Customs & Border Patrol have put out a video from surveillance footage and I would say ‘high speed’ is an accurate description. I can’t estimate exactly how fast it’s traveling but it goes fully airborne and clears what is apparently an eight-foot fence with probably six to eight feet to spare. I’m not sure what V2min is for that specific model, but I’d say it attained it and then some.
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Right-almost 6,000 miles through some very wild wilderness-that’s really going to work.
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Well… there was a bit of terror, just maybe not deliberately caused by the occupant of the car.
(I’m being very careful with language there, because the usual suspects are very definitely going to try to use the incident to invoke terror whatever happened, but that’s a different thing.)
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Looks a lot like that, yes. Even including the trail of dirt falling from the vehicle as it flies past.
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Seems to be a thing. I was looking for one story and found multiple. Here are three, 2011-2019. I didn’t find the one I remember:
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America’s right-wing media treated fiction as fact, speculating the explosion at a Canada-U.S. border crossing near Niagara Falls was a terrorist attack from Canada — feeding calls for a northern border wall.
It’s so mind-meltingly infuriating that they find an explosion of unknown nature that killed two people so terrifying that they’d build a 5,500-mile-long border wall to stop it from happening again but they won’t take any action at all to mitigate the scores of Americans who die from gun deaths every single day.
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I’m getting mild echoes of Wag the Dog here. Certain “news” outlets would grab anything that might distract from certain legal proceedings.
On the other hand, “Canada attacks US on Thanksgiving” as a reboot of Red Dawn, yeah, I’d watch that.
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Two more data reports:
- Apparently the vehicle involved was a Bentley, which is a little unusual, and
- An FBI agent commented helpfully that “We feel, at this point, this might be just something that occurred.”
No word yet on whether the Bentley had a currently-valid certificate of airworthiness or not.
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Of course, I don’t have all the information that the FBI has, but it ties in with my initial hypothesis that it is what it is.
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Or, as it may happen, outright fabricates.
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Subject to the usual caveats about the nature of objective fact, I feel strongly confident in saying that there was an incident, or at least something with the appearance of being an event was reported as such.
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Sounds like maybe a drunk driver to me. The one report I just read on the BBC stated that the driver and his wife were supposed to go to the KISS concert in Toronto but they found out it was cancelled while on the way so they went to a casino instead.
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I think at this point we can write the incident off as an instance of stuff which, as is generally accepted, happens.
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I was baffled by the video, unable to ID the car as it had reminded me of both a Tesla and a Hyundai. A Bentley now makes some sense to me as I don’t know if I have ever seen a Bentley Flying Spur before. I think that might be the model, though I still can’t guess what year…
My guess about the whole story, it will turn out to be a very ‘rich person problem’, which is sometimes on the very opposite side of the spectrum of terrorist attacks, but sometimes not.
So my speculation possibly adds nothing to the story at all.
Still sad about that other story mentioned here, the pastor killed by a speeding Porsche, where only 4 years later were charges laid.
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