Christmas Day Bombing in Nashville?

[JedisonsDad]

I’ll try to find the link again, but they interviewed the guy’s neighbors. They had nothing but positive things to say about him. They said he wasn’t political, wasn’t religious, and was extremely nice to animals so they weren’t surprised he played audio to evacuate the area. They also said that he was a computer guru and his house was surrounded by security cameras and he additionally had a large antena attached to his house. About two months ago he built a fence and moved his RV inside because “he was worried people were trying to break into it”. *Sounds very kill dozer to me* Some internet sleuths have linked him to anti-5G content, and how it’s being used to spy on the US people.

Sadly, it seems like a nice old guy (because he evacuated, rather than taking others with him) that had too much time alone with his thoughts and no one to steer him right.
Edit to add killdozer bit.

 

[Cookie_]

They had nothing but positive things to say about him. They said he wasn’t political, wasn’t religious, and was extremely nice to animals

*Sounds very kill dozer to me*

Having been to Granby and spoken with locals about the killdozer guy, I can say most of his neighbors thought he was a wacked-out prick.

Comparisons aside, your comment does make me wonder about the mental faculties of the bomber though.

Killdozer dude was hearing "the voice of God" tell him to take revenge on the town and those who had wronged him; maybe there may be a similar dementia/schizophrenia type cause here.

 

[JedisonsDad]

Having been to Granby and spoken with locals about the killdozer guy, I can say most of his neighbors thought he was a wacked-out prick.

Comparisons aside, your comment does make me wonder about the mental faculties of the bomber though.

Killdozer dude was hearing "the voice of God" tell him to take revenge on the town and those who had wronged him; maybe there may be a similar dementia/schizophrenia type cause here.

I might have not punctuated correctly, but I was referring to him moving the RV behind a fence, most likely to prepare it, as the kill dozer reference. Not his neighbors opinions on him.

I think it’s Netflix that has a documentary on the dozer guy, and yeah, he seemed like an abrasive ass.

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

So I was in Northern Alabama on Christmas day, about two hours or so south of Nashville. Our extended family has AT&T, and after the attack, none of us had service. Like... at all. Wifi and house phone still worked, so we were able to have comms, but it was very interesting that cell service was completely down. It was down all Christmas Day, and when we started driving home the day after Chrismas, we didn't have cell service again until we got outside of Chattanooga.

I don't know if the outages were related to the attack on the AT&T hub in Nashville, but for purposes of this discussion I'm assuming that they were. If that is the case, then there is an extraordinary lack of resiliency in our cell comms, at least in AT&T. An attack like this--in only one location, against only one hub--shouldn't have dropped comms over such a large area, IMO. That's pretty bad contingency planning.

Also, since ammo is like unobtainium up north where we now live, my daughter and I stopped off at the Bass Pro Shops mega-store just outside of Knoxville on our drive home. Oh they had ammo, all right, just in calibers for weapons I have literally never owned (28 gauge shotgun, 7.62 x 54 rifle) or for guns I will probably never need to buy ammo for again (12 gauge bird shot). I was prepared to drop a lot of money in the store and was considering buying another gun, but their credit card system was down and they were only accepting cash. Since I'm no longer in the habit of carrying a gangster-sized wad of cash with me anymore, I ended up buying nothing. and left feeling pretty annoyed. I bring this vignette up because I later wondered if the credit card issue might be tied in with the attack on the AT&T hub as well. I think this is far less likely, as I've been in plenty of stores over the years when their card readers went down. But still, for a company like Bass Pro to not be able to take credit cards at one of its flagships stores on the day after Christmas... again, very bad contingency planning.

If the credit card system was down, depending on the store usually the internet is also down. So they have intranet capabilities for single store stock accounting but they can't communicate outside.

This is troubling. On a similar note, the Russians were doing flyovers and strange operations such as having their agents walk around in circles right above our underground fiber optic node hubs. Don't know if it's still going on.

Russian Consulate San Fran

 

[AWP]

An attack like this--in only one location, against only one hub--shouldn't have dropped comms over such a large area, IMO. That's pretty bad contingency planning.

For a second I thought you were talking about the DoD...

 

[Marauder06]

For a second I thought you were talking about the DoD...

I mean...

 

[racing_kitty]

Damn! A girl can’t take a Christmas break without shit happening.

I’m at work, so it’ll be later on before I can wade through this and put in my two cents’ worth. I will say that it was a head scratcher from the jump, for a lot of reasons.

 

[Kaldak]

RK to the rescue!!!

 

[Ooh-Rah]

RK to the rescue!!!

 

[TYW27]

Did anyone else notice that the RV broadcast message changed to “stay clear of this vehicle” when the Nashville Police walked near it while evacuating 2nd Avenue? That was freaking creepy. See 2:06

Looks like dude was not just using a recording but Microsoft Anna and manually using it to create messages. That’s my thought anyway.