A woman in Colorado has been arrested after police caught her with expIosives at a TesIa dealership, police said.
The 40-year-old suspect, Lucy Grace Nelson, was arrested on Monday after the Loveland Police Department launched an “extensive investigation” following a series of vandaIizations at the dealership in Loveland, Colorado.
That’s a dude
Just wait til someone invents the first practical incendiary drone that can be easily made on a consumer 3D printer.
In principle, it’s quite simple. All a drone has to do is take off, travel to a fixed set of GPS coordinates, land, and then activate an incendiary of some kind. Maybe a thermite charge, maybe something simpler to set off.
This tech already exists due to the Ukraine conflict. But to my knowledge, it’s never been packaged in a form that’s easily replicable by an average random person in their home. But I see no reason why it couldn’t be. And when it does, all Hell’s going to break loose.
On the more class liberation side, it will make burning down the assets of the rich much, much easier and harder to stop. On the other hand, it will also make it easier for fascists to target those resisting fascism. You’re an activist of some sort. One night, a drone lands on your roof at 2 AM and sets fire to your house. Who did it? Who knows. Good luck finding out.
Hell, on a large scale, this will make it possible for a single individual to cause a disaster on the scale of the firebombing of Dresden. Consider the extremely dry weather and accompanying fires in Los Angeles. That moment, when the city was dry as tinder and the winds were blowing strong. Imagine if at that moment, someone had decided to release a few thousand incendiary drones on the city. Maybe they saved them up, just for this purpose. Consider how valiantly the fire fighters there worked to protect Los Angeles. And now imagine an alternate history where at that moment 5,000 structure fires erupted simultaneously across the city, including multiples started on the roof of every fire station.
The technology already exists. It’s just a matter of someone figuring out how to package it in an accessible form. When that happens, God help us all.
Something like that would be damn near untraceable. As long as you are far away enough and are long gone before anyone notices… and maybe even have a timer to start to give you even more time to disappear they would never be able to find you.
This goes double if you are in an area without a lot of cameras and thus video surveillance canvassing won’t be of much else.
You could even launch it from an extreme distance away. Launch it from the middle of a state forest, in a different state from the target. Have it programmed to fly to a remote location at the limit of its range, then land in a discreet location. Charge its batteries via solar power, then go again. A drone could hopscotch its way to target hundreds of miles away with this method. If you’re worried about a drone successfully making it, then launch a dozen of them. You could even build in a self-destruct mechanism. If the drone ever becomes stuck, or if someone tries to pick it up or move it, have it literally announce “this drone will self-destruct in 20 seconds.” As soon as anyone picks it up, this sequence activates. it gives a warning and then sets off the incendiary. Every incendiary drone has a built-in self-destruct.
Cheap gps enabled drones are very plentiful on the internet. You don’t need to 3d print anything except maybe the parts to hold the bomb. Just need to reprogram them to have them go to a fixed point and trigger a relay with an explosive. It’s trivial, and the fact that it is not common for most people with the skills to do it is because they have a lot to lose if they are caught. Once you take away enough rights and liberties that smart techy people have nothing left to lose then you will see more remote drone attacks.
This is the reason the federal government has been trying to ban drone companies like DJI, they are afraid of the cheap throw away bomb delivery vehicles.
Given the safety record, you could probably drive by and throw a ballpeen hammer at them
2 am high-speed Molotov cocktail?
There are plenty of low tech solutions to some problems.
Buying the Drone leads to easier tracing. They can investigate anyone who bought any Drone for a certain amount of time. But printing one of your own and having far less traceable electronic components makes that job much harder.
There’s a lot of parts in there that may be traceable
Like I said, “nothing to lose” sure they may be able to trace it but by then they are fighting for their life against all odds. Also they could have a “freedom fighter team” where they buy the drones 2nd hand, in bulk, illegally, or just steal them. This would not be a covert operation, it would be a rebel force.
Only to a certain extent. What’s key is that those parts have applications far outside drones. You might even be able to scavenge the non-printable components from old electronics bought for cash at thrift stores, craigslist, Facebook marketplace, etc. There’s a big difference in the traceability of a generic motor that can be used for thousands of applications vs. a fully assembled drone. Hell, if you want to go full unabomber, you could draw your own wires, wind your own motors, and use chips salvaged from old GPS navigation devices and cell phones, everything bought in cash.
The other big issue with traceability is that these devices would be deliberately intended to cause a large fire. They would be far less traceable than a bomb. A bomb blows itself to pieces, but it still leaves many fragments. An incendiary? If it works, the entire building it lands on will be reduced to ashes. There will be precious little of that drone remaining, especially considering that it will be at the very center of the fire.
Although it appeared first glance to be an explosive device in an awkward moment of enthusiasm, it’s actually just a Roman Celebratory Sparklemaker.
My kind of gal
Allegedly!
It wasn’t her.
“…caught trying to plant additional explosive devices”
heh, I immediately thought: “what, was she putting keys in the ignitions?”
Great idea, let’s kill innocent workers
Dealerships aren’t open 24/7. Who said she was planning to kill people?
This one has been involved in multiple incidents seemingly involving her. They also apparently have a security guard so non zero chance someone was working graveyard shift.
Those protecting the owner class don’t count.
Cool story, the jury will still consider it murder.
Night guards are there to protect the product not because it’s a weird 24 hour dealership.
Yeah that doesn’t solve the issue of planting a bomb, though.
“Your honor my client was only engaged in economic terrorism” is not a good excuse.
I’m with you on this one. Elon’s a piece of shit but I feel like the Tesla hate is a bit misplaced. Not that I would drive one.
It’s literally what gives him his power. If he didn’t own such a large portion of Tesla, he’d not have been able to buy his way into looting our government
I own a Tesla (2018). Elon is the brand. CT is very much his napkin design made real. He’s fired everyone that pushes back on him and runs the company as a vanity project.
The hate is not misplaced, until Elon is removed as the CEO I’ll not own another one. Even though I think they are some of the better evs on the market.
why? tesla still represents the core of his wealth and once you’ve driven one, it’s also a ketamine trip into musky’s mind.
No, she was with me all day.
So she was returning her cybertruck
Heyyyy ohhh!
Oh my god! That’s horrible!
That she got caught.
They’ve got the wrong person, this woman was with me at the time in question
I am also Spartacus. We are all Spartacus. It couldn’t have been her, I saw her somewhere else. I think with you.
that can’t be right, I swear I saw this exact person at the grocery near me, thousands of miles away from Loveland
No I saw her here in Australia, no way she’s from america
she was in New zealand in the capital city.
This woman is obviously mentally ill. No one in their right mind would repeatedly return to sabotage the same location again and again.
I don’t have anything against sticking it to the man, but there are better ways to go about this.
There’s much better targets for the explosives
Like what, building your own ultra fast kamakaze drone and going after a terrorist?
I ain’t saying that’s a viable alternative
But it’s probably more fun
Regular drones would work just fine.
On an unrelated note: isn’t it funny that the guy tracking @elonsjet is on mastadon!
Is it fair that this woman is locked up somewhere while Elon Musk roams free?
Don’t forget the J6 terrorists!
All let out.
Based.
Judging by her photo, the right is going to say she did this because she’s trans.
