Man Goes On Rampage With Tractor For $80 Debt

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Wow, a quarter million dollars worth of damage over a dispute for $80! :ashamed: I hope the guy in jail thinks it was worth because I suspect his neighbor will own him the rest of his life!!


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Police: Man Goes On Rampage With Tractor For $80 Debt

Deputies Say Damage To Home, Vintage Cars Cost $100,000

Posted by Kim Nguyen, Web Editor
POSTED: 8:30 am MST March 11, 2011
UPDATED: 8:58 am MST March 11, 2011
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- A 63-year-old man is accused of going on a rampage in El Paso County with a tractor, partially collapsing a barn and a house of a man he says owed him money.
Authorities told the Colorado Springs Gazette that Jack Herbst took a tractor to Ronald Morphis' property Wednesday. Herbst is accused of overturning a boat, several vehicles and digging a trench in a driveway.
Sheriff's deputies said the damage totals $100,000. The victim's sister, Loranne McLaughlin, told the newspaper the damage amounted to $250,000. She said Herbst destroyed the brick garage, the two-bedroom addition to the home, and six vintage vehicles, including a 1949 Chevy pickup and 1956 Willys Jeep. She also said electrical and phone lines were ripped out and more than a dozen mature elm trees were uprooted.


Deputies said Morphis told them he owed the suspect $80, but Herbst said the debt was much more than that.
McLaughlin said her brother had agreed to buy a trailer from Herbst for $400. He paid Herbst $320 and was planning to pay him the rest when he got paid on Friday, she said.
On Monday or Tuesday, though, Herbst left a voicemail on Morphis' phone saying "I want my $80 or I'm going to flatten everything," McLaughlin said.
Deputies said they found front-end loader tire tracks leading from Morphis property to a neighbor's property. That neighbor had hired Herbst to work on his farm.
Herbst was arrested on suspicion of criminal mischief and is being held on a $10,000 bond at the county jail. It wasn't clear if he had an attorney.
 
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Wow! As Bugs Bunny would say : "what a maroon"

James K0UA
 
   / Man Goes On Rampage With Tractor For $80 Debt #3  
Perhaps a anger management class???:confused2:
 
   / Man Goes On Rampage With Tractor For $80 Debt #4  
I wonder if he will get his $80 now...........
 
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All those assets and the guy can't come up with 80 bucks, something is wrong? But no matter now.
 
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With not knowing all the circumstances, I may have done something similar.
 
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Yah, if I had 6 vintage cars I think I could haul scrap iron on the trailer to get $80 bucks.
 
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Imagine what he would have done for $100!

Probably the same thing his great to the millionth power grandfather did in Atlantis!
 
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now that is pretty bad todo that over $80.but ive heard of worse.its aonder some1 didnt get killed over that.
 
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Either the guy is an absolute nut job or there is more to this story.

If it is the former, it's pretty scary!
 
   / Man Goes On Rampage With Tractor For $80 Debt #11  
first thing that comes to mind 80 bucks or 80,000 buckers.

all that for 80 bucks! wow!
 
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Either the guy is an absolute nut job or there is more to this story.

If it is the former, it's pretty scary!

It is kinda scary. Reading the article, this guy works at a neighbor's farm, that's where he got the loader from. Probably a big one, from the damage done. I'd guess he doesn't have anything to lose.
 
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I really hope there is more to this story. Otherwise it's just scary. Hope the op keeps us up to date.


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Usually, anybody that goes that bonkers over $80 is in need of a drug fix.
 
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I'd like to see the tractor!!! Uprooted mature Elms, da##..
 
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Looks like 3 hots and a cot for quite a while!
 
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My bet is, if we knew all of the story then alot of the these posts would be in the other direction......
 
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Defiantly more to the story...always is. Police say 100k, family says 250k..?

I would tend to think there is more on the mental health side of this story- Sad as it may be. 80 dollars was just the trigger- the blast was something bigger in his life.

I know first hand- the frustration of knowing that people who owe you money have the means and ability to pay- and don't- But certainly nothing I'm going to flip my lid over.......
 

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