How many of you remember this German advertisement for Volkswagen's Polo?
Well, the terrorist who detonated an explosion in a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump Tower in Las Vegas yesterday clearly hadn't seen it - or, if he had, he didn't learn anything from it.
You'll note the comment from law enforcement in that last video clip. The Cybertruck was strongly enough built to contain most of the blast, and vent it upward rather than outward, with the result that (as far as I know) not a single window in the building was broken and no bystanders were hurt. That can't be said of the wannabe terrorist driver of the rented Cybertruck, who was apparently very comprehensively broken indeed - a consummation (or should that be conflagration?) devoutly to be wished.
Elon Musk should think about using that video clip in an advertisement for the Cybertruck. It speaks very well of the vehicle's toughness.
Peter
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Obviously a leftist considering their current screed is that Musk owns Trump, thusly fitting with the symbology of the attack. Also the fireworks are a common tool used by Antifa.
One thing to consider is that Tesla products are instrumented out the wazoo and report back to the corporate mothership.
We are going to have more of these attacks considering that the current CIA/FBI/WEF uses these groups instead of discouraging them.
Definitely a potentially unique selling point: "so well built that you can't use it as a suicide bomb."
I saw late last evening (east coast time) that Musk reported all the telemetry they could access said the Cybertruck was completely normal, adding evidence that this was a planned suicide attack.
So the bomber got part of what he wanted - he committed suicide.
I remember seeing the VW ad on one of those 'Foreign Ad' shows, or maybe it was due to it being controversial at the time.
With what we (think we) know about the bomber, it seems like he didn't really know what he was doing even though his background would make you think he would.
The good(?) news of DIY suicide bombers is that they don't learn from their mistakes. Imagine if all the attacks yesterday were competently executed :^( [shudder]
When you see the colour of the fireball (and that there was a fireball) you knew it had gasoline in it. You also know that it's not to be as an effective blast but something that works visually for media impact.
The ad, however, was a parody and Volkswagen tried to sue the creators, only they couldn't identify them.
An old civilian guy with an RV and propane tank can blow the facade off a multi-story building on Christmas in Nashville but a Special Forces Master Sergeant can't blow out door glass 25 feet away from a truck-bomb parked in a portico.
That sounds about right.
The perp was a long-served Special Forces Sargent...he should know how to build a decently effective IED, I'd think... let alone tonite's news conference w/ the Police Chief that he shot hisself in the head, at the moment of detonation? Two pistols and a fancy AR, bought on Dec.30th, just to burn up like him in the truck? Maybe he went nuts from his wife, a devout Trump hater.... but it's still screwy....
It's all fake and gay. The guy was teaching drones in Ukraine and got nailed by Russia.
Almost 20 years of special forces and he makes a bomb out of black powder and camp stove fuel? Fire so hot you can't I'd the body and STEEL firearms destroyed, but the plastic military id and paper passport survive?
3 letter agencies glow so bright I thought there was an aurora borealis over Vegas.
Anyone who buys the official explanation for the Vegas Not-So-Smart Bomb would buy a bridge from someone over the internet, for cash.
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