve this problem. One of the things which got him even more angry was that a sewer board member was the co-owner of a local digging company, he saw this as a plot to get him to pay the digging company for making the sewer trench.
This is when he got an offer from the concrete plant. Drop the quite hopeless lawsuit and they would let him up hook up to the sewer line they would have to make for their new building and would even pay for extra work to also connect his building. Heemeyer hung up on them. He later lost the lawsuit and with it the offer for a free sewer line.
This is when he sold the shop and all his tools and he got around $400,000. When the dozer failed to sell though he saw it as a sign from god that it was time to get revenge aaaand the rest is history.
So along with what you said, guy was also small business tyrant who didn't get his way because he was an asshole to the point of shooting himself in the foot just to spite others, repeatedly.
You forgot to mention that the sewer line connection was going to cost about $75k to $100k because the city just wanted him to get connected and end the whole fiasco. This is insane considering that it cost $15k to just hook up and not even dig or pipe. The city was going to give him the bureaucratic part for free. This dude took the city and county to court for about eight years and spent roughly around $200k in lawyers. Also when he sold the property he moved his money around so that the city couldn’t go after his estate. So the city I lived in had to rebuild a city without any reimbursement from the chud who created the whole problem. And he did millions worth of damage. He even purposely destroyed the trees the city planted because other small business owners thought they took away from their businesses because reasons. Not to mention that he saw where his business was heading. Muffler shops were on a hard decline around the early 00’s because cars were becoming more complicated when it came to car exhaust systems.