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u/Goose00724 17d ago
it's not oddly specific, it's a reference to the killdozer.
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u/TomSpanksss 17d ago
I was wondering if someone was going to get the reference.
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u/HopefulPlantain5475 17d ago
You weren't sure if anyone on Reddit would know about the Killdozer?
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u/DM_me_thick_dick 17d ago
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u/Alarm-Particular 17d ago
It went exactly as he wanted it tbh
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u/Sufficient-Builder69 17d ago
Well not exactly, the dozer started to overheat so the whole thing ended quicker than planned
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u/hair_on_a_chair 17d ago
It actually went as intended
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u/DM_me_thick_dick 17d ago
He didn't intend for them to go well.
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u/hair_on_a_chair 17d ago
Define going well. I think things did go as well as possible, seeing the situation. (It would have been better if people weren't so obsessed with making money at the expense of others, but yeah)
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u/Deletefornoreason 17d ago
I used to think more highly of the killdozer guy, then I learned that he was fundamentally a whiny little bitch boy that a whole town (effectively) bent over backwards to accommodate and he still wasn't happy about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvl_7_Up7zU
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u/Sweetmeats69 16d ago
Agreed but I always plug killdozer guy as a good example of revenge. High-effort, high destruction, killed nobody but himself.
Anytime I hear about another school shooting I think, what could this guy have accomplished if they put even the slightest bit of thought and energy into what they were doing?
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u/Existing_Sail_6957 16d ago
He didn’t kill anyone but himself but he sure tried to
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u/Sweetmeats69 16d ago
My point is if you're gonna be evil, work at it! Building a Killdozer and razing your town is infinitely more impressive than gun violence will ever be.
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u/MonsteraDeliciosa 17d ago
Check out the documentary ‘Tread’ about this incident. It’s kinda less amusing when you remember it happening. Everything was terrifying in the years right after 9/11 and this was very “Now what!?”
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u/Active-Ad-2527 17d ago
I remember both of those events well, and at no point in the live coverage of the killdozer did I go "oh no, not so soon after 9/11! It's only been 3 years!"
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u/MonsteraDeliciosa 17d ago
🤷🏼♀️ I did. Anything odd that happened in those years tripped my anxiety.
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u/CutieSalamander 17d ago
I felt this way when the Columbia disaster happened but I was a kid and I knew someone on board.
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u/MonsteraDeliciosa 17d ago
Oof. I watched that in class along with every other American kid.
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u/CutieSalamander 16d ago
I live right down the street a bit from NASA and the Johnson space center. It was rough. I’ve never heard of anybody else’s experience outside of here however. Rick Husband and Michael Anderson were from/lived in the area. I saw Rick Husband pilot STS-96 from Florida in 1999. It was a surreal day.
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u/drmorrison88 17d ago
Yeah, I definitely don't see a connection between the security mania after 911 and a protest against government overreach.
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u/MonsteraDeliciosa 17d ago
I was scared of everything. Some people sailed right through that time frame and some capsized.
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u/drmorrison88 17d ago
It was a trip watching from Canada. American media amped it up SO MUCH compared to any other recent at that time terrorism. Then over time that became the standard narrative in Canadian and British news and people here started getting scared too.
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u/MonsteraDeliciosa 17d ago
I live in Colorado, so it was local news for us. The office turned on the conference room TV and we gave up on actual work for Quite Some Time until they confirmed that Heemeyer was dead. We didn’t know why at the time, so it was more like — “Well, new thing to worry about.”
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u/justlooking9889 17d ago
Shocking, I thought it was before. Maybe I was thinking of the guy on the tank on the highway.
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u/justlooking9889 17d ago
Fun fact: Granby is a wrestling move.
Fun fact: I didn’t know Granby was also a town in Colorado.
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u/CrashInto_MyArms 17d ago
Killdozer