KILLDOZER: How a Man Made His Own Tank | Tales From the Bottle

It’s incredibly bizarre how Heemeyer has somehow been spun into the victim of this story. The Docheff family wants to buy part of his land that used to be family land, which he agrees to. Then Marvin doubles the price, which they agree to. Then he ups it again. When the Docheffs naturally reject this deal, Heemeyer becomes belligerent. When the Docheffs instead buy a neighboring plot of land, Marvin dumps sewage into nearby waterways and builds a killdozer to destroy their property and a dozen town buildings with innocent civilians including children inside. But somehow, the Internet thinks he’s a victim, instead of a completely sociopathic tool, because of funny video.

We need more stories like this.

Hey brother.
Love your work.

Thats a 223/556 not 22 lr. Its an FN FNC

Congrats on the 10k views.

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The music at the end and the subject matter made me think of those old bud lite "real american heros" adds. Today we salute you Mr. Marvin killdozer hemeyr. You will be missed.

7 years ago jesus christ im old

This was a one sided telling of what happened. Yes, Marvin got screwed a few times but it was his own uncompromising and stubborn attitude that made it all go from bad to worse. He was also not in his right mind and was probably suffering from some kind of mental illness. He genuinely believed that the whole town was out to get him and that they had all conspired to work together to screw him over.

Dude, the drawing of that Apache is frickin legit

If they would’ve used the hellfire missiles to stop him he would’ve truly been the only man in history to reach a 5-star wanted level in real life.

Weird listening to you say you had just hit 50 subscribers. Now you have over 1 million 6 years later!

Watching this at 1.15M subs. Congrats on making it from 100

6M on this video alone now, man. Well done!!

Hmm but can't police just out a black clothes on the camera?

Based on you accent I am guessing that you’re in a country where the majority of people are going to be highly inspired by this video. Get to work mate!

It’s funny to me that their thought process was “we need to prevent admirers from keeping souvenirs of this thing” and not “we need to act in a way that does not cause people to admire him”

Stupidest fucking video out there of it

Sometimes, a guy needs to go to extreme measures. They were going to ruin him, and they either didn't care or were purposely trying to ruin his life and business.

This guy could have been Batman

50 subscribers and 1000 views, what a difference a few years has made

"we just hit 1000 views on the video, which is mind blowing"
I'm 2025, Me looking up to see the 1.14 million subscribers and 203K likes on this video

I...*highly* recommend getting multiple sides of this story. I'll give one example and then I'll shut up. According to city records, Hemeyer had been just dumping his sewage into a ditch behind the garage for years, despite getting multiple warnings and fines from the city that he needed to either hook up to the sewer or install a septic tank. Because, you know, that's nasty. But he refused to do it, essentially dumping poop on the neighbor's property. If you want to hook your house up to municipal sewer lines, there's a window of opportunity for that, it can't really be done retroactively. Hemeyer was made aware of this YEARS in advance. He had the money to do either. He just wouldn't spend it, believing it was his God-given right to dump his shit on his neighbor's property.

Putting it mildly, the dude was an arsehole from the very beginning.

Trebao je cjeli grad srusti kad nema zakona i pravde za postenog covjeka na kraju rezultat je ovakav narodna izreka kaze cuvaj se postenog covjeka i njegovog bjesa

El kilo Dozer debería estar en un museo
Porque sino en unos años se convertirá en un mito urbano

Why do People from the UK screw everything up…

Based.

Hey - I watched the Killdozer episode on Fascinating Horror and there were some key differences. For example, they claimed that the guy had never connected to town sewage, but used a buried cement truck as a septic tank. They said the cost to connect to town sewage would have been twice what he paid for the land. Also they said the concrete plant did not actually block access to his muffler shop, even though he insisted that it did. They made him out to be increasingly paranoid and delusional, and not at all the hero that some people would prefer.
I wonder what are the real facts…

Dudes a folk hero just like Luigi Mangioni. Dudes are modern day folk hero’s

In this house, we support Marvin unconditionally

The city could've probably recouped their losses by putting it in a museum...

My fiancé showed me this video! This is AWESOME... sucks that it came to the tank needing to be made tho...

The best part of this is the design teams who were innovating on the Abrams actually used some of the killdozer design choices to improve on the Abrams design. The idea to bring in the military to handle the situation was probably the most reasonable one they had. The steel plating was between 15 mma nd 30 mm, with quikrete (not concrete) poured between them rated for 5,000 psi. C4 shaped charges had no effect, they needed to use a ton of thermite just to take it apart. With all that being said, even the Bushmaster on a Bradley would be incapable of penetrating the armor Heemeyer had constructed. It wasn't the plating that made it so powerful, it was the surprisingly shock absorbant quikrete behind the plates that made all the difference, giving it the equivalent hardness to about 300 mm of rolled homogenous steel armor. They would have need modern, high velocity armor piercing rounds of at least 120 mm.

Note to Self.....Install Backup Radiator

Guessing you passed 100 subscribers M8

I love that he first rode through the concrete factory via the route of his old driveway. That must have felt so good.

The fact this was in Colorado makes sense, as this looks like something straight off a South Park episode

Thow paint at the camera housings.

Wheel tractor can't never go back to his neighborhood again after that pathetic attempt 😔 he's banished

Aww I didn't know kill dozer happened in America I thought that happened in Briton for some reason. Probably because I first heard it from count Dankula I guess

Moral of the story never push a good man too far

So he sealed himself inside the bulldozer? Guy read too much warhammer, thinks he's a dreadnought

Marvin was chosen by God to carry out his justice.

I drive a motherfuckin' army tank!
Kaka Vroom VROOM

Reporting in 4years down the line. Where we were celebrating 10k views; this video currently sits at 6 Million.

Grats Qxir, ya deserve it, & keep making shit ya Wiley bastard! 😁

I got a harbor freight ad on this video,
A sign from god lad