Vandals targeted row after row of Tesla Cybertrucks stored in a nondescript Fort Lauderdale parking lot in an apparent vendetta against the company’s controversial CEO, Elon Musk.

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.

  • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
    75·
    5 months ago

    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

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      402·
      5 months ago

      So I take it the trucks are now piles of rust then?

      As before when they were merely potential piles of rust.

    • AItoothbrushEnglish
      382·
      5 months ago

      The spray paint on those was about as weather resistant as a the “stainless” steel

      • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee
        311·
        5 months ago

        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

        • commandar@lemmy.world
          36·
          5 months ago

          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.

        • AItoothbrushEnglish
          7·
          5 months ago

          If i remember correctly the old spray paint is banned in a bunch of places because of graffiti.

  • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
    582·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • SPRUNT@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • leftzero@lemmynsfw.com
        2·
        5 months ago

        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.)

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
    573·
    5 months ago

    Apart from the painting, it’s interesting that Tesla needs to rent space to store Cybertrucks! Maybe it’s not selling so hot?

    • vodka@lemm.ee
      21·
      5 months ago

      I think they have a delivery hold on it right now for some issue they have to fix, again!

        • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
          5·
          5 months ago

          To be fair, that’s actually more than I expected from Elon. Maybe the lawyers showed him a brightly colored graph illustrating the liability going up alongside sales.

    • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    4812·
    5 months ago

    Well if they can hold spray cans, they definitely have wrists, so I suggest the justice system give them a good hard slap if they get caught.

    Edit: I wonder- am I pissing off Cybertruck lovers or people who think this deserves a harsh punishment (or just people who have never heard the phrase ‘a slap on the wrist’)?

  • cadekat@pawb.social
    384·
    5 months ago

    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.

    • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
      31·
      5 months ago

      There are a few basic lifepaths you can pick in Cyberpunk; corpo, nomad, and street kid.

      Corpos wouldn’t be caught dead in a truck like that. It’s all about smooth lines and luxury.

      For a proper Street Kid look, that thing should be covered in Graffiti and random tags. So yes, these tagged trucks do look better in my opinion as well

      For a Nomad look, random shit needs to be soldered to the truck, battle car/mad max style. This is probably the best look for that abomination IMO.

      Lagniappe: Paint it all black and add some fake rocket launchers to the back for that Militech look.

  • Crampon@lemmy.world
    204·
    5 months ago

    I’m lost. Why is the word Fuck sensorer both on image and text? What’s going on? With the sensoring there’s no way to know what’s true and not. Maybe they wrote love Elon. No one knows.

  • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    141·
    5 months ago

    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.