1 Dead After a Cybertruck Explodes Outside the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas
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Not a lot of info, yet. It looks like the driver is the only person who died. It may have been explosives in the truck, not the truck itself, that set it off.
And, as per the AP, the Cybertruck was rented through the Turo car-sharing app, which – perhaps not coincidentally – is being reported as having also been the case with the truck used in the New Orleans attack.
CNN is reporting that they are looking into this as a terror attack.
What a year.
I guess we could say it’s off to a bang-up start.
I wonder if this person was trying to do an Oklahoma City v. 2.0.
Watching the local news here in Chicago, and they just showed a clip of a press conference with the Vegas police department. At the press conference, they showed a picture of the back of the truck (after the fire was put out), which the speaker from the Las Vegas police said was filled with “gasoline canisters, camp fuel canisters, and large firework mortars.”
Sounding less and less like an accident.
Sounds like a pretty good New Year’s party to me.
If so, it was an epic fail. The Oklahoma City bombing registered 3.0 on the Richter scale and destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a four block radius. This one didn’t even break the front windows of the hotel. Didn’t even crack them.
According to Wiki, Oklahoma City involved " 4,800 pounds (2,200 kg) of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, nitromethane, and diesel fuel mixture", which makes this one sound like a prank by comparison.
This is a perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
Or someone planning to drive out to the desert and setup a wilderness camp with an impromptu mini-burning man event with family and friends.
Shoot, a fella could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
Which they succeeded in.
Yup: a literal dumpster fire.
So a coordinated Turo-ist attack?
A cybertruck, fireworks and a trump hotel. Just a weird combination. Maybe a political statement explosion?
Not enough information make sense of it all.
[Carnac the Magnificent] “Name three duds!”
Trump hotel + Cybertruck + bomb blast + dead person in car = deliberate suicide attack on the incoming administration, is what seems likely at this point.
For whatever my opinion is worth.
(McMahon voice) You are correct, sir.
I am old enough to hear that in Johnny Carson’s voice.