Army Veteran Steals Tank and DESTROYS San Diego REACTION!! | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!! 

I was a kid in San Diego when this happened, years later I was attached to that same National Guard unit that tank was stolen from. Just note that those tanks were there just for weekend training, they weren't ever armed or close to being armed. The only time there are armed tanks is at national training facilities/military bases for range training. National Guard facilities are just buildings in a city, they are not what you would call a military base.

As a San Diegan, I remember this well. I have travelled all of these streets/freeways all my life. Watching the live news coverage was crazy, a bit surreal. I don't recall the number of crushed vehicles there were but it was quite a few. Can't imagine how the people in those neighborhoods felt, knowing there lives, homes, vehicles, businesses were in jeopardy. Unfortunately, this was before everyone had cellphones or there would be more footage as there were witnesses all along the route the tank travelled. And yes, it's often said we have the best weather in the country.

I served in the US Marine Reserves...My company Gunnery Sergeant was the police officer who got the hatch open... long live Gunny Paxton....Semper Fidelis!

“You’re just one bad day away from being me.” - The Punisher

The armored bulldozer is killdozer marvin heymeyer. You should react to that. Hes looked at by some people as a hero who fought back against the state and people who wronged him

I lived in San Diego when this happened. I remember they showed the ending live on the news. The cops standing on top of the tank, firing rounds into the open hatch.

Losing my mother messed me up for a long time. I knew that I would lose her eventually but it was the way she died that pushed me over the edge. My father died years before but he passed away peacefully while asleep so it was a little easier to deal with. My mother died a horrific death due to cancer and at one point she begged us to shoot her and put her out of her misery. She was in such bad shape at the end that I wouldn't let my kids go to the hospital to see her. It took me years to get over it.

I remember this (although I was a teen at the time). I still feel the same way about it though. I think it was completely justified. He was trying to harm innocent people. He needed to be stopped.

The fact that people expected some sort or leniency after he stole a tank and committed countless acts of attempted murder is ludicrous to me.

The armored up dozer was "killdozer". RU-vid has the documentary titled "Tread".

I'm convinced y'all have Mike chained up in the basement feeding him bread and water

I was in Technical Training school at Lowry Air Force Base when this went down. A Master Sergeant asked all of us students if any of us were from San Diego. When I raised my hand, I was allowed into the NCO lounge to view the hubbub.

I remember being in middles school and watching this live in class as it happened, my school was about 8 miles away from that scene

I was a kid in the 90s so wasn’t super aware of the news, but watching these videos I realize the 90s, especially in Cali, were wild.

I remember this! I was in my mid 20's. Watched it live on TV!

You should react to the Killdozer. That shit was crazy! That's the one Dave was talking about at the beginning.

Having disiplinary problems while in the service isn't really something to take into consideration. The military is often very strict, and just like in the civilian world, the people you work with and for can be out to make your life miserable. Especially in the Marines back then, if you weren't very good at running, they'd view your every action under a microscope. 1/2 a second late to formation? You get the book thrown at you. Your alarm clock not go off? You just got written up as UA and your first seargent labels you as a flight risk, sending you to the brig for a month.

Please do everything you can to Bail Mike out . Now i am saddened by his absence knowing the truth . Is there a go fund me for him ? I thought he travelled or was just having a break/ healthy family time but not Jail . Oh no ,,,,,,

A guy that at any moment would’ve laid his life down for his country would wound up getting killed by said country. Yes everyone makes their own decisions in life and yes some argue the shooting is justified or not but it’s sad to think something could’ve been done to check up on his well being.

they keep giving him excuse after excuse many many people have hard times and bad luck. People lose their kids in natural disasters house get flooded or demolished and so on and so forth

Lol 10:37 "the height of rush hour" but the video is showing weekend non-traffic.

2:28. I pass those road signs every day. It's between Mission Valley and Kearney Mesa just north of the city. I wasn't there when it happened, but now I'm gonna try to find some landmarks and see what's there today vs back then just out of curiosity.

The OKC bombing happened my senior year of high school less than a month before our senior trip to Dallas,Tx. On our 1st night at the hotel 4 of us tried sneaking up to the rooftop pool we got off the elevator and as we were trying to find the pool alarms went off and we thought we were busted and turn to run back to the elevator and the door to the area the elevator was at closed & locked automatically and we were freaking out!!! We had to run down like 13 flights of stairs, alarms going off and insanely loud in the stairway and didn’t see anyone else the whole way down and all we were thinking about was the OKC bombing and if we were gonna get blown up before we got down to the ground. We did make it and when we got to the lobby we could see the parking lot full of ppl and being told the hotel is being evacuated we needed to go to the parking lot.

I lived in San Diego up until a few months prior to this incident. I attended Mesa College and the company I worked for did business with Sharp Hospital. I was very familiar with the area and it really is fortunate that he didn't kill anyone. Scary to watch on the news at the time.

Wow!! I had never heard about this. But I was a mid teen at the time so obviously my biggest interest was not the tv. However I did see lot's of footage about the Oklahoma bombing and being that it was a big part of his decision to do this I am surprised that I didn't see it or hear about it from anyone else. Regardless of his mental state and the bad luck that lead him to do this. Lethal force was the right call especially when you are dealing with someone that is trained. He definitely went into this knowing it wasn't just a mission to retaliate with the hospital. You know he had to have gone into this knowing it would ultimately be a suicide mission. He knew they would have to kill him to stop him. But in his mind he clearly had nothing left to lose. A person with nothing left to lose and in the mental state he was is extremely dangerous!! As you stated it could have easily been much worse if he started out with killing civilians!! I am sure by now especially after Oklahoma and 9-11 they have much better security for any kind of access to things like this!!

This would honestly make a great movie

Yes, the US Constitution remedied that screwed up no bail situation found in English law. One of the basic human rights abuses the Founding Fathers fixed once free of the UK.

Nice to see someone remembering "falling down" movie...underrated...

Yes kids should out live their parents but if you have never loss a parent, you will never understand. You don't walk around smiling because it's suppose to be that way. No loss hurt more than losing a mother or a child.

I think it depends on HOW your parents go. My father was robbed and murdered while he was battling cancer, so my grief STILL hasn't subsided, because I want justice. Who knows what someone's headspace is. I've lost 2 family members in 14 months. 6 in the last 6 years. It weighs on you when you can't let it out.

Well, the only logical move after watching this and the Hollywood shootout is to watch the rampage of the killdozer

Popomedic has some good damn content.

The sound track when he first showed the tank was hilarious

I can't believe even a single person asked whether it was necessary to use lethal force. Of course it was. He could've flatten cars with people in them.

Where is the old man!!?!?! Lol

I remember this. It was so bizarre. Camp Pendleton is right there. You’ve got Marines everywhere. I don’t think that’s where I would go on a tank rampage.

I don’t know if it would be way too long of a video being a hour long but I’d love to see you guys react to “the Story and footage of LA’s most infamous heist gone wrong” by Wendigoon.

Every cop thinks this killing was justified, but to be fair, every cop thinks every killing is justified, unless it's a cop who dies.

As a native of San Diego, we are very much anti-imperialist. First this joyriding in a tank then a guy blowing up an amphibious landing vessel. SD is not the weirdest city but weird things happen here.

If we coulda got footage of a cobra attacking a patton tank in San Diego that would be legendary footage but glad that didn’t happen for pedestrians sake

Tragic all around… there but by the Grace of God go I.

I remember when this happened in Daygo, we were making sure not to drive in the location this but was in... But it was reported he was everywhere.

Them Utah blokes are wired different

Where he stole the tank from is on the same street that goes to the hospital. He may have thought of that later but he definitely didn’t go straight there. He drove around neighborhoods for a while. And I worked many years with Officer Paxton after this so it was ruled justified if anyone is wondering

I was thinking that the details sounded off . I had heard a story about a man with a tank on the rampage like this but was thinking it happened in Colorado or Montana some place like that. I actually saw a documentary or something about it on Netflix or something. It was bothering me so I looked it up and yeah there was a guy named Marvin Heemeyer but it was a modified bulldozer that he took and destroyed buildings with in Colorado in 2004 it wasn’t technically a tank but they referred to it as a homemade tank bc of how he modified it. I guess that’s the story I heard and didn’t know about this one.

who the hell are the psychopaths who are criticizing the police for taking this guy out. look at what happened in uvalde. This guy might have a sad backstory but that's not excuse for going on a murderous rampage, the cops were right he could have killed so many people and been practically unstopabble, when they got a chance to stop him they simply had to take it. I actually cant wrap my head around people being mad that a murderous terrorist trying to run people over with a tank got killed.

I live about 5 or 6 hours north of San Diego and this was on almost every channel when it happened. I was just a kid but I remembered it so well.

Check out the Nairobi siege video about the SAS operator. Keep up the good work

Wasn’t a cop yet when that happened but that has been my patrol area for 22 years :)

I wouldn't use the word Enjoy or Entertained but the video was informative and interesting. TRAGIC is probably a more accurate name for this genre of video but I personally don't want to see this kind of thing as a regular video category. Just my two cents. Or pence.

A tank on the loose without anti-tank weaponry is just about unstoppable. There could of been 50 police cars surrounding it and he could of simply ran right over all of them. Cars would provide zero resistance against tank treads. He could of even probably drive right through homes if he wanted to. No standard firearm would of penetrated the tank and I highly doubt any police force was rocking anti-tank missile launchers, lol. Until perhaps the chopper showed up with missiles, I'd say that guy was wide out in the open to cause as much destruction as he wanted. Thankfully he literally didn't have that completely on his mind because he could of done far worse within the areas they showed him driving through.

Reminds me of the movie Falling Down.

Popomedic makes the BEST stories. Watch his video on Crips gang vs US Army Rangers. It’s hilarious and so bad ass

Quite a few comments, but I don't see this mentioned ... (not reading them all) Direction of travel. That map highlighted the way a car or ambulance would drive. He needed to cross that interstate to avoid the distance going over that bridge at the exit. He could've exited onto an entrance ramp and mad a quick left, and been right there at the hospital!

I would never steal a tank and crash about. Its just bad to do such things. Sure it looks fun . But you could hurt someone. I would never be that recalcitrant. Unless someone pissed me off.

I understand the guys pain but all humans know that we have a line in the sand and if you cross it the results are open ended at least in the USA. He crossed the line and why it is tragic the officer gave both him (Tank driver) and the public peace. I can tell you it changed that police officers life by doing what he did. That is not me saying all police are right shooting people but in this case I think he was justified.

I think this may have been an inspiration for Killdozer. But Marvin Heemeyer did nothing wrong.

I remember both events! It was absolutely insane!! I honestly did not know his life collapsed around him and caused him to steal a tank!

The joker once said in a Batman comic. All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That’s how far the world is from me. Just one bad day.

They are really lucky that he didn't get his hands on an M1 because you can't shoot down through the hatch like you can on the M60.

real life GTA 5 stars

11:14 That is a weird thing for people. If you look like and act like your supposed to be somewhere most people won't look twice.

I remembered when this happened! I was attending class at Mesa College less than 1/4 of a mile from where it all started. The power went out and our professor was instructed to release us from class by officials. He refused to release us from class and continued his lecture. US History from a Black Perspective was the class. California had just changed the requirement for a Bachelor's degree to include 2 semesters of US history from an "ethnic perspective". No one dared to leave during the emergency. I drove home after the professor released us (after the class was over) and I saw absolute destruction on the streets, the 163 and approaching the 805.

Imagine filling out that insurance claim, car ran over by tank… everybody would have heard ab it tho

These videos keep reminding me how weird and insane the U.S. is.

I've noticed where I live the police officers who had just gotten out of the military aren't very nice.

What would you do? You don’t have a choice. You don’t know someone’s story, you just assume they want to kill so the cops had to do it.

That single shot was the correct move, unfortunately with the way the tank is laid out there's little chance that a connected shot wouldn't be extremely dire or lethal. ALL of the available shot angles would put the round directly down through multiple vital organs.

What was with the weird images in the video like the married couple dancing and the nurses running with a stretcher? That was weird

My parents have told me this story many times, they were in their 20s at the time, it was pretty crazy and my Dad knew the guy who stole the tank

Is it just me, or does Office Bloke Mike seem like he is not all there. Like he is not putting 100% into it.

Please check out The Cat King by MrBallen. Complete opposite of this poor guy’s luck. The Cat King was insanely lucky. My friends say I’m the unluckiest person they’ve ever known. Like bizarrely unlucky. I do everything right (so I think) just to be punished over and over again. It sucks. I tried to drink my misery away but my body hates alcohol. Two beers mess my whole system up and I don’t even get a buzz. I suppose that’s a good thing.

Unarmed Tank. No way in hell Tanks are loaded with actual rounds. None.

A lot of people lose family and jobs but you don't take it our on innocent people there isn't an excuse.

I was waiting for someone to say... You can't park there m8!

I do remember this. The police dropped a hand grenade into the hatch. Driver didn't make it

Kinda surprised they didnt just scramble a jet and blast the tank :3

Why would you steal a tank for, I guess he wanted to show his skills as a tank driver

killdozer is another one you guys might like.

For those who don’t know, the guy who stole this tank was twacked outta of his mind on meth

The armored bull dozer you're talking about is referred to as the "Kill Dozer" even though he never killed anyone.

If you were in the military and never got a page 11 you not doing it right!!

Love the movie 'Falling Down.' It is similar.

It is sad from an overview, what happens to a person to make them do this... they had to stop him at all costs, but maybe they could have done other things before the shooting. But maybe there are things we don't know about it. He didn't deserve to die for what he did, but if he had to for it to be stopped then that's justified.

I think the only person who gets to say whether it was justified was his family - they say it was. If the military had to shoot, collateral damage could have hurt others. Mace wasn't going to stop him from trying to dislodge the tank. If someone has a weapon, sometimes the police have to take lethal action. It's unfortunate, but the greater good takes precedence.

I was waiting on the 41 bus on Genesee avenue when this tank passed me!

Why wouldn't they mace him?!?! Because what we needed was someone even more pissed off and unable to see sitting in the driver seat. You play stupid games you get stupid prizes.

The way this guy pauses in his sentences is infuriating lmao.

Same thing happened in Granby Colorado except it was a bulldozer turned into a tank.. Dude destroyed a town.

Well I can say one thing it's a pretty bad ass way to lose your shit.

y'all ever see killdozer?

The music in the video is bizarre and distracting.

I remember this...scary and crazy as hell!😎

Of course it was justified, what a dumb thing to ask by some people. There have been people shot for far less offenses by authorities. The officer did what was needed and he saved countless lives in the process.

Always wondered why he didn't lock the hatch from inside? A true kamikaze mission.

What's with the funky song at 12:12😆😆😆

God bless America, never a dull moment

I can understand the grief of losing a parent. I lost my mother when she was 59 and for a year I went into a tailspin. Almost ruined my career but I was able to lift myself back up.

U gotta watch the guy who built the killdozer

Everyone in life has things happen to them that are tragic and untimely. It is what and how each of us choose to react to those things and WHO WE CHOOSE TO BLAME! This guy made a conscious decision to steal a piece of armor and to use it to terrorize innocent civilians. I am sorry he had a hard time in life, but honestly, there was nothing that happened to him that has not happened to MILLIONS of other people, and yet none of them used a weapon against another. It is sad he died for his actions, but if I were the police officer standing atop that tank while it was being gunned back and forth, I would do the same thing and fire...I would have no other choice. I still remember hearing this story on the news, even here in WAY Norther CA.