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Upset at Google for “watching him,” a 30-year old man sipped too much Kool-Aid and repeatedly attacked the company’s headquarters.
While we cannot be sure on the excessive Kool-Aid consumption, we do know that Raul Murillo Diaz has been arrested for arson, and is also investigated by authorities on two other incidents that targeted Google’s building in Mountain View, California.
According to a report from The Mercury News, the other two episodes involve firearms and a Molotov cocktail. The latter is a glass bottle with a flammable fluid inside, which bursts into flames when it hits its target. Fortunately, the car that Diaz targeted had no humans inside, but it still was damaged by the fire.
Police officers managed to link Diaz to his other attacks by monitoring security video footage (someone was watching him, after all).
They also noticed his Volkswagen SUV being present in a parking lot near Google’s building in Mountain View after the Molotov attack. The same car was spotted after viewing security footage following an attack which involved a person shooting at one of Google’s facilities.
If this was not enough to convince anyone of Diaz’s involvement, he was arrested after a traffic stop in his Volkswagen SUV near Google’s headquarters, and police found the makings of a pipe bomb, as well as a weapons case in the car. The traffic stop happened shortly after the third attack on the Google campus.
Diaz claims to have kept journals in which he wrote whenever he felt that Google was tracking him. Fortunately for everyone else, the attacker did not injure anyone with his actions, but that does not mean he will not be held accountable for his behavior.
Whenever you feel like you are being monitored by Google, government agencies, or whatever entity, just make a tin foil hat and have a sip of water. Take a deep breath, and then move on with your life.
According to a report from The Mercury News, the other two episodes involve firearms and a Molotov cocktail. The latter is a glass bottle with a flammable fluid inside, which bursts into flames when it hits its target. Fortunately, the car that Diaz targeted had no humans inside, but it still was damaged by the fire.
Police officers managed to link Diaz to his other attacks by monitoring security video footage (someone was watching him, after all).
They also noticed his Volkswagen SUV being present in a parking lot near Google’s building in Mountain View after the Molotov attack. The same car was spotted after viewing security footage following an attack which involved a person shooting at one of Google’s facilities.
If this was not enough to convince anyone of Diaz’s involvement, he was arrested after a traffic stop in his Volkswagen SUV near Google’s headquarters, and police found the makings of a pipe bomb, as well as a weapons case in the car. The traffic stop happened shortly after the third attack on the Google campus.
Diaz claims to have kept journals in which he wrote whenever he felt that Google was tracking him. Fortunately for everyone else, the attacker did not injure anyone with his actions, but that does not mean he will not be held accountable for his behavior.
Whenever you feel like you are being monitored by Google, government agencies, or whatever entity, just make a tin foil hat and have a sip of water. Take a deep breath, and then move on with your life.
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