There was a weaponized car attack in New Orleans last night. Shamsud din Jabbar drove a Ford F-150 Lightning through Bourbon Street killing at least 10 people. He had an Isis flag on the back of his truck. (The truck was rented through Turo.) There were apparently explosives on the truck as well but, luckily, they didn’t go off.
There was a Tesla Cybertruck explosion in front of one of Trump’s properties in Vegas today. Several people were injured but only the driver was killed. (The Cybertruck was rented through Turo as well.) Elon Musk has confirmed that it was due to large fireworks or a bomb.
The Air B&B rented by the New Orleans truck driver has, apparently, burned down.
The alleged terrorist apparently ended up making a Tesla ad instead:
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Hey, Colorado Springs is in the news!
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They’ve identified the Cybertruck guy: Matthew Livelsberger.
In another coincidence, he served at the same bases as the New Orleans soldier.Report
The wild thing to me is the first thought I had about the Vegas explosion was, “Yeah, sometimes those things just spontaneously combust.”
Who knew LVPD would turn out to be Tesla spokesmen?Report
If they were telling the truth, it’s one hell of an ad.
If they were lying, they should be defunded.Report
Of all the ways for the NOLA terrorist to access Bourbon Street with his truck, to find out it was directly from Canal Street is shocking. What a spectacular failure by NOPD.Report
Most of the time those are still streets with cars on them – what with people living and working there. The Bourbon street access was also closed – in as much as temporary barricades can close anything. There’s also reporting that he drove onto the sidewalk, so very little likely would have stopped him.
NOPD’s failures are legion – any other day of the week this wouldn’t have made the top 25.Report
I understand how the Quarter works. My shock isn’t that the terrorist was able to get his vehicle onto Bourbon Street. It’s that he went through the front door (Canal/Bourbon) where they have the highest concentration of police complete with that semi-permanent mobile unit.
There are far softer access points to Bourbon, especially coming from the opposite side of the Quarter via Esplanade or from the NW side (Armstrong Park). With the bollards being down from St Anne to Canal, I guess he figured as long as he could get past that initial pocket of resistance, he’d have a clear run to St Anne. Thankfully he didn’t get that far… Thankfully he did this at 3am and not around midnight.Report
Reporters are going through the NOLA truck driver’s home.
Like, why aren’t the cops clearing that place out instead?
You know what this reminds me of? The San Bernardino shooters’ apartment videos.Report
(We discussed the San Bernardino thing here, for the record.)Report