Council will be discussing the fact that “preliminary solutions and costs have been assessed” for Park and City asset security [see page 122]
Estimates are in the $80k to $100k range. I will go out on a huge limb here and say that with Ryan Ward and Finley in charge, the final cost will easily exceed $150,000 – at which point you have to ask: is it cheaper to just repair the vandalism every now and then?
One thing is for sure, they better sure as hell put it out for bid and if Azbell Electronics is involved again, you can be sure some serious fuckery is afoot.
I can see why they don’t want to be “transparent” – if they DID sell the land already, they look like utter chumps. They spent $7,000 on their hack lawyer JC Brown to draw up an agreement that was completely ignored by Martin from the very first day. There WAS no “Phase I” – it was all a bullshit ruse.
Wednesday was a great day for the pool over at Hannah Springs. The skate park? Not so much.
So does “it’ll be used every single day” actually mean it’ll be used “every now and then…but not when it gets hot out”? Only Mike White knows for sure.
Maybe we should spend another $400,000 to put a big giant canopy over it. We wouldn’t want anyone living in Texas to get sun on their face. At least that’s how cretins like Jennifer Moron-o Sanchez think:
We have shade at the parks. They are called “trees”
[There is only one word in the English language I hate more than the word ‘kiddos’ – and that is the word ‘supper’. Is “kiddos” a Texas thing? I never really heard it before moving here 15 years ago.]
Maiden name Moreno and married name Sanchez…hmm. You’d think her kids would probably tan pretty easily. But no…let’s spend a big pile of money on an awning because you are too lazy or stupid to put on a baseball cap and some $8 sunscreen!
Luckily she is too ignorant to know about the existence of a “City Manager” and “City Council.” Probably too busy making sandwiches to learn those basics. We shouldn’t doubt her ability to raise the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a canopy, though. Just look at her determination! She’s going to read an ENTIRE 30 MINUTES in a DAY for another cause!
Wow. Impressive.
I can’t help but wonder if that $400,000 spent on the skate park could have been better spent.
I know for a CERTAINTY that a splash pad (remember that idea?) would be a big hit. Too bad former mayor Misti Talbert pilfered almost a million dollars from the City to incinerate at her “Business Pork Project”…we could have built like 12 splash pads for that!
I’m sure it will be put to good use by Eco-Turd when they move in over there. Alan “I have a private jet” Champagne appreciated the donation from the taxpayers!
**UPDATED JUNE 9th**
ANOTHER beautiful summer day with ZERO skaters. Wow.
We are coming up on the June “deadline” for “Phase II” of the Industrial Park agreement. You know, that project where Phase I was completely ignored and the details of the agreement (which the City paid their hack lawyer $7,000 to create) were violated non-stop from Day One.
“Don’t you even THINK about a cigar shop!!! WE are doing one!!”
The property has been purchased?!? Whoa there! When did THAT happen? I sure didn’t see anything in the City council minutes about that event. Phase One (the RV and boat storage phase) never even happened yet! Nor has any preparations for “food trucks” or the “training facility” that were talked about. Barber shop? Micro-brewery? Those have never been mentioned again since the Mandy Walsh era. I think we can safely say that will never happen.
So, is Jennifer Conklin (who works across the street at Martin Rod & Custom, according to her Facebook page) lying to scare off the competition? Or did Martin ALREADY buy the land – even though they have done absolutely nothing that was promised so far?
I have asked the City secretary that very question….we await an answer.
“Diversity” is so awesome, isn’t it? Especially the third-world illiterate ass-backwards kind.
Anyhow, when the idiot krauts aren’t busy letting in African and Middle Eastern filth to gang rape all their women, they are occupied shutting down their nuclear reactors in order to completely fuck themselves in the ass going forward. So smart!!
Weeks before Germany’s nuclear closed, utility giant RWE_AG CEO Markus Krebber rejected calls to save them:
“There is still enough electricity”
The reactors close. Six weeks later Krebber says:
“Germany has a serious problem: We don’t have as much energy available as we need”
The krauts deserve everything they get. I once again repeat my offer to pay the moving expenses for Christine Seefeldt of Killeen Texas if she signs a contract promising to move back to Germany and NEVER set foot in the United States again. This offer good for up to $10,000 in moving expenses.
THIS is how you deal with scumbags. Not social workers. Not kiosks suggesting they take a different path in life. Just run them over and toss them in the dumpster. Once you start shooting at cops, you just gave up all your rights.
Of course, a bunch of bleeding hearts will be interviewed in the paper to tell us how he was “just about to turn his life around” and was “going to apply to med school.” His mom will also tell us he was a good boy who “dindu nuffin”.
Somewhere in St. Louis is a doughy socialist kid who lives with his mom posting tweets about how terrible the white supremacy is here. Fuck him too.
Great way to start my day!! Score one for the good guys.
Clayton Tucker SDEC-24 TX, Chairman of Lampasas Democratic Party (who may or may not be gay) is ANGRY that some big corporations donate to “anti-gay politicians” – whatever that means. I’m guessing it means politicians who have come out publicly against child mutilation – a barbaric practice that the Chairman of the Lampasas Democratic Party is most definitely in favor of.
Well shit, I literally JUST got rid of AT&T because they are a dogshit company. I may have to go back to them now! I’ll also bet you a MILLLLIIION DOLLARS that Comrade Clayton (as well as his mom and dad, who he lives with) have used Amazon many, many times over the course of the last few years.
AT&T and Amazon? Didn’t they donate to Robert Francis O’Rourke? Why yes, yes they did. They were among his top six biggest donors!!
[I’m also curious to know why the University of California is squandering their money on a clown running for governor in Texas who had zero chance of winning. I guess that’s the “California Way” or something.]
So somehow this money is preventing you guys from having buttsex?
Who is this “O’Rourke” fellow, you ask? Well, he is another guy who never had a real job but thinks he should be running your life. A year ago, Clayton Tucker was a huge fan! Such a huge fan, in fact, that he took photos with him whenever possible…
NAMBLA recruiting poster
“Robert’s ass in one hand and my purse in the other. Heaven.”
Thank god for natural gas, nuclear and coal. Otherwise we would all be sitting in the dark with food rotting in our refrigerators while entire industries ground to a standstill for lack of power. All those thousands of blades sitting there as calm as Hindu cows…
This is the third or fourth time in the last 10 days that wind has produced next to nothing for the state’s power grid. That is what we call “unreliable” and it’s the main reason why pinwheels should be banned from the state of Texas.
Actually, you don’t need to ban them. Just eliminate those tens of billions of tax dollars for pinwheel subsidies, and it would disappear overnight.
Anyone who promotes wind as a workable power source is either a complete moron who fails to understand basic math or is a scam artist who’s lining their pockets with government subsidies. There is no other possibility.
“On wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That’s the only reason to build them. They don’t make sense without the tax credit.” – Warren Buffett
Funny how local socialist Clayton Tucker is so concerned about the “rich” paying their “fair share” but he is perfectly fine with Warren Buffet (net worth $115 BILLION) collecting subsidies for idiotic wind farms.
Most of you have probably forgotten who Martin Heemeyer is. Let me refresh your memory:
Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby Colorado on June 4, 2004.
Heemeyer had feuded with Granby town officials, particularly over fines for violating city health ordinances after he purchased property with no sewage system.
Over about eighteen months, Heemeyer had secretly armored a Komatsu D355A bulldozer with layers of steel and concrete.
On June 4, 2004, Heemeyer used the bulldozer to demolish the Granby town hall, the house of a former mayor, and several other buildings. He killed himself after the bulldozer got stuck in the basement of a hardware store he was destroying.
Zoning dispute
In 1992, Heemeyer purchased 2 acres (0.8 ha) of land for $42,000 to build a muffler shop. He subsequently agreed to sell the land to Cody Docheff to build a concrete batch plant for $250,000. According to Susan Docheff, Heemeyer changed his mind and increased the price to $375,000, then to a deal worth approximately $1 million. This negotiation happened before the rezoning proposal was heard by the town council.
In 2001, Granby’s zoning commission and trustees approved the construction of the concrete plant. Heemeyer unsuccessfully appealed the decision, claiming the construction blocked access to his shop. He was subsequently fined $2,500 for not having a septic tank on the property his muffler shop occupied.
On June 4, 2004, Heemeyer drove his armored bulldozer through the wall of his former business, the concrete plant, the town hall, the office of the local newspaper that editorialized against him, the home of a former mayor (in which the mayor’s widow then resided), and a hardware store owned by another man Heemeyer named in a lawsuit, as well as a few others. Heemeyer had leased his business to a trash company and sold the property several months before the rampage.
The attack lasted two hours and seven minutes, damaging thirteen buildings. It knocked out natural gas service to the town hall and the concrete plant, damaged a truck, and destroyed part of a utility service center. Despite the great damage to property, no one besides Heemeyer (by a self-inflicted gunshot wound) was killed in the event. The damage was estimated at $7 million. According to Grand County commissioner James Newberry, emergency dispatchers used the reverse 911 emergency system to notify many residents and property owners of the rampage going on in the town.
Defenders of Heemeyer contended that he made a point of not hurting anybody during his bulldozer rampage. Ian Daugherty, a bakery owner, said Heemeyer “went out of his way” not to harm anyone. Others offered different views. The sheriff’s department argued the fact that no one was injured was not due to good intent as much as to good luck. Heemeyer had installed two rifles in firing ports on the inside of the bulldozer, and fired fifteen bullets from his rifle at power transformers and propane tanks.
“Had these tanks ruptured and exploded, anyone within one-half mile (800 m) of the explosion could have been endangered”, the sheriff’s department said. Twelve police officers and residents of a senior citizens complex were within such a range. Heemeyer fired many bullets from his semi-automatic rifle at Cody Docheff when Docheff tried to stop the assault on his concrete plant by using a scraper, which was pushed aside by Heemeyer’s bulldozer.
Later, Heemeyer fired on two state patrol officers before they had fired at him. The sheriff’s department also noted that eleven of the thirteen buildings Heemeyer bulldozed were occupied until moments before their destruction. At the town library, for example, a children’s program was in progress when the incident began.
One officer dropped a flash-bang grenade down the bulldozer’s exhaust pipe, with no apparent effect. Local and state patrol, including a SWAT team walked behind and beside the bulldozer, occasionally firing, but the armored bulldozer was impervious to their shots. Attempts to disable the bulldozer’s cameras with gunfire failed as the bullets were unable to penetrate the 3-inch (7.6 cm) bulletproof plastic. At one point, undersheriff Glenn Trainor climbed atop the bulldozer and rode it “like a bronc buster, trying to figure out a way to get a bullet inside the dragon”. However, he was forced to jump off to avoid being hit with debris.
At this point, local authorities and the Colorado State Patrol feared they were running out of options in terms of firepower, and that Heemeyer would soon turn against civilians in Granby. Governor Bill Owens allegedly considered authorizing the National Guard to use either an Apache attack helicopter equipped with a Hellfire missile or a two-man fire team equipped with a Javelin anti-tank missile to destroy the bulldozer. This was quickly deemed unnecessary when Heemeyer became trapped in the basement of a hardware store.
As late as 2011, Governor Owens’s staff still vehemently denied considering such a course of action. Since then, members of the State Patrol revealed that to the contrary, the governor did consider authorizing an attack but ultimately decided against it due to the potential for collateral damage of a missile strike in the heart of Granby being significantly higher than what Heemeyer could have caused with his bulldozer.
Various problems arose as Heemeyer destroyed the Gambles hardware store. The radiator of the bulldozer had been damaged, and the engine was leaking various fluids. The bulldozer’s engine failed, and Heemeyer dropped a tread into the store’s basement and could not get out. About a minute later, one of the SWAT team members, who had swarmed around the machine, reported hearing a single gunshot from inside the sealed cab. It was later determined that Heemeyer had shot himself in the head with a .357-caliber handgun.
Police first used explosives in an attempt to remove the steel plates, but after the third explosion failed, they cut through them with a cutting torch. Grand County Emergency Management Director Jim Holahan stated that authorities were able to access and remove Heemeyer’s body at 2 a.m. on June 5.
Aftermath
On April 19, 2005, the town announced plans to scrap Heemeyer’s bulldozer. The plan involved dispersing individual pieces to many separate scrap yards to prevent souvenir-taking.
Although no one other than Heemeyer was killed in the incident, the modified bulldozer has occasionally been referred to as the “Killdozer”. It is unclear whether this is in allusion to the 1944 short story “Killdozer!” or if this is independent coinage.
In recent years, Heemeyer gained a small internet following for his bulldozer attack, comparable to the Unabomber‘s following in the same or similar communities, with people politicizing and justifying his actions.
Motivation
In addition to writings that he left on the wall of his shed, Heemeyer recorded three audio tapes explaining his motivation for the attack. The tapes contained two separate recordings on each side for a total of six recordings. He mailed these to his brother in South Dakota shortly before stepping into his bulldozer.
Heemeyer’s brother turned the tapes over to the FBI, who in turn sent them to the Grand County Sheriff’s Department. The tapes are about 2.5 hours in length. The first recording was made on April 13, 2004. The last recording was made on May 22, thirteen days before the rampage.
“God built me for this job”, Heemeyer said in the first recording. He also said it was God’s plan that he not be married or have a family so that he could be in a position to carry out such an attack. “I think God will bless me to get the machine done, to drive it, to do the stuff that I have to do”, he said. “God blessed me in advance for the task that I am about to undertake. It is my duty. God has asked me to do this. It’s a cross that I am going to carry and I’m carrying it in God’s name.”
Investigators later found Heemeyer’s handwritten list of targets. According to the police, it included the buildings he destroyed, the local Catholic church (which he did not damage), and the names of various people who had sided against him in past disputes.
Notes found by investigators after the incident indicated that the primary motivation for the bulldozer rampage was his plan to stop the concrete plant from being built near his shop. These notes indicated that he held grudges over the zoning approval. “I was always willing to be reasonable until I had to be unreasonable”, he wrote. “Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”
