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Killdozer is the name of a 1974 horror film, the name of a 1980s punk rock band, and the name given to a modified bulldozer used in a suicidal revenge attack in 2004 by Marvin Heemeyer.
Killdozer, the movie
Based on a script by science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon, Killdozer was a made for TV horror movie filmed in 1974 that narrated the events surrounding an asteroid that animated a bulldozer with a taste for death.
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Killdozer, the band
Killdozer was the name of a band formed in 1984, with members Bill Hobson, Dan Hobson and Michael Gerald. They released their first album, Intellectuals are the Shoeshine Boys of the Ruling Elite, in the same year. The band reformed in 1993, losing Bill Hobson and gaining Paul Zagoras, and continued until they split up in 1996. The band released 9 albums, including a posthumous live CD, The Last Waltz, released in 1997.
Killdozer is regarded by many to have set the foundation for grunge music, in spite of that genre's association with the city of Seattle.
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Marvin Heemeyer's Killdozer
Killdozer is also the name commonly given to the armored bulldozer constructed by Marvin Heemeyer and used to demolish a significant portion of Granby, Colorado in the United States of America on June 4, 2004.
There is no evidence that Heemeyer ever planned to name his creation, but some feel that Killdozer is an appropriate name (although no one was killed or even injured in Heemeyer's rampage).
Killdozer is a Caterpillar D9 type bulldozer fitted with makeshift armor plating covering the cabin, engine and parts of the tracks, thus making the machine impervious to small arms fire and resistant to explosives. In places, the armor was over one foot thick, consisting of concrete sandwiched between sheets of steel. For visibility, Killdozer was fitted with three video cameras linked to three monitors mounted on the vehicle's dashboard. Weapons, including a 0.50" caliber rifle, were mounted to gunports cut into the armor. Food, water and life support were present in the almost airtight cabin.
Killdozer was stopped only by a failed radiator. As soon as Killdozer ground to a halt, Heemeyer took his own life by shooting himself in the head. Despite the great damage to property, no one besides Heemayer was injured, and he has become something of a folk legend; some see him as a modern-day embodiment of the kind of values that made Billy the Kid and Ned Kelly famous.
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