His mother abandoned him at birth, so his father raised him, putting him to work in the junkyard crushing old cars.
Israeli tanks routinely crush Palestinian cars that are in the way.
Usually, a monster truck show involves the truck crushing smaller cars under its huge tires.
Enormous clashings of broken glass, as if tons of bottles were being crushed, cars, voices laughing under her windows, motorbikes starting up.
In city after city, newspapers seem to be hurling themselves into the newspaper version of those big compactors that crush old cars.
"We're using finite element analysis now," he explains - to crush cars better!
Professor Hassassian and other residents said Israeli soldiers and snipers were firing on unarmed civilians, crushing cars and destroying homes during searches.
In this new form, he found he had superhuman strength enabling him to crush cars and tear through steel as though it were made of cardboard.
In April 1981, Bob Chandler drove over cars in Bigfoot in what is often believed to be the first monster truck to crush cars.
Army tanks crushed several official cars.