Plus if the person listed on the quitclaim deed didn’t know about it or know the person, it’s likely they didn’t sign it, which means it’s invalid
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I don’t know anything about how these things work but this article in the Tennessean says that’s not the case:
Property records show on the day before Thanksgiving, Warner transferred the title of his longtime Bakertown Road home to a Los Angeles woman. The transaction, a quitclaim deed that did not require the woman’s signature, was made for $0.
It also says that he had no presence of any kind on social media, which sounds unusual for a tech worker. It also explains why the article is filling in the “who was this guy, anyway?” part of the article with irrelevant trivia like that time he served two years probation for drug possession in 1978 and how many dogs he owned.
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That’s weird. I lived in Nashville for over a decade, and was involved with quitclaim deeds four times, three times on a car, one time on a house. Every one of those required a signature from both parties to be a legal contract, even when it was just transferring an old car to my father or the like. But i wasn’t there in 2019 , we left in 2016 for better more sane climes. Things may have changed by then
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Could be the article is wrong. But the guy seems to have been planning this for some time so it seems likely that he had done enough research to know whether this kind of title transfer would be legally valid.
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Totally true. And honestly I don’t know why I’m enraptured by this. We left Tennessee because we saw the shit people were doing and saying and considered it a health risk to stay there as a gay couple. We kind of predicted Trump was going to win, and we needed to GTFO.
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People doing stuff like what this guy did, or quitclaim/sovcity type things, or threats and the like… this story doesn’t surprise me. Tennessee is full of people just like this guy.
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The oddest thing about the situation to me is that he apparently didn’t share any kind of political manifesto, or if he did it hasn’t been made public yet. Not so much as a disgruntled tweet or a letter to the editor. Maybe he decided to go old school and dropped a few letters to the editor in a mailbox right before detonating himself.
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This feels like some pretty thin probable cause for arresting a truck driver if they were just playing 1960s pop hits.
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Is that a bomb disposal robot near the truck? Did they blow it up to be sure?
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Either that or the guy got pulled over next to the Lars Moisture Farm.
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Or maybe the robot was the source of the song “Downtown”
(Anyone else remember that scene from Short Circuit? Just me?)
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Short Circuit 2. IIRC Johnny 5 wasn’t the one broadcasting the tune though.
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Correct on both counts.
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She’s ostensibly pretty. I wonder if this was a final suicidal pledge of “love”?
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there was never a motive established for the country music massacre either
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There wasn’t one established but a lot of investigations found he was pretty much a right wing gun nut angry at the government for some reasons. I know daily kos is sometimes questionable, but much of the followup verification work I did at the time seemed to show good reporting. Might be different now, don’t remember too much of it.
Also don’t know why it was supressed to the level it was, but iirc the FBI said it was right wing domestic terrorism.
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This scenario is straight out of a Military Science-Fiction book I read except it was a cruise missile that flew into a luxury car manufacturing plant and said: “I am a 5 minute bomb” and started the countdown. The countdown and message were recorded in 3 different languages by three different women IIRC. They repeated the attack on a Earth Administration office building. Anyone remember which book this was?
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No but John Varley did write a great short story called Bagatelle, about a depressed man who has himself cyborged into the body of a nuclear bomb. He is deployed in a main street where he announces how long it will be until he explodes. He also tells anybody who will listen that he is rated at 5 kilotons, and proud of it too.
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I think the first Culture book by Ian M Banks has the destruction of an orbital ring. The Culture didn’t want the Idirans to use the orbital as a strategic resource. They actively help to evacuate the orbital, and then totally destroy it. Pretty much snap it out of existence in pieces.
The Culture ship that did it broadcasted a warning and count down
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Very good link. I wasn’t aware that the terrorist had been so open and forward with his beliefs and that there were witnesses able to describe his motive in such detail.
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Other new sources are now reporting that this guy’s dad previously worked in the building, so maybe non-conspiracy personal grudge? Also that he gave his house away prior to this, so definitely had no plans of surviving this.
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