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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.

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[-] ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world 305 points 1 month ago

So she was returning her cybertruck

[-] Lon3star@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

Heyyyy ohhh!

[-] Davel23@fedia.io 195 points 1 month ago

Oh my god! That's horrible!

That she got caught.

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 1 month ago

They've got the wrong person, this woman was with me at the time in question

[-] stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that can't be right, I swear I saw this exact person at the grocery near me, thousands of miles away from Loveland

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[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 month ago

I am also Spartacus. We are all Spartacus. It couldn't have been her, I saw her somewhere else. I think with you.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 137 points 1 month ago

To all the pearl clutchers, it was Molotov cocktails and graffiti, not IEDs. She was vandalizing the dealership.

https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/lucy-grace-nelson-vandalism-suspect-tesla-dealership-colorado-federal-charges/

[-] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

Oh those mischievous 40 year old kids. I say let her go with a warning.

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[-] DarkSurferZA@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] Art3sian@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

I’ve heard the best thing people can do against Musk is to vandalise privately purchased Teslas. I’ve heard that will put mass fear in the market not to buy them.

I’ve heard that vandalising commercially owned Teslas will only result in insurance payouts and more Teslas being made.

I’ve heard that the best way to vandalise privately owned Teslas is to use spray paint, which is relatively easy to clean off (not hurting the owner too much) while being very media-affective.

That’s what I’ve heard.

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[-] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 87 points 1 month ago
[-] skaarl@feddit.nl 72 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] hovercat 27 points 1 month ago

More Americans will become ~~terrorists~~ freedom fighters

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[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 46 points 1 month ago

“…caught trying to plant additional explosive devices”

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 45 points 1 month ago

Although it appeared first glance to be an explosive device in an awkward moment of enthusiasm, it's actually just a Roman Celebratory Sparklemaker.

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

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[-] pipe01@programming.dev 32 points 1 month ago

Great idea, let's kill innocent workers

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 35 points 1 month ago

Dealerships aren't open 24/7. Who said she was planning to kill people?

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[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] cogman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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.

[-] notsoshaihulud@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] korendian@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

I don't have anything against sticking it to the man, but there are better ways to go about this.

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[-] LettucePrey@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago

Not all heroes wear capes

[-] Freshparsnip@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago

Is it fair that this woman is locked up somewhere while Elon Musk roams free?

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[-] onecarmel@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What a fucking idiot. Possibly killing a bunch of employees who are likely just trying to get by ain’t the way to do this…

Edit: wow, some of these comments are unhinged

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[-] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago

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.

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[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago

No, she was with me all day.

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

That "reporter" should be fired for using such inflammatory language. Word play absolutely intended.

[-] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago
[-] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

At first glance, from the thumbnail... I thought it was Christine Weston Chandler.

What a twist that would have been.

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[-] 60d@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago

The hero we deserve!

[-] Aconite@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Beats the hell out of whining that you didn't vote for him.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

This woman is obviously mentally ill. No one in their right mind would repeatedly return to sabotage the same location again and again.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Anti-fascist.

[-] Sewerking@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago
[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I understand the desire for protest against Musk. However, explosives by themselves are dangerous and can hurt you and others.

Further, while the lower end models of Tesla cars use a safe battery chemistry, you should know that high end models of Tesla cars and cybertruck use a chemistry of battery known as NMC (Nickel Manganese Cobalt). Puncturing of a fully charged NMC battery cell will result in a violent chemical reaction which can also hurt you or others as seen here. Please do not use explosives in your protests. Protest without the chance of harm to you or others.

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