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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 ]
"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.
As the high voltage electricity conducts through the bulldozer, the alien entity emerges as an aura around the machine, but there is nothing close by for it to transfer to: the aura finally fades. The men shut down the power and check the blade: no sound. Though Kelly realizes his story will not be believed, he intends to tell the truth.
Marvin Heemeyer was a local auto muffler shop owner who had multiple disputes with the town over zoning, sewage, and other issues. [8] As a result, on June 4, 2004, Heemeyer went on a rampage through town, driving a modified bulldozer . [ 9 ]
The true story even inspired a 2022 Netflix docuseries, Don’t Pick Up the Phone, which follows the investigation into a series of hoax calls that targeted fast food chains across the United ...
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.
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