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Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Problem with setting Teslas on fire is we can't know if it's an act of protest or if they just did that on their own.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago

The incident in Kansas City genuinely does sound like one just caught itself on fire.

In Kansas City, Police Captain Jacob Becchina said in a statement that an officer first observed smoke coming from a Cybertruck parked in a Tesla parking lot. “The officer used his fire extinguisher, however, KCFD was still needed as he could not put the fire out,” Becchina said. “The fire spread to a second Cybertruck parked next to the original burning one. The circumstances are under investigation, but preliminarily, the fire is being investigated for the potential of being an Arson.”

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Could be insurance fraud too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Probably a lot of the time it is. Nows a great time to do it if you're gonna.

Saw a post earlier where a guy was 42,000$ underwater on his and wanted to offload it at that big of a loss before his insurance dropped it entirely.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 36 minutes ago (2 children)

*$42,000. You saved no time in typing it wrong and look stupid. Congratulations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

you may be right but holy shit who cares lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 26 minutes ago

Nah, 42,000$ is more natural and consistent with other units.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

Exactly 🤣🔥

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

I was JUST about to say; how do we know they didn't just do that? or that this wasn't a buggy firmware update that just did that? or a malicious firmware update that did this?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

They've become sentient, and are committing suicide.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

This made me laugh out loud at my desk. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago

LoL 😂