Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the exotic cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale.
In an apparent vendetta against Elon Musk, a vandal, or vandals spray-painted an expletive and his name — “F— Elon” — on the ostentatious electric trucks starting at over $80,000 each.
“It was just one row and then it was a second row, and then a third row and a fourth row,” Adam Docktor, who works nearby, said.
30 cybertrucks, one owner? Fucking spiders georg here
That’s hardly a vandal. More like a freedom fighter.
TIL Cybertrucks are exotic cars…
Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the **exotic **cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale.
If it breaks in a car wash and takes 5 hours to reboot, that’s pretty exotic.
One definition of exotic is “intriguingly unusual or interesting”
I think thats a fair description of the design. Doesnt mean people have to like them, or that they are well built.
Many exotic cars have been terribly built and ive seen super cars that i think are much uglier than cybertruck… And just about every saab car ive ever seen
Well at least they are partially painted now which should help with the rust.
Nice custom paint job
The reason they stopped at 34 cybertrucks is because vandalizing any more would make it a federal crime. You can read up on this by googling “cybertruck rule 34”
I got curious and tried it. What does this mean?
Well when two cybertrucks love each other very much…
I had thought it was because only 34 cybertrucks existed in Florida
And here I was thinking it was one truck per felony for PG’s big strong political daddy.
Amateurs. You don’t spray paint them, they’ll just clean it off.
What you do, is place a stencil with “fuck Elon” on them, spray rust protective clear lacquer over the general area, and remove the stencil.
They won’t notice until the next time it rains, when the words will show up in bright rust orange, much more harder to remove than any spray paint, and much harder to trace to you.
you’re a wily one
Seems like an awful lot of work when a can of expanding foam squirted in the right places will disable most anything mechanical and is much more difficult to remove.
The point isn’t to disable them, it’s to write “fuck Elon” on them. 🤷♂️
(Plus, they’re A.— electric vehicles, so not that many mechanical bits to disable, B.— Teslas, so they already do a pretty good job of getting disabled all by themselves, and C.— cybertrucks, so they already come pretty pre-disabled by design, the poor things.)
Truly a truck for the do-it-yourselfer!
A devilishly devious plan sir.
Dylan Maxwell did it.
I mistook the trucks for dumpsters.
What have dumpsters done to you…?
With this visual improvement to a cybertruck, I may be coaxed into buying one.
Ah, Cyberdumpsters, please. Branding, and that.
…mistook?
Yes, it’s the past tense of mistake.
I think they are saying that it wasn’t a mistake. lol
I think they are saying the cybertrucks are dumpsters
Agreed, that’s what I was going for
You were right the first time
Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged.
By Friday afternoon, the graffiti had been wiped off.
Social media influencers and passersby stopped to snap photos.
Fort Lauderdale police are now investigating the case.
What a rollercoaster
The spray paint on those was about as weather resistant as a the “stainless” steel
Just for info, spray paint you buy in shops now is shit because it’s basically water based
Under no circumstances should you search online for “2K” spray paint as it’s a two part paint, almost like epoxy resin and would be almost impossible to remove from a shitty pile of junk
Also worth noting: 2K is incredibly toxic and regular paint filter masks are useless for preventing it from getting into your lungs. It’s supposed to be used while wearing positive pressure ventilated PPE.
Probably not the best choice for redecoration on the move.
If i remember correctly the old spray paint is banned in a bunch of places because of graffiti.
So I take it the trucks are now piles of rust then?
As before when they were merely potential piles of rust.
Fuck, now I have to say fuck ten time to balance out the five censored fucks in this fucking post. Fuck this fucking noise, you’re allowed to say fuck on the fucking internet for fuck’s sake. Fuck.
Thankfully electrek.co has the uncensored version.
Apart from the painting, it’s interesting that Tesla needs to rent space to store Cybertrucks! Maybe it’s not selling so hot?
Pretty normal for manufacturers dealers to rent unused lots if they don’t have enough space to store inventory. And Telsa doesn’t have dealerships with attached lots. They just have little showroom stores, and they need hubs to park inventory.
I think they have a delivery hold on it right now for some issue they have to fix, again!
Some say vandalized, others say upgraded.
I say insurance fraud. They were never leaving the lot.
Yeah they were just trying to help tesla by demonstrating the concept of painting vehicles since tesla doesn’t seem to understand it very well
Tbh the custom paint jobs I’ve seen on them usually look pretty good.
Maybe they should consider the value of painting the things by default
They just put what the driver of the cybertruck thinks about doing 24/7
Etching fluid would be a better choice, take .002-.003” off over the course of a night and no one would know until the sun hit it just right.
Might need a battery if you want to speed things up, but I think it’d work for a quick tag too.
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