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One dead after Tesla Cybertruck catches fire outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas
(www.theguardian.com)
Trumpster fire.
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Is it just me or is it weird that they chose "catches fire" instead of "exploded"?
I have a feeling that it may have naturally caught fire (as in, standard tesla feature) and then fireworks they carried with them exploded.
A picture from this ABC article shows gas cans, camping stove cans, and fireworks in the back of the truck. The truck battery somehow survived.
Hahaha I can spot from a mile away the cans of Coleman (possibly Crown) camp fuel.
"somehow" Tesla armour their batteries well, also the fire was above the battery, little would have penetrated down to the battery and since the headlights stayed on during the doomed events, I expect battery cooling was active throughout
This fucking moron thought cans of liquid gasoline would explode?
They did have explosives in there with them, at least in the form of firework mortars.
Explosives and fuel make a good fireball and fire. Fireworks being a 2 stage explosive, 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
Also, a tip for cybertruck drivers: retract the tonneau cover while carrying explosives and dangerously flammable cargo to add armour between the cargo area and cabin
The driver wouldn't have been so exploded and burnt had they had the back opened and steel between them and the disaster in their cargo area
If this was intentional, I'm guessing being exploded and burnt was the goal.
donvict and the intern might be influencing the reporting, and what's released to the public.
Match made in hell.
With Teslas you don't even need a match.
Cybertruck: You are the kindling!
Take a look at the picture/video https://bsky.app/profile/heyfren.bsky.social/post/3leplxu25722c
I am no expert but that looks kind of intentional. I am curious what the investigation finds out.
Everything I have heard is the cargo area was full of gasoline, camping gas, explosives including firework mortars
None of those things are prone to spontaneously catch fire or explode, so I expect it to be found to have been deliberate
I also expect that like the f150 lightning attack in New Orleans, this vehicle will turn out to have been hired.
I feel like a more flimsy vehicle would have released the fire and explosives more directly against the building, as it was it's only path out was the cabin via windows (the window to the cargo area, then the windows to outside)
The one dead seems to have been the driver
I like this news. Especially after reading about the medication price increases that went into effect today in the US. Burn it down.
While I'm sure many like to comment on the delicious irony/attack towards Trump/Elon, I'm still curious about the "one dead" portion. It sounds like we have no idea who it was that was killed - possibly even just a random bystander from when it went off.
Which would be really terrible if someone was just detonating a stolen car for a political statement, and then ended up killing an innocent person.
The article read as though the person who died was in the truck. Now maybe it was someone who saw the explosives and was trying to get the truck out of there or something, but I'd assume likely the person who triggered it.