A clever car burglar broke into a vacant Cybertruck by popping one of the windows ajar and then peeling it wide open.

“No Alarm, No Notifications to my phone… literally nothing happened just found it like this…” wrote Cybertruck owner Anuj Thakker, who shared the upsetting news on Facebook a few days ago.

    • ZJBlank@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      3 months ago

      Not necessarily true, most alarms only go off when a door is opened. If they break a window to open the door from the inside the alarm will sound, but if they break the window and leave the door shut: silence.

      Source: multiple cars broken into this way outside my apartment building, not one alarm went off

      • Ghoelian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I thought those alarms were mainly triggered by movement? Every time I’ve been on a ferry with a car they tell everyone to turn their alarms off for that reason.

        • ZJBlank@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          3 months ago

          From what I’ve read, some cars do have movement/shock sensors, but they can be defeated by breaking the window in such a way as to cause minimal vibration to the vehicle, like a spring-loaded glass breaker. The guy who broke into my neighbour’s car took a metal rod or something, stuck it down between the glass and the dew wiper, and pulled back, putting pressure on the bit of tempered glass inside the door and causing it to shatter.