A Cybertruck ‘blew up’ outside Trump’s hotel in Las Vegas
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Where the fuck are mods…
Like holy fuck, all the comments blatantly ignore everything?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDyQ93QAao&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F
2 cars rented from the same company both used clearly for terror and all you got to say is “Roflmao! Just Tesla things!”
Fuck this place, worse than Guardian comment section. Yes I am angry and yes I do expect better. I found more civil comments on reddit.
Where do you draw the line? How serious should this place be? I don’t want to report too much as well, you’re volunteering your own time and it’s ultimately your place… Like the comment below of someone finding someone blowing themselves up “funny”, is that acceptable?
It’s like the opposite of early-2000s games, where the car models had an ever-growing poly count but the fire was still an animated 2d sprite.
Says a lot that like nobody knew what to make of it until the propane tanks were found.
Its still unclear if the driver intended for it to explode or if somebody tossed a bunch of flammables in the back and the truck lit it.
Thinking this through, they probably filled the car with gas until they couldn’t breathe and then hit the firework mortar to set it all off. Also gives them a higher chance of ending it all then, as opposed to the “oops, all fire!” version, which would have been a lingering way to go.
Wait, your telling me this was on purpose? I just thought the cyberjunk was so shit, someone visiting the building just HAPPENED to blow up
The vehicle’s battery was not damaged and did not catch fire.
The cargo area was full of fuel and explosives - in the form of firework mortars.
Explosives and fuel make a good fireball and fire. Fireworks being a 2 stage explosive (launch and pretty explosion), they may have expected the initial bang to disburse the fuel and the second to detonate it as a fuel/air explosive which would be very damaging, enough to take down the building.
Obviously were that their goal they did not sufficiently test. The vehicle contained the initial explosion and all they got was a fire
And the blast and fire exited through the passenger cabin, killing the driver. I hope it wasn’t a valet.
I wonder if it was triggered accidentally early or badly set up and detonated on its own or remotely triggered too early.
I bet they thought they’d light up the battery. Poor quality bombers
Poor quality bombers
I’ve seen a source (poor quality source, won’t quote) that identifies the likely suspect as a former green beret. Also, CNN says:
Authorities suspect that the driver had a background in military service, according to several law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation.
They should not be poor quality bombers. In fact, they should be able to build a decent bomb by heart in several ways, if they learned anything at all.
I’m at loss regarding what this guy actually intended to happen, and whether he achieved that.
- Hypothesis A, inspired by claims of links to the New Orleans attack: failed terrorist suicide bombing?
- Hypothesis B: intended to do big time vandalism and live, but something went wrong?
- Hypothesis C: some sort of a suicide pact?
Military experience doesn’t necessarily equate to McGyvering. I did a tour as an Army scout. I can shoot a lot of weapons, use knives and other non pyrotechnic weapons, set-up mines, claymores, use plastic, even creative uses for mortar rounds and grenades, but we were never given training on things like making bombs out of windex and a mars bar
The car was there for 20 seconds according to police chief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjDyQ93QAao&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2F