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Incredible Story of Man Who Blew Himself Up in His Truck Injuring 2 People Done for ‘Revenge’

Mar. 20, 2013 12:55pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Man Who Blew Himself Up in His Truck & Injured 2 People Did it For Revenge

Personnel from Patton Volunteer Fire. Company search for survivors of a house explosion in Clearfield Township, Cambria County, Pa. State police, firefighters and the coroner were investigating after one person was killed and two were injured in the explosion outside a western Pennsylvania house.

A western Pennsylvania man who blew himself up in a truck outside a house and injured two people inside did it for “revenge” according to the Johnstown, Pa. Tribune-Democrat.

Police say 40-year-old Bradley Kollar of Hastings, Pa. skipped a court date Tuesday morning and instead loaded his truck with explosives and drove to the home of William Shaner in Clearfield Township. The massive 9 a.m. explosion was felt from miles away and left the site “looking like a war zone,” including leveling the residence, according to the newspaper.

Shaner was in critical condition as of Tuesday night. A male teenager who was also in the home at the time of the blast was in unknown condition, according to the Altoona Mirror. Two other children were believed to have just left for school.

“I believe both of those victims were transported by ground EMS units to a local medical facility for treatment of the injuries they sustained,” Trooper John Matchik told the Mirror. “We are treating this as a criminal investigation at this point.”

The coroner ruled Kollar’s death a suicide.

Sources told the Tribune-Democrat that Kollar thought Shaner had “snitched” on him and his father, 64-year-old John Kollar. Bradley Kollar had been due in court on charges of running a chop shop and a meth lab from his family’s property, the newspaper reported.

A damaged garage and vehicles are adjacent to a house explosion in Clearfield Township, Cambria County, Pa. , Tuesday March 19, 2013. (AP)

Authorities have not released an official motive, according to the Mirror.

According to the Tribune-Democrat, bits of building material and paper were seen hundreds of yards from the scene hours after the blast, which was initially reported as a meth lab explosion.

‘Everything is under investigation right now,” Matchik told WTAJ-TV.

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762x51
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:09pm
Guess he showed them . . .

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- Vision Harry
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 6:25pm
  They left out some details about the Perps’ eye color…Blue. One blue over there and the other blue way over yonder.
  
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republic2011
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:58pm
Sorry Dianne, no guns used in this one, so you can’t use it. Move on.

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- Ofra1
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 5:00pm
  I think we need stricter truck laws!
  
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RoAdFiXeR
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:57pm
If outlawing explosives could save one crackhead……

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Conner79
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:36pm
Drone strike…definitely drone strike.

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Smokepole
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:21pm
Strange twist to this; local Pittsburgh TV stations reported this like someone got a speeding ticket. I smell something larger…

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- jeanr
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:29pm
  Like what? I am pretty familiar with the situation so I would be happy to tell you what I know.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:53pm
  @ jeanr
  
  Yes, you could do something for us. Please, let us know if there is an effort to impeach the judge and who the judge is.
  
  Can they impeach judges in Pennsylvania? Was this a federal case? If it was a federal case then Congress needs to impeach this judge.
  
  Thank you in advance for your help.
  
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- jeanr
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:42pm
  It was the county DA who tried to revoke the bail, so I would assume it was a county judge too. I am not sure which judge it was or what the impeachment proceedings would be. I’ll find out. But they do have to run for election every 10 years.
  
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- jeanr
  Posted on March 21, 2013 at 8:26am
  Judge Norman Krumenacker
  
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jeanr
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:13pm
He tried to blow himself up shortly after his release from the arrest for the chop shop/meth lab situation, but it didn’t explode. The Cambria County DA tried to get his bail revoked due to the attempt, but the judge refused.
This happened in a very rural area, which is why the casualites were confined to this property. But this guy had no regard for others. Even if it happened in the nearby small town of Patton, dozens of people would have been killed due to this guy’s selfish obsession with revenge.

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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:11pm
Time to ban chevy’s democrats

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The-Monk
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:02pm
“A western Pennsylvania man who blew himself up in a truck outside a house…”

Looks more like a Winnebago exploded.

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SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:58pm
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Guess he couldn’t pass a background check…….

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Locked
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:43pm
“Police say 40-year-old Bradley Kollar of Hastings, Pa. skipped a court date Tuesday morning and instead loaded his truck with explosives and drove to the home of William Shaner in Clearfield Township.”

I originally read the victim’s name as “William Shatner” and almost freaked out!

That said, isn’t the title a little odd? I’m not sure that a suicide bomber’s story is “incredible.”

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P4cooler
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:34pm
No handguns or rifles in this incident. Guess the liberals can’t use this story to prop their anti 2nd amendment tyranny. Right, FEINSTEIN?

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- CarRamRod
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:10pm
  Someone really should make explosives illegal. That goes double for meth and chop shops.
  
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- 762x51
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:11pm
  Sounds like this whole incident could have been prevented if only explosives were banned . . .
  
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Stoic one
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:29pm
INCREDIBLE STORY OF MAN WHO BLEW HIMSELF UP IN HIS TRUCK INJURING 2 PEOPLE DONE FOR ‘REVENGE’

Such incendiary headlines. Strike the first three words. There is nothing incredible here. Apparently this WAS a mentally immature criminal. Every time some wack job does something outrageous we get to know all the details of said criminal….next we will find out this creep had crabs and they survived!

What about the day to day heroes that prevent such tragedies?

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:24pm
Someone does something against you. Be patient. Do Nothing. It ALWAYS comes Back to Haunt them. Besides What man can make, man can break. And There is a way out of everything, you just have to think of it. This is the most HONEST thing I can tell you I have seen. Time and Time again. If you die or go to Prison. Who Wins?

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FightingBear
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:24pm
Here is the question that begs to be answered: Why was there not a law against loading your vehicle with explosives and detonating them in front of someone’s house?

If only there had been a law…we wouldn’t be reading this today.

They really need to consider a ban on detonating cars loaded with explosives.

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spirited
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:22pm
Will this be called work place related violence?
or
~>Will background checks be mandated for a drivers licence?

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AquamanSucks
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:21pm
This is your brain.

The picture above is your brain on meth.

Hope the injured recover.

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Tickdog
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:17pm
wow.

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termyt
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:16pm
When will we realize – how many times does this have to happen before we finally outlaw assault weapons??

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BigFoot
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:08pm
Bet he won’t do that again.

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biohazard23
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:07pm
Creative, to say the least. However, let’s hope he’s successful in his endeavor to remove his genetic material from the gene pool.

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travlman77
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:07pm
Sometimes problems take care of themselves.

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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:04pm
  A person alledgedly involved in a chop shop & meth lab commits suicide.
  
  I can’t say the problem is solved unless it was a one man operation.
  
  I can’t say the problem is solved. Did he find a life of crime easier initially, more profitable or he felt that he could not find a job.
  
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- jeanr
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:14pm
  It was he and his father. His father is still alive, but I am not sure if he is jailed or not right now.
  
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- Walkabout
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:45pm
  @ jeanr
  
  I guess that answers the question. It is hard to find good jobs, but it seems he engaged in crime because he thought it easier &/or more lucrative.
  
  His father it seems helped lead him astray
  
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- jeanr
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 3:51pm
  Houses that are for sale have been broken into to steal copper. Near Pittsburgh, somebody cut a gas line and blew himself up doing this not that long ago.
  People also managed to take down an entire cell phone tower and cut it up for scrap in one night in the area too a year or two ago. It is a very strange time around this area.
  The guy who killed those 3 people (including the lady decorating a church for Christmas) on Myan Apocolypse day was not far from here, either.
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:06pm
Oh, darn, I thought that Muslim guy getting his plumbing expanded had a successful test run of his A-Bomb, we’ll keep checking back?

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:06pm
That is one wild ride for a headline, but I digress.

Listen up, kiddies. Drugs are bad, m’kay? Don’t take them. Don’t make them. Don’t sell them. Don’t go near them. All drugs do is ruin lives.

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Small World
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:06pm
I guess it wasn’t a bomb restricted area.

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- oldguy49
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:09pm
  I believe the correct term is “bomb free zone”
  
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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:04pm
God above help those two hurt in the blast with a full and speedy recovery; and help us from having any nut-case copycats do the same.

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- spirited
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 1:12pm
  Amen to all of that
  
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- jeanr
  Posted on March 20, 2013 at 2:24pm
  He did this shortly before 9:00am. There was a 2-hour school delay, so a group of kids had been standing near the property waiting for the bus only moments earlier. This could have been very, very bad. I have no idea if it was divine intervention or not, but it’s fortunate that this guy was only good at making bombs but not very effective in using them the way that he intended.
  
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