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Marvin John Heemeyer (October 28, 1951 – June 4, 2004) was an American automobile muffler repair shop owner who demolished numerous buildings with a modified bulldozer in Granby, Colorado, in 2004. Heemeyer's machine was postumously nicknamed the Killdozer .
American welder Marvin Heemeyer goes on a violent rampage with a secretly fortified bulldozer made up of steel, concrete, and guns after feuding with members of the small town of Granby, Colorado. [4] [5]
When the bulldozer is used to try to shift the meteorite, it emits a blue light that moves to, and seems to possess, the bulldozer. Mack, standing nearby as this occurs, falls ill and then dies some hours later. Chub, the team's mechanic, cannot find anything wrong with the inoperative bulldozer, but can hear the odd sound from the blade.
"Killdozer!" first appeared in the Astounding Science Fiction issue of November 1944. Cover art by William Timmins. "Killdozer!" is a science fiction/horror novella by American writer Theodore Sturgeon, originally published in the magazine Astounding (November 1944) and revised for the 1959 collection Aliens 4.
Slab haulers and other machines show how steel is made. The cast includes a Slab Hauler named Stevie and his friend Sami, also a Slab Hauler. Benny, a Bulldozer piles up fresh coal at the yard near the building, Scott, a Scraper scoops up the coal and dumps it from his bin into the chute to be made into coke.
'The Flintstones' (1960-1966) An animated, prehistoric take on "The Honeymooners," this show ran in prime time (a first for an animated series) with its catchy theme song for most of the '60s.
Marvin Heemeyer goes on a rampage with a 50-ton armour-plated Komatsu D355A bulldozer in Granby,Colorado resulting in 13 buildings destroyed and $7 million in damage. June 5, 2004 ( 2004-06-05 ) (Saturday)
According to Zvyagintsev, the story of Marvin Heemeyer's 2004 rampage through a small US town using a modified bulldozer inspired him. A similar concept was adapted into a Russian setting. [5] The character development of the protagonist parallels a biblical figure Job and the story of Naboth's Vineyard.