… Law enforcement sources told CBS News that the Cybertruck was rented to Matthew Alan Livelsberger, an active duty U.S. Army servicemember who was serving in Germany but was on leave in Colorado at the time of the incident. CBS News spoke to two relatives of Livelsberger who were unaware of any involvement in the incident, but who confirmed he had rented a Cybertruck. One relative told CBS News that Livelsberger’s wife had not heard from him in several days.
McMahill said gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters and large firework mortars were found in the back of the vehicle after the explosion, which occurred about 15 seconds after the vehicle pulled in front of the building. It’s still unclear how the explosives were ignited, he said.
Possible lame act of terrorism. Although I do commend the driver for ridding the world of a Cybertruck.
Even if it was symbolic it feels weird.
Kerosene and gas? Fireworks? Sounds more like a party in the desert. Also the gas can was an old metal gas can- there’s a reason you can’t really get those anymore. (Hint- they leak and blow up your truck.)
No obvious mechanism and the timing? Sure he could have lit a fuse with a lighter, but, eh. Just as easily have been a faulty electrical system setting off a spark.
Also Tesla/musk has good motive to want it to be intentional. (cybertrucks already have safety problems. And a lot of them have to do with bad wiring.)
Trump has good reason to want to push this guy as a terrorist- namely the drama.
Even a pinhole of rust in a Jerry can will leak gas into the cabin, faster if shaken on the drive to the hotel. At that point any exposed arc, even just a simple loose ground, could cause the explosion.
He kept the can in the cabin?? Like not the bed? Of the truck?
I said this in another thread- a gas can could have also been for a diesel generator, which people do bring with them when they camp and might do so even if they are also bringing along a Cybertruck. Who knows? If it was a terrorist attack, it was a shitty one so it’s not worth worrying about. If it wasn’t a terrorist attack, just some lone crazy, they did a bad job, so it’s not worth worrying about. Any other possibilities: still really not worth worrying about.
But I’m sure that won’t stop the pundits from worrying about it.
Good point on the generator thing.
But yeah. At worst this was some kinda weird symbolic thing rather than a “try to kill as many people as I can” thing.
Gas cannisters, camp fuel, and fire works. Look of all the random shit that could be considered terrorist related, that just sounds like a redneck prepping to drive out into the Vegas mountains and have a good time.
Apparently a detonation device, too. While a redneck might have fun blowing stuff up out in the back 40, I think the combination of items and location don’t make this a camping trip.
Let’s get this straight: I feel in no way terrorized by anyone targeting the rich or any right-wingers / right-wing politicians. Zero percent terror. Stop calling the thing that makes everyone happy “terror.”
I hope he got the rental insurance.
I don’t know that it would be of much use to him at this point.
I will be invoking Occam and Hanlon’s razors on this incident.
1). The simplist answer is usually the correct one.
2). Never attribute to malice what can accuratly be explained by stupidity and incompitence.
Based on the entities who would like the narrative to be anything other than an accident, im not inclined to believe any reports unless they can validate their findings and prove they dont have interests that align with musk or 47, until such a time I believe it was not intentional, likely a manufacturers defect (which are common for that vehicle anyway).
It was a manufacturer’s defect that the truck was loaded with explosives, fireworks, and a detonator? And I’m not talking about the car battery, that was uninvolved.
It had kerosene, an old metal gas can, and a bunch of fireworks. Those could very easily be supplies for a New Years party in the desert.
One generally does not shoot themselves in the head when going to party in the desert.
Depends on the crowd you’re hanging out with.
