Interviewing Killdozer Victims (I Brought My Bulldozer) 

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Hearing the cop saying: "He was a bad guy. But the older I get... I see it, from a Libertarian perspective." Absolutely sent me.

I have the .38 Special Marvin used to end his career. My Stepfather at the time was a state trooper in Greeley Colorado. He got a call and is seen in multiple photos at the basement, crawling all over the dozer. The handgun was put in a Greeley evidence room because the act was so terrible higher ups investigate. To make a long story short it expired in the evidence room and was claimed. It’s still in Colorado and has been restored. Except red blood cells have deteriorated the external metal of the handgun. It fires and operates fine but there is the engraving of the rust caused by the bodily fluids of Marvin that stain the handgun forever.

I am from Granby, CO and was just a few blocks away at daycare when this happened.I don't remember any of it because I was 2, but I spent the next 17 years living and going to school in this town, growing up in the aftermath that was the killdozer. One of my moms best friends dated Marv for years, and before he went on his rampage he paid for her to go back to her home country to see her family. Patrick Brower who wrote the book on the killdozer was the publisher at ski-hi news at the time and Marv specifically went after the newspapers building because of how everything leading up to the rampage was covered. I grew up with Browers son, his wife was one of my french teachers at one point, there were so many others I grew up with or knew who were involved. Everyone in the town has some sort of connection to this day. I don't condone the actions of Marv, but I also understand why he did what he did and know he was at his limit. The town really screwed him over time and time again, I am just glad there were no casualties apart from Marv. Its really interesting to see an outsiders perspective.

The fact that the town officials knew what buildings he would target, tells me that they knew exactly who did him wrong

Once I was young I was told it was some crazy guy that destroyed our town and now that I’m an adult I completely understand why he went on his rampage.

R.I.P. Marvin ,they call it killdozer yet it killed no one! This guy was wronged!

nothing is scarier than a man with nothing left to lose

Cody is they type of person to bring severe PTSD back to unsuspecting people. 😂

Marvin was a good guy. He is an example of an honest, hard-working American that got bullied by selfish people.

"Sometimes Reasonable People Does Unreasonable Things " Spot on 👌🏽

We need more people like Marvin who just doesn't bow down to the government / local agencies. He worked his entire life for his business and it was taken away from him overnight

Dude I'm impressed. You were perfectly respectful and reasonable with this. You've created something wholesome and should be proud.

"He kinda did us a favor" this was a guy who's business and himself was bullied to the point to do what he done. I'm actually glad Cody is bringing this back up.

I am from Germany and the story of the Killdozer is one of my favourites and also pretty good known by the people here. I often wish, more people would TREAD on the opressors in the world, so Marvin was a man to look up to for me. Also this series of WD is really the first ones where i am a 100% behind. Love the provocation in this one and i am really curious too see what he does with the kommatsu. A "rebuild" of the armored one as a display and reminder, kind of a collectors edition thing, would be an awesome thing to have on his farm. But the thing i hope the most for, is that he for once doesnt just destroy it for fun. This "thing" is one of the reasons I most of the time dont really go along well with cody. But this is just my opinion, and everyone can do what he wants with their money... Just bugs me to see, how he sometimes crash brand new cars or other things, that normal working people like me can hardly afford. But thats another story. For now, its the story of the awesome KILLDOZER, so... TREAD ON THEM!

Just wanted to say thank you for doing this I've referenced his story so many times and people have no idea how badly he was treated let alone even heard of the story it's good to see 20 years later someone's bringing light to how these small town communities can be bullies of their own be curious to see what your next project will be

The cop is the realest one he’s like “as a kid he was a bad guy but when I got older I started to understand why”

“I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.” ― Marvin Heemeyer

This is absolutely one of the best things you've done. It was so interesting. You R the man!!! We even had to watch the killdeer videos....

👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽. This needed to be made and you’re a leader for making it happen, Cody.

The fact that all the officials immediately knew who it was and where he was headed tells me all I need to know.

I worked in granby CO for the USFS for 3 years. I ended up meeting one of his old friends who used to ride snowmobiles with Marvin. Marvin was the creator of the Heymeyer bumper, a 3 plus inch round metal pipe bent and welded into a front bumper for a snowmobile. Marvin pioneered the Granby Signature style of snowmobiling through the mountains with these bull bar guards plowing over small trees that would otherwise stop other riders. He was a brilliant machinist and craftsman, and was respected and cherished by many people in town. I think he did what he thought was right, and he was willing to die for that belief. Pretty incredible story.

Dude, that production value was top notch. It was very balanced, included key moments, and presented a fair portrayal.

This was a masterpiece thanks for sharing this! Definitely an eye opener 👌🏽

"the most dangerous man is a man who has nothing else to lose"

What a legend

My guy you cease to amaze me with your content keep doing you man good shit

This was actually well put together considering your usual editing style. Well done boys, well done

I stand with marv. We've all experienced corruption and if you haven't yet you will. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Gotta love the telephone game, it never fails. 11:00 Cody explicitly tells the people at the Sky-Hi News than he has a unarmored Komatsu D355A arriving in a couple hours. By the time Cody meets up with law enforcement, they've been told he has a duplicate of the armored Killdozer and is planning to drive it down Main Street.

This is your best video ever Cody. Great job, really interesting to follow along with.

What a coincidence about 2 weeks ago I just watched the whole documentary on it that has been redone. I thought man they did a good job. and then boom your video hit the screen. Love it dude that guy was awesome long live Marvin

For anyone curious, Marvin didn’t purchase the dozer with the intention of rampaging. He originally bought it to make a new route to his shop (the cementing plant basically blocked off his business). At some point he essentially was like “fuck it” and sold everything he had, then invested the rest of his money into armoring killdozer.

Only until you deal with corrupt politicians will you understand this man. He wasn't taking it like everyone else does.

Well thanks for taking the time to gather answers for those of us that were curious but never thought we’d get them

Marvin is my hero! I was a sophomore in high school when this happened. Its amazing how many people couldn't understand what his actions stood for! All the little people gets screwed and Cody has on more than one occasion explained how this happens to the little guy and why the get away with it and why no one cares! Well im glad that someone is telling it how it really is! Maybe someday itll get better but a lot more people will have to suffer before that happens!

WD does his first emotionally riveting video of true events. It's the first video that he made with zero action or destruction. An actual documentary, on the ground, with real people. Every video until now has been a 1 up on the one before it. Cody did a great job here by opening a new page for us. Showing us another side of him. As well as his growth in himself and his filming career. What a great peace!

Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things. RIP.

I'm so grateful that you are shedding light on this important topic 🤗

I've been lurking this channel a long time. This got me to sub. Awesome!

When people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is Liberty. -Thomas Jefferson

I enjoy seeing Cody in genuine mode interacting with real people. I also like the true crime angle of this... would love to see more content like this!

I think you do a really great job doing these mini documentaries! I'd love to see more of these! All your other videos are amazing aswell please keep it up you make us all laugh

Aint nobody else doing documentaries much less to this quality. Appreciated

Those who didn’t come from Tik tok, are allowed to like this comment..

It hounestly so calming seeing Cody act serious and normal

Awesome way to dig into this story. We'll played Sir.... outstanding work ❤

Also that Policeman you spoke to was a legend. He follows the law, but is open minded enough to look into the stories and make his own mind up

I was there that day, I was 13. I was in the shop across from the propane tanks, on the dirt road where they tried to park the road scraper to block the dozer. It was obviously a very strange day.We think he came down to shoot the propane tanks hoping they would explode and damage the bridge over the railroad tracks and the river coming into town. The tanks were much closer to the bridge and the tracks then, they moved them to where you saw them when they were replaced. When it was happening, no one knew what was going on, there was this tank thing no one had ever seen before just fucking shit up. It was wild, like the cop said in the video there was no Grandby police, only the Sheriff . I remember before the sheriff could start to figure out what to do the citizens were shooting at the dozer. The Sheriffs and the state troopers were all spread out, no one knew if the dozer was shooting or the cops we shooting. It was the slowest chaos. After he got stuck and the stand off and it was over, the city didn't know what to do with the dozer. They moved the dozer over to the CDOT storage area down the highway out of town. My Uncle took me to see it a few days later. It was a crazy machine. They had to cut it up to actually get it out of town cuz it was so heavy. The way I remember the perception of what happened was that he was a guy that got screwed, tried to speak up and was shut down for small town politics. At the time Granby was small, there was only one restaurant, the only real industry there was the concrete plant, so they were bringing in a lot of money and used that influence. He wasn't a crazy guy, he did a crazy thing, in the end it was just sad. It definitely changed Grandby, in different ways. It put Grandby on the map for one, everyone in the country knew about it overnight. It also kinda started a bit of gentrification in the town, slowly we got these nicer, newer buildings, it made the other shitty buildings look shittier, Grandby realized they needed to rebuild into the stereotypical Colorado mountain town main drag to soak up some of the tourism. You did a good job with this, and it meant a lot to that family that you gave them that truck.

Whoa Cody that was a pleasant watch. Thanks man big fan of your old stuff and this was very deadly.

Man Cody, my old coworker Dale would’ve loved to see this video. He always talked about the Killdozer and respected the guy that did it. I even told him to build a Daledozer 😂. He died unfortunately in 2021, I still think about him all the time. He was one of the funniest guys I ever met, but his wife made him miserable. As an ode to Dale, don’t marry disrespectful, unappreciative women! Great video as always, man. Rest In Peace Dale, I love you buddy, forever.

He was always willing to be reasonable until he had to be unreasonable

I have a cabin up in Granby near the lake, and I can tell you from first hand experience that the council in Granby at the time was full of a bunch of knuckle heads. They were changing a lot of rules about building code in the early 00s and my grandfather had a fight with them about being able to get a septic system and well put in at the cabin a few years before the killdozer event.

Marvin is the only victim but he went out like a true man fighting back and preventing them from having the last laugh

Rip Marvin! God bless you for your courage to stand up. Wish you could’ve been here to tell the tale!

This was better journalism than any major news network

Man can go from comedy to actual mature and composed documentaries. This is amazing.

Better journalism than the main stream media. “You take what you need and you leave the rest But they should never have taken the very best”

Cody there’s a lot of us old guys that were wild cards when younger keep the light burning for us all great vids

Cody may not be pregnant but he never fails to deliver

The fact that you bought an old pickup truck to match the vibe of the era and town just for the video is amazing. Your video quality and dedication is second to none

This one made me smile the whole time. Amazing job. It’s truly sad what they did to him. As someone quoted famously he was “a reasonable man pushed to do unreasonable things.” ;( My dad is a limestone miner and they have an extensive array of komatsu equipment ranging from haul trucks to dozers to all types of earth movers and those machines are mind boggling up close. I’ve seen one if their biggest dozers plow through 100+ tons of limestone like nothing. Without even slowing down. Best believe the people that did him wrong were shitting their pants when they saw that machine headed towards their building lol

Professional, considerate, entertaining, thorough, and tasteful. Well done

the fact that cody just gave those nice guys that truck after leaving the town is why cody is one of my favorite youtubers. dudes just so chill

Marvin was the perfect example of how good people can be molded into the evil they encounter.

Really good. Clicked expecting it to be a meme bit but was pleasantly surprised with something even better. Feels like this should be a series, almost like being the Peter Santenello for places of libertarian/madlad significance.

i love how a person from the town hall at 8:42 said “there’s a better way to resolve this” when he tried going the peacefull way and they all laughed at him.

What started it was Martin bought the muffler shop but the guy that owned the cement plant right next door actually wanted it also. Marvin was not a native of the town but the cement plant guy was, so he had contacts in the community and city Council. The real problem was that the only way to get the muffler shop connected to the city sewer, which the city Council suddenly insisted that he do, or they would fine him a ton of money daily, which they did. Problem was,, the only way to get connected was to go through the cement plant property, but that guy was mad he didn't get the muffler shop so he refused. They backed Marvin into a corner and he flipped out. I don't blame him at all. To those that say "there was a better way to resolve it" are full of it, because there WAS no way to resolve it, other than to sell the muffler shop.

that is a absolute perfect video .. the old footage , the research , thank you to !!!

Well done Cody, thanks for bringing this up

Quality Content right here! Marv was legit and deserved to be heard.

Huge respect for you man. You bought a normal old pickup just so you wouldn't look like a rich youtuber and get the locals on edge. You dressed the part too, and it paid off. Well done brother.

When he turns 40 we can call him WD40 for a year

"I'm gonna take you on, by myself" 🎯

An important thing to note is that he didn't buy the bulldozer to plow down the town; he bought it to create an access road to his shop. He felt the concrete plant was blocking people from getting to his muffler shop. He tried to sell it, and once it didn't sell he decided it was a sign from God to use it

This happened when i was in 9th grade. Me and all my friends in school praised Marvin for standing up to be being bullied by his town in so many ways. They wronged him and his business and he did what was necessary in his eyes. People could only dream of having balls as big as Marvin’s to fight back. Rip to a legend who will be talked about 100 years from now.

Keep up the great work, bud. I truly enjoy ur videos

It's been fun just watching you guys create better and better produced content. Good on ya! :)

I love how respectful Cody is during his visit through this town.

This almost felt like a documentary. The respect you showed to the town, while providing lots of information about the incident. Impeccable work sir!

One of your best videos ever!! Thanks ❤

I love how the lady in the town hall said “he could have killed a lot of people, he had guns” not realizing that he literally welded himself into the cab with a small hole to see.

“He did us all a favor” you all bullied him and drove him to his breaking point and he took his own life.. The only thing he damaged was property but the damage done to him was irreversible

I came back from Afghanistan in 2014 and started a business in Deltona Florida. Code enforcement had a bone to pick with me right away. Long story short, I lost that business before it even had the chance to flourish. After that I lost almost everything I owned so I can totally understand how this guy felt. In hindsight I can see how I didn’t help the situation but my main takeaway is that code enforcement & the city in general has wayyy too much power & they won’t hesitate to kick the little guy while he’s down if he’s just trying to stand his ground & make an honest living.

This is by far the best video u have ever made

I was surprising impressed with this video. Didn’t even realize it was a whistlin video until I saw him lol. Nice video.

Props to Cody for being very respectful with his questions

Cody's dedication to delivering quality content never fails to impress me. Keep up the great work, man!

I'm 3 minutes and 54 seconds in and this is the most amazing documentary I could of ever expected from WD 😂

WD, I'll be honest. I don't really watch your videos. Maybe I've seen like 3 of your videos. But this, hands down, is one of my favorite videos on RU-vid. Maybe I'll keep an eye on your content.

I’m the fifth generation owner of a farm in Massachusetts. My grandfather sold land before I was born. Eventually over 70 houses were built on my great grandfathers pasture and cranberry bogs. A member of the planning board lived in this development. She organized her neighbors to come and complain about our plans to develop a portion of our farm. Basically torches and pitchforks. If my plans hadn’t worked out in the end… I had a backup plan named D9 for the largest dozer I’d be able to rent…I completely understand where Marvin was coming from!!!

I swear the production quality in these videos is better than most Netflix shows😂😂

For a second i was expecting a bunch of inappropriate, uneducated comments and jokes but was pleasantly surprised that the video was done in a serious manner that respected the community that was involved in this.

This is honestly really cool. Never even thought about visiting granby to ask around about this.

The story written about WD and his time there and the telling of the “Killdozer” event itself as recounted within the article is strangely the most objective piece of journalism that’s been written in 20years. Well done.

Dude pulls up to a town with the key ingredient to ptsd from a 20 year old incident and offers civilians a free truck. Whistlindiesel is the most humble content creator I’ve ever seen on RU-vid

Marvin was a man who stood against a world or corruption. His legacy is the societal changes he caused, the fear he put in the hearts of the corrupt and the inspiration in the hearts of the wronged. He is not only a hero but an example of what a free man should be. Unspeakably dangerous yet peaceful.

I love videos like these keep up the great grind your on

Your numbers are ridiculous, 1.2 million in 5 hours. Insane. I’ve been with your channel since the early days…couldn’t be more proud. You deserve all your success.

Better than most documentaries. You can tell you had genuine curiosity and at the same time very knowledgeable all the while being respectful. Well done