[Elspode]

We had a similar sort of loonie take himself out a few months ago here in the KC area. The guy started a fire in one of his outbuildings, then, when the emergency vehicles started showing up, he opened fire on them with a small arsenal, including a 50 caliber rifle.

He had apparently booby-trapped his house, or perhaps miscalculated his powder storage, because he blew it (and himself, and his girlfriend) right off the face of the Earth on live TV.

He'd had a running beef with the city over junk stored on his property. His family had owned the land upon which his home sat for a few generations, since it had been farmland (the site is now squarely in the middle of suburban Kansas City, and has been for about 45 years now), and he apparently took issue with the gubment telling him what he could and couldn't do with his land, so he decided to teach 'em a lesson.

He was your fairly typical gun nut (read: loonies with firearms and stuff, NOT people like Wolf, Slang and other rational humans who just happen to have a love of and proficiency with guns), and was a well-known head case to his neighbors for the most part.

He was a piker compared to the 'dozer guy, though. You gotta have a certain admiration for someone who builds his own tank, trashes his town, and then takes himself out without injuring anyone else.