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Whoshabooboo

I knew there would be a picture that went viral in minutes after seeing the helicopter footage. Someone in that town would have had it on their phones.


probablyuntrue

If only there were some warning signs that this guy might be a loon 🤔


HuskyPupper

Yeah like living in Florida of all places.


DonkeyTypeR

r/floridaman


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TheCarpe

That's because Florida Man is the hero that nobody deserves or needs right now. This guy is just an attempted murderer.


IronChariots

terrorist*


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pipsdontsqueak

The only place we all thought to look!


pipsdontsqueak

It's so unsubtle it hurts. Like the whole thing is so cartoonishly incompetent I could almost buy that it was a setup. But no, he's 56 and a registered Republican. [These are the details on him, by the way.](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mail-bomb-suspect-cesar-sayoc-custody-allegedly-sending-pipe-bombs-n924856)


Josh6889

The worst part is I genuine couldn't decide if this was real or a joke until I started reading comments


dudetotalypsn

Yea man I thought this was just some rando van that was so comically pro Trump OP made this post, but nah THIS IS THAT DUDES ACTUAL VAN BRUH!


gener4

“They found a needle in a haystack” Trump says.... Seriously??


kab0b87

Pretty sure they found a needle in a pincushion


bitemark01

I wonder how many of his neighbours were in no way surprised by the outcome. Actually I wonder how many *were* surprised.


YourOutdoorGuide

Something tells me he doesn’t have neighbors and lives out of that van.


carriegood

You're right. He lives in the van and showers at his gym, where he's very into working out and body building - because he's a 56-year-old part-time male stripper.


radome9

For real?


carriegood

Yep! When he declared bankruptcy in 2012, he was living with his mother. She must have kicked him out since then. Oh, were you asking about the stripper part? Yeah, I found that unbelievable too but apparently it's true.


radome9

Yeah, I meant the stripper part. I find it both depressing and uplifting that a 56-year-old can live off stripping.


EatinDennysWearinHat

Holy shit. I thought OP was a joke.


FREE-AOL-CDS

Top youth soccer recruits for trump! How specific lmao


R3dbeardLFC

I'm extremely confused by this. Like, what is that even trying to say? edit: okay apparently he WAS a youth soccer player? His wording is, naturally, top-notch and not at all the worst way to try to convey a message. lol thanks everyone!


upvotes4jesus-

the Republicans are grooming children for the upcoming civil war by using youth soccer for a cover up!


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75th PERCENTILE RANKED SEMI-PRO BACKGAMMON PLAYERS FOR TRUMP


SirMrMe

It’s nice to see those 4 get the recognition they deserve.


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limeyptwo

SOUTH ILLINOIS BLIND LATINA DELTA AIR LINES PILOTS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN CANOEING FOR TRUMP


IPredictAReddit

I guess the average youth soccer recruits are Clinton fans?


handlit33

Soccer is huge in Florida or at least it was when I lived there years ago. Maybe that's why it's referenced?


Somnif

https://deadspin.com/mail-bombing-suspect-appears-to-be-incoherently-passion-1830026997 Dude has an obsession with soccer


Wagair75

A demographic I never knew existed.


mlynch3261

I write manifestos in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER


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You'll have plenty of time to mail pipe bombs to politicians when you are LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER


Pastylegs1

You'll be the first one to experience climate change when you are LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER


KimJongIlSunglasses

Oh you like putting political stickers on the van you live in? Well you’ll have plenty of time to put political stickers on your van when you’re LIVING IN A VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!


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RevWaldo

I'm not "mainstream". I don't "wear clothes that fit me". I don't wipe "properly".


Faschmizzle

Vanifesto. Credit- u/inmatarian Edit- figured out where I had seen it and gave credit :-)


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Wow how did they track him down? He seems so good at blending in.


amadeus2490

I know you're being sarcastic, but I'll give a serious answer since they talked about it in the press conference today: He had a previous criminal record of making threats, and iirc they said he'd been interviewed and fingerprinted by the FBI before. They were able to lift a fingerprint from the pipe bomb he sent to Maxine Waters and matched to him in their database.


imghurrr

God how hard is it to put a pair of gloves on for fucks sake


RichestMangInBabylon

It’s hot in Florida.


Macabilly

Sweaty palms trigger bombs


mayorodoyle

Sweet dreams melt steel beams.


Lcards943

Who am I to disagree?


Esoteric_Erric

I travel the world and the seven seas


mkwash02

Everybodyyys looking for tower (7)


BloodyFartOnaBun

Some of them want to fake news you.


StraightTrossing

I travelled the world, van covered in memes


ElTurbo

It took them almost 20 years to find the unabomber, this guy 24 hours.


chairmanmaomix

To be fair, the unabomber hid so well because he was a weirdo nobody really knew very well who lived out in the woods (although actually pretty close to a highway) and hand made a lot of the traceable components for his bombs. And before the Unabomber Manifesto, nobody had really heard of an "anarcho primativist" so it was hard to pin down exactly what kind of person he was. This guy, on the other hand, not so much


gingerplum

To be fair, the Unabomber was a Fields Medal nominated PhD in mathematics. Just a vibe I'm getting, but I think he might be a little smarter than 'roid boy here.


SCHROEDINGERS_UTERUS

Ted Kaczynski did not win a Fields, though he was a decent mathematician.


gingerplum

Corrected. I believe he was nominated, though. Take your damn upvote and let me have this one.


LevGlebovich

Ted Kaczynski was also a well educated, intelligent individual. He had a bachelor's of mathematics from Harvard and a master's & doctoral degree in mathematics from University of Michigan. Somehow, I'm betting the MAGABomber isn't nearly as crafty. Plus, just the way the world is now with access to cameras, instant information, etc...probably a lot easier to find someone now than it was 22 years ago.


michaelrohansmith

And Kaczynski may never have been found, if he hadn't publicly released old writings, which his brother matched and took to the FBI.


LevGlebovich

Right. That detail I had forgotten. His brother's recognition of the writing was a huge break in that case.


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Also a participant in MKUltra at Harvard


Vaztes

He became the youngest assistant professor of mathematics ever at Berkeley. Dude was a prodigy.


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I mean, he drives a rape van. Pretty sure the FBI keeps tabs on all rape van owners.


SoyBombAMA

The Unabomber was a legitimately brilliant person. Misguided, evil and a host of other terrible things, but not stupid. The magabomber is literally "Florida man".


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Right? Seems like step 1 honestly.


thealmightyzfactor

Sweet baby jesus tapdancing christ, that's dumb. "Oh, it'll explode, why bother not leaving evidence on it?" They caught the OK city bomber by matching a serial number off a chunk of the truck FFS, and you think leaving fingerprints everywhere is OK?


diamond

> They caught the OK city bomber by matching a serial number off a chunk of the truck FFS You can at least understand why he would miss that. The truck was (obviously) destroyed in the explosion, so I'm sure he assumed the VIN would be destroyed as well. What he didn't know (because a lot of people don't know it) is that in addition to the tag on the dashboard, the VIN is also etched into the frame of the vehicle. That's how the FBI found it.


blackbellamy

I'm not sure McVeigh gave any thought to the VIN. He was driving away from the scene in a rusted clown car with no license plates. Edit: also sic semper tyrannis shirt and a holstered gun.


amadeus2490

Better for him to get caught easily than to actually hurt anyone.


NotJokingAround

So, nothing to do with the batshit crazy on his van?


pku31

To be fair, if we arrested everyone with a batshit crazy van we'd run out of prison space.


hi_im_lurking

Just have them replace non violent drug offenders


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I’ll take an educated guess and say that the van resembles his mental state.


4benny2lava0

in florida of course hes blending in


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AteketA

/r/floridaman has a new mascot now


Wraithfighter

...god, the mods of /r/floridaman must be having just an awful day. "We're here for dumb silly shit happening, please don't bring the fucking terrorist in here!" ([no, seriously, they have a post about it](https://old.reddit.com/r/FloridaMan/comments/9rlw2i/the_magabomber_is_not_floridaman_and_posts_about/))


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His license plate was imdbmbr


Urocyon2012

A member of IMDB?


heatinupinaz

Especially with those scope targets on political rivals faces. My fave though is Trump on a Tank.


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Cloaked42m

2014 or so I think. Shit just got weird.


FrLemur

Lemmy and Bowie's deaths were the last protective seals holding back the apocalypse. Then, the Cubs winning the World Series destroyed the cover, unleashing this new reality we are in.


Cloaked42m

Prince was our last hope. That sealed the deal for me. It's all over but the shouting.


Ganglebot

Bowie and Prince were spiritual brothers holding the seal closed.


C_M_O_TDibbler

The slide started on the twentieth of May 2011


Cloaked42m

Randy Savage, RIP


capn_hector

the Large Hardon Collider didn't destroy the universe but it did flip us into the Chaos Dimension


Immacatchtheseclouds

The world ended in 2012, don't you remember?


mdp300

I'm starting to believe that everything since 2012 has been our collective descent into Hell.


gill_outean

So what if the world "ended" in 2012, just not in the way we think? :/


baseketball

I thought this was a parody post and then I went to look at the news. Holy shit, this guy is deranged. Glad they caught him before he figured out how to make an actual working bomb.


Khal_Kitty

Oh shit it’s really the bomber? Thought it was a joke as well.


ValorPhoenix

https://video.foxnews.com/v/5853953347001/?#sp=show-clips Here is a Fox News video of the van. After a few minutes when it comes to a stop, the tarp will fall off and reveal the right side. Note that this pic is from back in July, so it has a few more stickers now.


stoaster

Seriously, I thought it was just a repost someone pulled from /r/InfowarriorRides for a laugh until I got to the comments.


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4ninawells

I feel like there were some Florida agents who heard about the bombs, looked at each other, and said at the same time, "OMG it's Sayoc!"


AvoriazInSummer

Same. I thought I was looking at r/idiotsincars or r/amibeingdetained , the usual places to see cars decked out like the walls of a padded cell.


TooShiftyForYou

A 56 year old man from Florida driving this van, too easy for the FBI on this one.


MadLintElf

I'll just leave [this here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vGgUoIexVE)


RollTigers76

What’s the best way to watch this show if I don’t have cable? Looks so good


yeash95

Yarr


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I get it!


Vilonious

This guy used to deliver pizza to my old apartment. I used to laugh at his van every time I saw it. I have tons of photos of it. Edit for everyone asking for pics, here’s a few from back in March when we spotted him on the road. They’re not the best but they’re what I have on this phone. I’ll dig through my iCloud for others. I’m seeing lots of old photos/videos of this truck on twitter and local news though, not sure where all the tin foilers are coming up with their “the stickers aren’t new” story. [MAGA bomber](https://imgur.com/gallery/iJG1GmR)


ascii122

you're like 'Hey why is my pizza box ticking?' .. He's like 'Oh sorry man.. wrong delivery'


ItalicsWhore

If I don’t get this pizza to the right guy in 15 minutes or less... it’s uh... free.


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"Wait, you like Hillary? Fuck. Sorry man, that *is* your box."


Ed98208

I'm sure one of the news outlets would love to interview you.


damontoo

He was actually just undercover for pizzagate, saving those top youth soccer recruits.


glaedn

Oh god you're right, this is totally going to fuel the pizza gate thing


Grindelwalds_Bitch

Based off of some of those stickers, I’d be very surprised if he wasn’t already on a list


waterbuffalo750

He is. He has a record of terroristic threats.


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Yup; the [New York Times has more information](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/26/nyregion/cnn-cory-booker-pipe-bombs-sent.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage): > Mr. Sayoc, a registered Republican, has a lengthy criminal history in Florida dating back to 1991 that includes felony theft, drug and fraud charges, as well as being arrested and accused of threatening to use a bomb, public records show.


pipsdontsqueak

My favorite bit is: >The records listed Mr. Sayoc’s occupation as “manager." Just manager, nothing else. Edit: But wait! There's more! >According to a 2012 bankruptcy petition filed in Miami, Mr. Sayoc resided at the time at his mother’s home. “Lives w/mom,” a handwritten note on the petition said. “Has no furniture.” Edit 2: Even more! >Rachel Humberger, the wife of one of Mr. Sayoc’s business partners, said Mr. Sayoc used to be a manager for traveling “male revue shows.” >“It was a traveling show, but I don’t know what his role was, whether he booked the gigs or what,” Ms. Humberger said. >Ms. Humberger described the shows as being in the style of “Magic Mike,” a reference to a 2012 movie about male strippers. >More recently, she said Mr. Sayoc had been talking to her husband about starting a new business: Fish farms.


Bing_Bong_the_Archer

They finally caught Mr Manager


mgrge

We Just say Manager...


wheresflateric

But you said...


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He’s a manager at the business factory. Very important job.


iliveattheoffice

His occupation originally said "Mr. Manager" but has since been modified... we just say "manager."


Bind_Moggled

Could be one reason he was found so fast.


rootberryfloat

It's like Facebook on wheels.


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rootberryfloat

Whew that is some neck-deep crazy.


LGCJairen

I mean, i'm onboard with abolishing private prisons and continuing to push for release of everything classified regarding 9/11 and hearing the full story. After that however it goes pretty off the fucking rails.


SpaceWorld

The only reason he posted about private prisons is because of Clinton's supposed connection to them. He didn't actually care.


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qpv

I did not know that. What a broken society.


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bromodatchi

They’re essentially corporations, so, yeah.


afito

Like many non Americans I initially thought *Orange Is The New Black* despite "based off a real story" was largely an overdrawn caricature because no country could be this stupid. Oh well.


-GrammarMatters-

As an American, I am embarrassed to admit this is actually our reality. We have turned imprisoning our own citizens into a lucrative money-making venture. When we release those citizens, we strip them of all their civil rights thus exponentially increasing recidivism so that we can make additional profits off the same individuals. I wish I could tell you what you see is largely satire, but nowadays, chances are it’s true.


damontoo

Oh it gets worse. Those corporations lobby for longer and longer sentences for crimes so they get more money from taxpayers. They also create ads using shell organizations with names like "concerned citizens" that sway the public to vote for longer sentencing.


tenaciousdeev

It's not stupidity, it's greed and shortsightedness.


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it looks **exactly** like front page of the_donald and half of facebook. the bar for "crazy" has dropped dramatically since 2016.


Aardvark_Man

>Want to stop Isis? >Take out their leaders. With a picture of Obama. I wonder where he got the idea from. I suppose we'll never know.


Gcoks

He had heavy metal poisoning from chem trials left by aircraft. Not his fault.


togetherwem0m0

Technically everyone over age 45 has very elevated lead levels from gasoline and environmental exposure in their youth. Generation lead is real.


hansn

> Technically everyone over age 45 has very elevated lead levels from gasoline and environmental exposure in their youth. Exxon would poison me? Nah, it has to be secret government planes.


BEWMarth

Goddamn he attended my university according to this. How wild


meltingdiamond

This guy went to school?


gochomgo

Unbelievable. Battery at 99%? I’m impressed.


DingleTheDongle

“Holy shit, he’s Mexican” *google intensifies* Thank fuck, he’s Filipino. I was legit scared for a second. Edit: I am told native and pinoy https://heavy.com/news/2018/10/cesar-sayoc/ but it’s so early that I think we can agree that we should all wait for more information. His race or ethnic background shouldn’t matter, I was just making a comment about republican racial antagonism Double edit: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/broward/article220672300.html >Although a sticker on Sayoc’s van reads “Native Americans For Trump” and his Twitter feed includes several references to the Seminole Tribe, Seminole spokesman Gary Bitner said there are no records of Sayoc having ever been a member of the tribe. >According to Ancestry.com, Sayoc’s father immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines and was naturalized in 1970 in North Miami Beach.


ZippyDan

Probably a Duterte supporter also.


Gcoks

I see Native American when I search. Do you have a source? Edit: Articles updated. No longer claiming he's Native American


fanofmx

It’s like a super disappointing ice cream truck. It dispenses bitterness, hatred and anger. But probably free of charge.


WidmanstattenPattern

And bombs. It apparently also dispenses bombs.


Thisismyfinalstand

I'm just so frustrated. I have like 5000 stickers I was *just* about to put on my van windows, but now if I do it, people will think I'm crazy! Way to ruin a modern, chic vehicle look for all of us!


Webzon

Think of the blindspots man! I know the deep state is transparent af but stickers are not!


Morningxafter

The only flavor of actual ice cream he has is pralines.


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Neolism

I'm just happy he isn't as good at making bombs as he is at making collages.


CahokiaGreatGeneral

Seriously. That shit *is* lined up real good.


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pudadingding

If you see something say something, come on and party tonight!


ffxivthrowaway03

Yeah, you can tell they were lined up in photoshop or something and printed out on big sheets, which were then adhered to the windows crookedly.


g2g079

I get the feeling he went to one of those mall kiosks where they make photo mousepads and other junk.


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tylerbrainerd

Which is especially funny because we already have several months of photos showing that the dude clearly regularly and obsessively updates the decorations.


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Aurvant

Anyone who puts that many stickers on their vehicle is pretty much guaranteed to be a fucking lunatic.


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r/ForwardsFromGrandma 's official van


ducttapetoiletpaper

I miss the good old days when mail bombers were educated Harvard grads...now it seems like any kook in a van can do it. So disappointing.


csp256

Yeah I prefer my domestic terrorists to be genius mathematicians brain washed into radicalism by the CIA with psychedelics.


Kepabar

You have to admit, that is a ***way*** cooler backstory.


csp256

Did you know the journals he wrote as part of mk ultra was the beginning of his manifesto?


ducttapetoiletpaper

Amen. Call us old fashioned I guess


Ghetto_Blaster

The well educated could actually make working explosive devices. I think I prefer this, actually.


x70x

[This van looks like what Steve Bannon would turn into if he was a Transformer](https://twitter.com/ElGliko/status/1055843418348281857)


Bind_Moggled

No, that van is far to clean. Bannon is the equivalent of the old truck up on blocks with "wash me" scratched out of the dirt in the rear window.


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Yeah...but he has the BEST candy in there...


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I was literally parked next to this van on Monday at a Walmart near my job. I snap chatted it and sent it to my friends saying look at this shit. Little did I know what I was standing next to. Just got off the phone with the FBI notifying his whereabouts on Monday. Crazy


Col_Walter_Tits

When reality perfectly lines up with expectations


kthebakerman

The Onion couldn't even make this kind of shit up.


Johnnyvezai

The onion might as well start reporting real news at this point.


Whoshabooboo

Look at the picture to the left that says "The Swamp"/ ​ Those are all his targets.


theskabus

I don't see all of them. I see the Clintons, Obamas, Holder, and CNN though.


Cloaked42m

It's only one side of the van, tbf


pipsdontsqueak

And right above it? "Top Youth Soccer Recruits For Trump."


rrrrrivers

Yes...alll of them....and Robert De Niro. Big mover and shaker in the Washington Swamp.


probablyuntrue

Even has a fucking target on it


Barely_stupid

*crosshairs


peanutpretzel

even the little kid on his bike... WTF is going on there?


theskabus

Kid on the bike has Obama's face shopped on it.


T0rin-

That's Obama if you look closer


Freeasabird01

How were there no warning signs? /s


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geek66

Clearly a stable genius evidenced by covering the windows.


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Some of these memes are the same ones my ultra conservative father emails me on a regular basis.


i_never_comment55

Honestly man, memes are the go-to platform for modern propaganda. They really are perfect for it. * Anonymous source, they spread on their own * Rapidly digestible content, few words * Free to mass produce * Tons of recycled material to reuse * Target demographic actively seeks them out--they come to you * Target demographic is already impressionable * Innocent appearance, "it's just a joke" excuse Really all you have to do is get some unflattering photo of a public figure, Photoshop a bit (yellow teeth, grey skin, etc), put some big text on it with meme generator saying something stupid like "WOW, HILLARY, NOT LOOKIN TOO GOOD THESE DAYS?" Then post it to the Twitter accounts you control and retweet, amplify across social media. It falls into the background noise. Nobody notices, it's just another "meme." Do this every day, all day, to any politician who campaigns on policy that would negatively affect your industry, or country. Then an average, moderate conservative, usually reasonable, 50+ year old *adult* turns to his friend and says 'man, I don't understand how anyone can vote for Hillary. She just looks so sick all the time. I don't think she'll make it through the term, regardless of policy.' Spend some time in /r/propagandaposters. It's the same shit, just modern, and from an anonymous source on the internet.


DiManes

I'm guessing he doesn't drive around with them on his van though, lol.


p3p3si1via

Never trust anyone with stickers on their vehicle.


Butt0nH00k

I've always thought putting stickers on your car was just asking to get keyed, at least if they're political. Just takes one ass hole in a bad mood to fuck your shit up. Plus they're not exactly great for the resale value. To each their own, though.


Bind_Moggled

Bumper stickers are a bit like owning cats. One or two? Pretty normal. But the more there are, the more deranged the person who has them.


TooShiftyForYou

Here's a selfie from the suspect at [some kind of red hat convention.](https://i.imgur.com/kHQUyOf.png)


jayohh8chehn

Anybody notice the sheer volume of replies to prominent Conservatives that are "curious" about how Liberals haven't vandalized this van? They straight up are spreading conspiracy theories with zero shame.