This is destruction video supreme. According to the description on this video, what you are about to see is the scene left after an equipment operator was fired on a Friday afternoon and decided to exact revenge on his former employer by destroying literally everything he could get an excavator near on a job site. Between the dump trucks and machines that are wrecked the total has to be into the millions of dollars. We have showed you singular machines wrecked by guys on purpose but never anything to this scale. The lead photo shows the remains of a dump truck. It takes some serious rage issues to keep up with this level of carnage for what had to have been hours. Blowing off some steam by killing one truck would be where even normal psychopaths stop so this guy was virtually in a class by himself.
In terms of style points, we do have to applaud the marauder for parking the excavator ON TOP of a completely mangulated Caterpillar bulldozer as kind of a final triumph. There’s no epilogue to this story so we don’t know if the guy was caught and sent to a Canadian gulag, if he escaped to the mountains and was never caught, or if he was rehired on Monday morning. That last scenario sounds unlikely but Canadian people are historically a polite and forgiving lot.
Destruction video on a level we have never seen, at least of those spurred on by complete rage.
Thanks to uncle Frank for the tip!
not the same, but kinda the same vein…when I left Holden’s , so did nearly 1,000 tradesmen as the ` company’ cracked the shits because we’d been on strike for weeks and sacked the lot of us. Very bitter times; they sorta rubbed salt in the wounds a bit by offering us production worker jobs for 2 weeks ( we could take a production job after that if we wanted it but pride was a bit on the line as we were all tradies and proud of it). Anyhoo, some of the boys took offence at this so over those 2 weeks varying levels of sabotage took place…one guy for example walked around with a big hammer attacking jigs, dies, you name it. bit low brow…. one other wag, though, did a bit of an epic stunt….picture a virtual sea of brand new Holdens ( like easily 5 or 600 ) all sitting out the back, ready for sale, in nice neat lines like a huge car park. They used to keep the keys on the front right tyre ao this guy basically spent all night going up to a car, grab the keys, unlock it, start it, put it in drive – then move to the next car and repeat. We came in in the morning and couldn’t work out why there was a general hum of machinery at 7 in the morning before anything had really started for the day – until we went out the back for a look….imagine 600 cars in a low speed crash into the side of a building with many many cars behind them, all idling away, and you get the picture. Must have taken him hours and hours but priceless… every car had low speed damage, busted lights, slight damage but enough that they simply weren’t saleable….childish? without a doubt. Funny? hell yeah!
I’d suspect a fair amount of LaBatt’s was involved.
I wonder if they did get his key… and the guy had secretly made a spare. It’s hard to imagine they wouldn’t have seen some hints they had a crazy on their hands here.
Most equipment uses the same key. For example, my John Deere tractor has the same key as all of my buddies tractors.
Well isn’t that ironic … can’t watch the video in Canada because of a copyright issue blocking it.
Must be those cancontent laws . Its like buying a reman carb , its built in toronto and then goes to a warehouse in the states and than comes back to canaduh so we can pay duty and exchange on it.
Hope the dude got caught and had his ass handed to him, the jerk undoubted put some people out of work for a while.
Yeah, except every operator I ever met has a big wad of keys that fit anything and everything LOL.
Heavy equipment and airplanes tend to have standard keys. I think Cessna had three keys for everything they made up into the 80s. John Delorian’s coke probably got moved in a lot of these ‘borrowed’ planes.
I had an ex co-worker screw with my ex-superviser. How would set the tig welder up the way I would run it. Cup sizes and how far out I would have the tungstun. He (the old sup) was convinced I was coming into the plant using equipment. Got to him so bad the plant manager called me.
For anyone else that couldn’t watch the video, here are some stills of the aftermath.
http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?23507-Disgruntled-Employee-uses-heavy-equipment-for-revenge
I hope this jerk was at the very least bankrupted paying for the damage, as well as having a long time in jail to think over his actions. There was no excuse for this response, and it makes me think that this attitude may very well have been responsible for him getting fired.
Couldn’t agree more. All those vehicles supported at least one guy apiece, and all of them were out of work while this got sorted out. Criminal damage like this and that described above is not cute or epic or anything but stupid. Certainly makes the firing look justified.