GRANBY, Colo. — Twenty years ago, a man bent on destroying the town of Granby for perceived wrongs got into his modified bulldozer and went on a rampage that thrust the small mountain town into the national spotlight.
“The slow-motion rampage left a trail of splintered structures in this mountain tourist town outside Rocky Mountain National Park,” the Associated Press reported in 2004.The ordeal ended in Heemeyer taking his own life inside the cabin as swat members began moving in on the stuck makeshift tank. AP reported that Heemeyer was also fined for not having a septic tank and other city code violations and wrote the word “Cowards” on a check he wrote to the city to cover the fines.
That latter group of supporters is fairly large online, from websites to blog posts, of those who sympathize with the man who drove through, ran over, and shot at the community of Granby.