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Man Plotted ‘Mass Casualty’ Attack At Tesla Event Attended By Elon Musk, Officials Say
OAN ^ | 12/1/23 | James Meyers

Posted on 12/01/2023 12:27:46 PM PST by Impala64ssa

A Florida man has been arrested for allegedly planning to commit a mass casualty incident at a Tesla-sponsored event hosted by CEO Elon Musk.

Advertisement According to a Travis County arrest warrant, Paul Ryan Overeem, 28, was booked on suspicion of making a terrorist threat, which is a third-degree felony.

Authorities said that on November 9th, the 28-year-old, going by the handle “ufotnoitalumis,” made many online threats against Tesla’s Cybertruck promotional event in Austin, Texas, on Thursday. He conveyed these messages via an Instagram exchange.

The threats included: “But yeah so at teh (sic) Tesla event I’m planning to attach (sic) so up to you guys to stop me… I plan on killing people at that even (sic) ok (sic) November 30th and I would like you do something about it so I don’t have to” as well as “I wanna die.”

Additionally, Overeem blamed “technology” as being a key reason why he was not able to express himself.

“I wanna die. My thoughts haven’t been free for over a year. All the electronics around me,” he wrote, according to the arrest warrant

According to Travis County Sheriff’s Detective Jennifer Borland, the statements created Overeem’s potential to “carry out his threats of a mass casualty event.”

Instagram gave authorities the phone number associated with the user account “ufotnoitalumis,” which was traced back to Overeem, whose Chevy Tahoe truck was then later spotted in Austin, according to the affidavit.

Overeem was booked into custody on Wednesday and is currently being held on $300,000 bail, jail records show.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: austin; crime; elonmusk; floridaman; musk; overeem; paulovereem; paulryan; paulryanovereem; tesla; texas; x

1 posted on 12/01/2023 12:27:46 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

Thank goodness it was only Florida Man so the scheme was poorly planned.

And “all the electronics around me” means he doesn’t even know to put on a “tinfoil hat” (aluminum foil).


2 posted on 12/01/2023 12:30:33 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging.It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sounds like a Bee name: Paul Ryan Overeem LOL!

Did Paul Ryan and Alistar Overeem (MMA fighter) have a love child?


3 posted on 12/01/2023 12:32:00 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Impala64ssa

“...arrested for allegedly planning to commit a mass casualty incident at a Tesla-sponsored event ...”


He was going to recharge a flood-car Tesla and bring it to the event.


4 posted on 12/01/2023 12:41:49 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Impala64ssa

The UFOs our FReeper friends say can do this, did it.


5 posted on 12/01/2023 12:42:53 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sheesh. Did he have a gub, too? What atrocious spelling and grammar.


6 posted on 12/01/2023 12:46:37 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Impala64ssa

Can a Tesla power an electro-shock therapy machine?


7 posted on 12/01/2023 12:50:16 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: Impala64ssa

Sounds like your typical democrat base voter to me. Except quite a bit more intelligent than the average Democrat voter.


8 posted on 12/01/2023 12:56:14 PM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Impala64ssa

“HE WANTS TO DIE”

HELP HIM TO DO SO.


9 posted on 12/01/2023 1:09:56 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Impala64ssa

He couldn’t express himself because of technology, so he made ONLINE threats? What am I missing?


10 posted on 12/01/2023 1:20:55 PM PST by BikerJoe
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To: Impala64ssa

Musk needs to realize that he is now a target.


11 posted on 12/01/2023 1:37:21 PM PST by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: Impala64ssa

What? A casual mass gathering of Tesalites? Assclowns gonna be assclowns

🙏🇺🇸🇮🇱👍


12 posted on 12/01/2023 1:52:00 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Impala64ssa

“They’re blinding me with science”


13 posted on 12/01/2023 1:59:02 PM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now... )
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To: Impala64ssa

This is one instance where a tin foil hat could have helped this man. All those commands over the airwaves telling him to go after Musk would have been blocked, filtered out..


14 posted on 12/01/2023 2:42:38 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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To: Impala64ssa

Proof the mental hospitals closed in the 1970s need to be reopened ASAP!

Problem is if they are reopened and the 1950s standards for incarceration are brought back many of the Biden Administration will be the first in line for beds.


15 posted on 12/01/2023 2:50:19 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Impala64ssa

The excerpt contains no evidence of an actual plot or plan beyond the nutter’s words. So yeah, good idea to round him up but let’s not get carried away


16 posted on 12/01/2023 3:24:13 PM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: Impala64ssa

The deep state it letting Elon know he has a bullet with his name on it if he doesn’t play ball.


17 posted on 12/01/2023 8:18:35 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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