It’s been a long time since I watched a documentary about that but wasn’t there also an issue where he was prevented from actually getting the plumbing they required installed so he was basically fucked?
City officials told Heemeyer that putting in a septic tank was a less expensive alternative, but he rejected both options and said that the government not paying for the sewage line hookup was “extortion by government fiat”. Despite these setbacks, he did not withdraw his annexation request and subsequently became part of the sewer district.
In June 2001, Joe Docheff made Heemeyer an offer over the phone whereby if Heemeyer dropped the lawsuit, they would provide him an easement to connect a sewer line to the new concrete plant free of charge; Heemeyer simply hung up. Around this time, the buried concrete truck barrel that served as Heemeyer’s sewage hole filled up. Heemeyer responded by pumping his sewage with a gasoline pump into the irrigation ditch that ran behind his property.[8] Heemeyer also attempted to illegally connect to a neighbor’s sewer line, but was caught and the incident reported to the sanitation district. At this point, the sewer district started enforcing the legal requirement to have a sewer hookup or a septic tank and fined Heemeyer $2,500 (equivalent to $4,439 in 2024) for it and other city code violations at his business,[12] in July 2001, nine years after he was required to have installed either.
Oh yeah, okay. I don’t think the documentary I watched covered all that other than saying he blamed the concrete plant for blocking him, and then during his rampage the guy that owned the plant actually did block him with a bulldozer of his own. Which I thought was pretty cool.
His story has been absolutely whitewashed in a lot of media by people who want to glorify his actions, I haven’t been there in years but I remember Reddit being particularly bad for it. Which is part of why I bring up that he was an absolute jackass who caused all his own problems, a lot of people who do know the story don’t know it’s been misrepresented.
It’s been a long time since I watched a documentary about that but wasn’t there also an issue where he was prevented from actually getting the plumbing they required installed so he was basically fucked?
On his Wikipedia page:
Dude was a jackass.
Oh yeah, okay. I don’t think the documentary I watched covered all that other than saying he blamed the concrete plant for blocking him, and then during his rampage the guy that owned the plant actually did block him with a bulldozer of his own. Which I thought was pretty cool.
His story has been absolutely whitewashed in a lot of media by people who want to glorify his actions, I haven’t been there in years but I remember Reddit being particularly bad for it. Which is part of why I bring up that he was an absolute jackass who caused all his own problems, a lot of people who do know the story don’t know it’s been misrepresented.