Aftermath ... one of the wrecked homes
A MAN has been arrested after a CRAZED bulldozing rampage left a street looking like a “war zone”.
Barry Alan Swegle, 51, had been having an “ongoing dispute” with his neighbours before using the heavy machinery to damage cars, boats and four homes in the US town of Port Angeles, Washington.
Barbara Porter was inside her house when she saw the machine come barrelling through a wall.
Crushed ... car has been flattened
She said: "I knew I had to get out of the house because I was afraid he was going to tear it down, and I don't think I would have lived if I had been in it and he had torn it down.”
Demolition man ... homes are damaged
Luckily she escaped the house before she was crushed.
Aftermath ... aerial view of the site
Witness Keith Haynes, who lives nearby, said: “He just went nuts. He took a skidder and took out two houses. I mean demolished. It was like a war zone.”
Neighbour bulldozes homes in rampage
RESIDENTS flee as their neighbour smashes a bulldozer-like vehicle through the walls of their homes
Another witness, Bobee Ward shouted at Swegle to stop.
He said: “When I’m yelling ‘what are you doing?’ he looked right at me. He was just... He was blank-faced. That was it. He didn't care.”
Bulldozed ... rampage left 200 people without power
Miraculously, no one was injured in the incident.
Thousands of people were left without power after the rampage but within hours it had been restored to all but 200 customers.
Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Borte said the machine was an International Harvester TD-25. Its rightful use is for logging.
Dumped ... the huge bulldozer
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