A federal IT staffer filed a complaint about DOGE, then went public. Shortly after Elon Musk boosted a post calling his claims false, his brake lines were cut. Now he’s suing for defamation.

  • solidheron@sh.itjust.works
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    59 minutes ago

    You’d think someone would recognize their brakes were tampered with when they press it to start a car or get out of the driveway

  • Hasherm0n@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Buried a little in the article, this was a bit more than just “… breaks cut”

    and had the car seen by a mechanic who, according to the report, found “that the driver-side front impact/airbag sensor had also been removed but noted that the remaining wires had been spliced together, completing the circuit in a manner that prevented the vehicle from detecting or logging the missing component, while also preventing the vehicle from activating its safety protocols, alerting the driver, or engaging limp mode.” The police report also indicates that fingerprints had been found on Berulis’ car. According to the police report, the case is now “inactive,” “due to the lack of any specific suspect information,” though the police’s intelligence unit was notified.

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    8 hours ago

    Glad I ride a bike, if you cut the brake lines you would make a mess that is kinda obvious with the brake fluid going everywhere. Plus I would notice the brakes don’t work before even getting on it.

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      6 hours ago

      Yeah, you’ll definitely be safer if you ever, uh, work for the government file a whistleblower complaint. Another point to bikes!

      Jokes aside, it’d be way easier to kill you on a bike and they could make it look like an accident. Plus it’s not like those are the only 2 options.

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        You don’t even need to make it look like an accident. You can murder a cyclist by hitting them with your car and get just like six months in prison.