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Conspiracy theorists all over the world are trying to find significance in today's story of a nutjob who finally went off the deep end by burning his house and then crashing his plane into an Austin, Texas, building.

Apparently this guy was mad at the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service has offices in the Echelon building, including its civil enforcement and criminal investigations divisions, said Special Agent Michael Lemoine, a spokesman for the criminal investigations division.

He said that some IRS offices are on the first floor, which Lemoine said was hit by the plane.

William Winnie, an Internal Revenue Service agent, said he was in a training session on the third floor of the building when he saw a light-colored, single-engine plane coming at the building.

“It looked like it was coming right in my window,” Winnie said. He said the plane veered down and to the left and crashed into the floors below. “I didn’t lose my footing, but it was enough to knock people who were sitting to the floor.”

The wackadoodle posted an anti-IRS screed just before taking matters into his own hands.

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