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"Fire spreads?" - Elon with a look of visible confusion after ordering his lots be filled to capacity with rolling lithium dumpsters.

I hadn't considered that possibility! Would you look at that, Ukrainians hacked in and wiped all the security footage.

There are about 35,000 or so Cybertrucks that exist.

The last one that spontaneously burst into flames on a dealer lot was about 60 days ago.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1hs7d52/a_tesla_cybertruck_burned_down_at_tesla_lot_in/

I wouldn't call that insanely uncommon, I don't think. There might be something about this model that makes it more prone to fires than your average Tesla.

Pffft, you got a link to that video? That HAD to be intentional.

I'm on the fence... literally!

The vehicles that burned were against the fence. That is a piece of evidence in favor of arson, a random fire has high probability of igniting a harder-to-reach vehicle. Also, the ATF was on the scene. A responsible adult (like the Seattle FIU investigator who was dispatched last night to the scene) called in the feds, and they only do that when they suspect a bomb... or when they want to VERY STRONGLY rule out a bomb.

On the other hand, there's been no preliminary announcement. Elon couldn't keep it to himself when the Las Vegas Cybertruck detonated, he announced it was a bomb the same day. To avoid speculation that it was just a spontaneous battery fire, like Teslas are well documented to have. Given the absolute shitshow that is going on with Tesla's stock price, if there was ANY plausible way to claim that it was arson, the investigators would be under maximum pressure to do so and do so quickly.

My gut? We would have video of the arsonists if it were arson, and Elon would be trying to link them to anything political-looking in public. No video means either no arsonists, or very sneaky arsonists, which usually they aren't. Occam's Razor makes me wonder about the build quality of those recently built Cybertrucks, particularly their battery packs. Apparently Cybertrucks are idling in their thousands on Tesla lots nationwide. It was just a numbers game until another one ignited itself like that one in Georgia did.

Time will tell.

People who don't threaten physical violence often... you know, softies, the part-time tough guys... they don't anticipate how long-lasting the negative reaction from their victims will be.

The annexation talk, the 51st state talk, none of that stuff will be directly linked to whatever counterpunch Canada cooks up, but it'll be hardening the hearts of the Canadian voters to be in favor of ever-more-draconian countermeasures.

I hope those Twitter threats felt great to issue, because we'll all be paying for those for a good long while on every agricultural transaction (among others!) that we make with our closest ally in the coming decades.

Ope, shit, I jumped the gun. My bad!

I'm just a journalist/comedian :) I got no dog in this fight, other than that the appearance of corruption in public programs is newsworthy.

If I'm ever unfairly positive about Tesla, do let me know. Most Tesla fans (and assorted grifters who grift in the same circles) say I'm actually the opposite, that I'm shield-biting Tesla hater, probably a paid Anti-Elon shill and maybe a $TSLA shortseller. They feel that way enough to send me threats from time to time. Neither take is true, but it's funny that I'm getting shot at by both sides.

If you find my stories interesting, you can do me a solid by sharing them on any subreddit or Fedia instance that you think would find them interesting. This publication is a couple weeks old, and that helps me get traction, it's wild that this story is only getting coverage by Canadian outlets.

Powerful Crassus energy to this one.

So, the data has a "commercial" or "consumer" flag, Canada is apparently quite sensible and thought one step ahead of the shady things auto dealers might try - so we'd be able to see if it was a wholesale sort of deal, I think.

It wasn't, all the sales I saw were consumer flagged.

Canadian government thought of that. The sales are marked as either personal or commercial in the database. All the sales I saw were personal.