Thursday, January 02, 2025

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I’m sure the truck contained the fire. And locked automatically, too.

 Back in Las Vegas, it looks like the “explosive device” in the Tesla was amateurish, at best, just:

an array of propane tanks, fireworks and camping fuel...
The driver did sustain a gunshot wound to the head, which is leading to the theory he committed suicide and then blew the car up. Nobody yet knows how he did that, though.
Livelsberger [the driver of the car] was in the U.S. Army for 19 years, 18 of which were in the elite Special Forces. He was currently stationed in Germany, and was on leave in Colorado Springs when he rented the Cybertruck and drove to Nevada, law enforcement sources said.
In other words, he could have made it so much worse if he wanted to. But his uncle describes him as someone who loved the country, and loved Trump.
Livelsberger’s military ID and passport were found inside the Cybertruck, as well as a Desert Eagle .50 caliber semi-automatic pistol and an SLR Rifleworks B30. Both weapons, and Livelsberger himself, were burnt “almost beyond recognition,” according to McMahill. He said investigators also recovered a cache of fireworks, along with an iPhone, a smartwatch, and several credit cards in Livelsberger’s name. 
Special Agent in Charge Spencer Evans of the FBI’s Las Vegas Division said agents had tracked the vehicle from Denver, through Tesla charging stations in Arizona and New Mexico, before it arrived in Vegas at 7:29 a.m. on Wednesday. 
Kenny Cooper, assistant special agent in charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms’ San Francisco Division, said it remains unclear how the explosives were detonated. He noted that everything used was consumer-grade, such as the camping fuel and propane tanks, in addition to “some explosive targets that can be purchased at any sporting goods store.” Both of the firearms in the Cybertruck had been legally purchased two days earlier, on December 30. Cooper also noted, echoing Dean Livelsberger, that “the level of sophistication is not what we would expect from an individual with this type of military experience.” 
Livelsberger divorced his first wife, who now lives in South Florida with her new husband, several years ago. Livelsberger shares a newborn with his new partner, and in September posted a picture on Facebook of himself cradling the infant in his arms, according to Dean. Over the past few months, an array of photos Livelsberger posted from Germany, including pictures of himself proposing to his partner, and the ring he gave her, have “disappeared,” his uncle said.
My inexpert guess (which is as good as Elmo’s) is that Livelsberger didn’t want a big explosion. If he did, a full tank of gas in a gas powered car would have worked much better, to start with. And a Pinto would have “contained” this blast as well as the Cybertruck did.  Which means either the truck is, indeed, excellently designed, or: the explosion really wasn’t all that bad. Fiery, yes; powerful? Apparently not so much. In fact: I’m pretty sure “totaled” is the term the insurance company is going to use. And I’m not sure “buffing it out” is going to do much for sales. Elmo and his supporters continue to complain that reporting “Cybertruck exploded” is somehow slanderous or even tortious. The thing is, if a Volvo explodes (or even, back in the day, a Pinto), no one automatically connects “Volvo/Pinto explodes” to the car’s battery.

But a Tesla….🤔

The musings of JMM recall us to our topic:
2/ Continue to say: given that we now have evidence from family that the guy was a big Trump supporter very hard to make sense of what was going on here.
For me, that indicates emotional/psychological injury, or even damage, that led to suicidal ideation. Of course, I’m just using words to sound like terminology to sound like I know what I’m talking about. But I can understand how what appears to be a recent initiating event (unknown), could lead a man supporting Trump to use a Tesla to make a statement. One that perhaps made sense to him, but remains inscrutable to us. Suicide itself, after all, is something that doesn’t always make sense to the living. Even when we do explain it, do we explain it the way the suicide did?
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