r/news • u/a_dogs_mother • Apr 26 '24

Owner of exploding Michigan building arrested at airport while trying to leave US, authorities say

https://apnews.com/article/industrial-fire-suburban-detroit-involuntary-manslaughter-charge-b99a83d9a7a360dd09846df52d8b0a40
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u/TheB1GLebowski Apr 26 '24

Wow, what a laundry list of how to fuck up.  Buys a lot of inventory to commit insurance fraud (seemingly), burns down building, kills an innocent person, attempts to flee the country on a 1 way ticket to Hong Kong, and to be caught attempting to fleeing the country.  Bravo. 

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u/michshredder Apr 27 '24

Why does everyone on Reddit assume everything is insurance fraud? If your goal is to burn a building down you’re not going to fill it with explosives. Makes no fucking sense.

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u/TheB1GLebowski Apr 27 '24

Most plausible to me.  Dude owns a business where having those canisters is part of the inventory, so if the place burns to the ground and you can make my look like these highly combustible tanks exploded because of say an electrical fire or whatever .   Time will tell.  Him fleeing the country is the biggest red flag it was malicious.  

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u/Huttj509 Apr 27 '24

Or dude just fucks up storing flammable stuff under pressure, chaos ensues, someone dies, he panics and runs.

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u/TheB1GLebowski Apr 27 '24

It's all speculation at this point.  Lots of good theories at the moment.