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.
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
that can’t be right, I swear I saw this exact person at the grocery near me, thousands of miles away from Loveland
I am also Spartacus. We are all Spartacus. It couldn’t have been her, I saw her somewhere else. I think with you.
To all the pearl clutchers, it was Molotov cocktails and graffiti, not IEDs. She was vandalizing the dealership.
In the eyes of the law a Molotov cocktail carries the same penalties as a pipe bomb, both “unregistered Destructive Devices”. It’s the ATF’s bailiwick so it’s not unusual that the feds are involved, strictly speaking.
And upgraded to federal charges. Kash Patel is spending government resources on this for his partisan buddy instead of rightwing extremists and insurrectionists.
A potential 20 year sentence! For $5,000 in damages to luxury vehicles.
Meanwhile, the J6 terrorists are pardoned.
And the child-trafficking Tate brothers are rescued and brought back.
Turns out that the far right wingnuts never ever gave a fuck about children when they started up with the Pizzagate/Qanon/“Save the Children” horseshit.
They just thought it would be a battering ram to be used to round up all the Democrats and Hollywood celebrities they love to hate. I bet many of these dickheads are still dreaming of “The Storm”, and now that Bronzo 2.0 is here, they just might get it, sadly.
Meanwhile, ACTUAL child trafficking they clearly don’t give a flying fuck about, when it comes to how they treat Gaetz, Tate, and Bronzo himself.
She used molotov cocktails and only did $5,000 in damage? I was really expecting to hear a few hundred Gs based on tesla’s prices and the cars I’ve seen go up in flames in the past.
Yeah, $5,000…
She must have totally destroyed tens of cybertrucks
Unpopular opinion inbound: Property destruction of any kind is bad, bombs or molotovs or broken windows. It represents lost productivity and unnecessary environmental damage. You are creating more demand for the same products to be reproduced for no benefit.
Theft on the other hand…
Regarding Nazi property: if it can be turned against them, better; but if not, destruction is second-best.
The loss of productivity and environmental damage of letting Nazis persist in any fashion far outweigh any value the objects hold on their own.
The most value we can extract from that trash is the message it sends as it’s burning to the ground.
Wow - great way to help our cause!
All that’s going to do is make some insurance companies more money. If she’s gonna throw her life away she should’ve just gone after Elon lmao
I only agree with the last 7 words, hard disagree with everything before that tho.
Blowing up Teslas at a dealership gives both the dealership and Tesla more money, as well as makes them have to build another one.
That’s a W for the wrong side, unless you just like seeing aimless destruction
Edit: like if you really wanna blow shit up, go after Teslas that have already been bought. Make people hate owning them, insurance rates for them go up, etc. Much more effective
This is silly. There’s no sustainable way to profit from insurance claims. Whatever short term “profit” Tesla may get from a claim will be wiped out when the insurance companies raise prices to cover it. Insurance companies don’t have unlimited money.
Isn’t this exactly what negotiating with labor unions so workers have good quality of life was made to prevent?
More Americans will become terrorists, and it’s no surprise. They have nothing to loose.
America makes the terrorist, and then asks why me!?
Yup. We’re about to see a whole lot more desperate people in this country.
Things are about to get wild over the next few years.
And it all could have been prevented by not voting for a traitorous felon rapist.
Are you saying that she is/was a Tesla employee?
Ok, I need to explain this to people, but don’t blow up or damage Tesla’s at dealerships. Aside from the usual about being socially responsible, the dealers and Tesla loses money when cars can’t sell and are stuck on lots. Tesla can’t sell a dealership a new car if the dealership can’t sell a car and make space for a new one on their lot. But if you blow up or damage the cars, the dealership just claims from their insurance, they get the money as though they just sold a car, and they have lot vacancies, so Tesla can sell the dealership more stock.
Let the swasticars just sit there and depreciate on the dealership floor. That’s the real way to fuck em.
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And if Tesla dealerships are significantly higher risk their insurance will go through the roof.
Tesla only does direct sales, no dealerships. Otherwise, point taken. Carry on.
Tesla gets around the whole “dealership” thing by calling them “Tesla Stores”. You can go there and buy a car, so essentially it’s a dealership.
Here’s one I picked at random:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/dTUisHrPt1gcEkWN7?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy
The main difference is Tesla owns the showrooms not a 3rd party.
Why does the title literally say “Tesla dealership”?
Because that’s what the author is used to calling a place that sells cars.
If you get rid of the building only though and not the cars, that’s double damage.
TBF insurers could start denying coverage if it becomes an obvious concern: and it very clearly is.
Owning a tesla is a pre-existing condition.
Tesla’s stock price is mostly detached from sales either way.
I don’t think these “dealerships” are independent. Pretty sure they are directly owned by Tesla.
Insurance isn’t a magic money machine that erases costs; insurance isn’t free money. This is the logic that results in thieves driving small mom and pop shops out of business. Someone will hold up a gas station thinking, “well, insurance will pay for it.” But every time a business makes a claim, their insurance premiums go up. And just like car insurance, if you make too many claims, eventually you’ll be dropped from coverage, or your premiums will become completely unaffordable. You simply become too great a risk for insurance to cover.
Honestly, torching a Tesla dealership is likely the quickest way to get it shut down. If you just let the cars sit there, they’ll keep cutting the asking price until they sell. Teslas might be unfashionable, but plenty of people living paycheck-to-paycheck will ignore the bad optics if it means they get a hell of a deal on a new car.
But if a dealership is burned to the ground? The dealer was probably already resenting being in the business before the arson attack. Most of these guys became Tesla dealers back when Elon had a very different reputation. But now they can’t just walk away; they have contracts, leases to pay, a franchise agreement, and a pile of inventory that won’t sell. Hell, they probably have once or twice contemplated burning the whole place down themselves just to get the insurance money. And now they have the perfect opportunity to walk away, without having to commit felony insurance fraud. Some random do-gooder just came by and did the criming for them. Sure, they could rebuild, but why? They have an insurance check for millions of dollars. They could spend that rebuilding, getting new inventory etc. But why? Why go to all that trouble, just to end up back selling cars people revile?
I think most people in that situation, unless they were already die-hard MAGA types, would simply chose to take the win and walk away. Maybe they stay in the car business and open up a franchise with some other automaker. Maybe they get out of car sales all together. But there’s little reason to stick with Tesla.
That’s the real value of arson right now. There are tons of Tesla dealers who would honestly probably welcome an arson attack against their dealership, as long as no one was in the building at the time. They could never say so publicly, but honestly, an arson against a Tesla dealership might be the best thing that ever happened to many of the dealership owners.
People don’t want to fly planes because they’re falling out of the sky. A Tesla dealership explosion would’ve done some significant PR damage, and may keep people from visiting them.
But, you’re right, it seems like Tesla is collapsing on its own without the need of terrorist attacks. But, the nonviolent Tesla graffiti is funny though.
Tesla doesn’t have dealerships. All show rooms are owned by Tesla.
Correct. Dealerships reselling would benefit from insurance, and insurance of lots with Tesla’s would go up for everyone.
But if you blow up or damage the cars, the dealership just claims from their insurance, they get the money as though they just sold a car, and they have lot vacancies, so Tesla can sell the dealership more stock.
This is only true if you look at events in a vacuum.
Dealer makes insurance claim, gets money
Not inaccurate, but the dealership also has to rebuild/shut down for a time after the event for safety reasons. And they’ll be paying more for their liability coverage, especially if they continue to sell cars that are targets for unhappy citizens.
gets money back as if they sold it
They may get the sticker/wholesale price for it, but they lose out on various incentives, manufacturer kickbacks, and any interest/financing fees as well.
Have lot vacancies
And a fucked up lot, requiring construction crews (which impede business) and probably extra insurance
Tesla can sell more stock
Eventually, but the loss in lot space and the delay in getting it back is going to hurt a lot more.
Not to mention that it will be increasingly difficult to retain employees if their workplace is a target. If McDonald’s started getting shot up/destroyed because Ronald was a mask-off nazi, I would be into another job ASAP.
It was’t explosives
Nelson returned to Loveland Tesla while in possession of additional incendiary devices, along with materials attributed to vandalism
Nelson was immediately arrested and booked into the Larimer County Jail after being charged with explosives or incendiary devices use during felony, criminal mischief and criminal attempt to commit a Class 3 felony, authorities said.
Perhaps the law lumps them together as the same thing?
It does, but saying they got caught with a bottle of lighter fluid isn’t very exciting.
Outside of one-in-a-billion shots like Mangione, we’re still at the discomfort level of unreliable whackadoos being the only ones to try violent direct action. Which means that instead of picking targets that would actually make an impact, they’re picking personally symbolic targets that they have easy, ready access to. And they’re not even hitting those targets with real success / possibly creating innocent collateral in the process.
We aren’t there yet.
There’s also the simple reality that the vast majority of people cannot dedicate the time and resources it takes to plan and execute the assassination of a CEO or national politician. When you’re working 60 hours a week to keep food on the table for your family you don’t really have a ton a of free time for relentlessly tracking and stalking your target.
I’m more worried about right wimg extremists knowing they will be pardoned. They can go after soft targets. Want to bet the suoreme court will say that states can no longer file charges if the feds do? Then the feds can file charges, thepetson can admit guolt and be out the next day. Local and state politicians and activista are in the most danger.
What would be better(in Minecraft)?
Not guilty.
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Anyone who saves their country has committed no crime.
I agree that’s a better way to say it, but I wanted it to mirror Trump’s own words and use them against him
Funny that by quoting our current president, you got your post deleted as offensive.
I should run for office. Apparently I have what it takes.
Do it, but you’ll need to stay in character 24/7.
Funny how quoting our President violates the rules against advocating violence. 🤔
I mean, on Jan 6th, he quite literally said “We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country any more.”
Although it appeared first glance to be an explosive device in an awkward moment of enthusiasm, it’s actually just a Roman Celebratory Sparklemaker.
“…caught trying to plant additional explosive devices”
heh, I immediately thought: “what, was she putting keys in the ignitions?”
Not all heroes wear capes
Beats the hell out of whining that you didn’t vote for him.
The hero we deserve!
This woman is obviously mentally ill. No one in their right mind would repeatedly return to sabotage the same location again and again.
Not the hero we deserved but the hero we needed.
