Rampaging Bulldozer! Would a .50 have helped?

[50 Shooter]

API ammo is not banned in all States, check your local regs. Likewise, Raufoss, AP, SLAP(T)... are not banned either. Fun stuff like this is available to the public, some just cost more then others.

Raufoss runs about 35+ PER ROUND, SLAP(T) $20-25 PER ROUND, most people just buy one as a collectable round. At these prices that's all you could afford to do unless you hit the lotto.

 

[TechBrute]

Good to know.

 

[BluesBear]

One of the big ammo guys at the local shows here often has .50BMG APIT(silver band/maroon tip) for $2 each.

It WILL penetrage a gas cylinder.

 

[armoredman]

It is my understanding the armor was 1/2 plate, 12 inches of concrete, and another 1/2 inch plate. Anything hand held ain't gettin' through, unless it has a rocket motor attached!

 

[cracked butt]

Even if the .50 rounds penetrated the tanks, I doubt the guy would have gotten an immediate satisfying explosion- unless the tanks were nearly empty or the walls were weakened enough to split completely open. More likely a BLEVE (burning liquid expanding vapor explosion) would occur. The gas venting from the .50 hole in the tanks would burn as it leaves the tank, as the tank empties, the ability of the metal to cool from escaping gas decreases and the metal is weakened and fails, splitting open and causing a VERY dangerous and spectacular explosion.

 

[sturmruger]

I been doing allot of research on this story. The first thing to mention is they did shoot at this guy with a .50 BMG. They also mention that he had a .50 browning which leads me to think he had a BMG as well.


I personally think this guy was crazy, but there is a small amount of me that admires this guy for all the thought he put into this. He put so much planning into this that he even put grease on all the parts of the dozer that a man could climb up into. What he did was illegal and wrong. Hhe had to be a little off his rocker in the first place, but the way the town came down on him definetly pushed him over the edge.


Here is the link to the Denver Post article


The post also has few other stories as well.


I was trying to think of a few ideas that might have helped to get him out. If they could have found a slight opening I think I would have tried to fill up the cab with water from a fire hose!! IF he was still alive surely he would have tried to escape drowning.