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[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 147 points 3 months ago (3 children)

For like 3 hours, it was glorious as my friend group wondered what part of the Cybertruck could have spontaneously combusted.

Then video came out and there's colorful lights and we still weren't sure.

It took a official report before we accepted it was a car bomb.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 44 points 3 months ago
[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

All I read is the truck bed was filled with flammables. ' Is there a believable source for

A. Whether the driver started the fire or it was sparked on accident.

B. If it was not intentional, what was the actual target?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Some surprisingly low end explosives for a decorated green beret guy with his level of access. Fireworks and petrol cans?

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Duh the actual target was Terrorism.

Since that word had lost all meaning like I said it would once they stuck it to Luigi.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Terrorism lost it's meaning in America long before Hero Luigi.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 4 points 2 months ago

Fair. The powers that be would stick it to anything but white mass murderers.

[–] arin@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

New years fireworks probably .

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

With military experience he'd know a little about fuel air explosives. Powerful fireworks are sufficient for making such a bomb, though they're technically difficult (you need to trigger the second trigger explosion after the first has spread out the fuel enough to detonate)

I think he was expecting (in Marvin the Martian's words) an earth shattering kaboom but didn't do it right

Done right the amount of fuel would have done serious damage - all the energy released in the fire would have been released instantaneously, with a shock wave

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I’m still not sure if it was an intentional car bomb or if he was transporting fireworks to use later that night and something about the car set them off.

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

A fully enclosed in non-air conditioned truck bed with a black lid in Las Vegas heat perhaps?

Is still probably intentional, otherwise it’s one of the more epic Darwin Awards.

Edit: Autocorrect stole my un from air conditioned.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Front row of the Darwin awards all happen to be cybertruck drivers

[–] psud@aussie.zone -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The lid is stainless steel, not black

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It does in their promotional pictures now too. Colour me surprised. I shouldn't be given how much it changed since the prototypes

I wonder if it's still strong enough to stand on

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

I can't. They're not sold in my country

[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He was shot in the head prior to the explosion going off. Seems unlikely that sequence of events was accidental.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah i just found this out late last night though