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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That’s hardly a vandal. More like a freedom fighter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

If it breaks in a car wash and takes 5 hours to reboot, that’s pretty exotic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

30 cybertrucks, one owner? Fucking spiders georg here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Nice custom paint job

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Well at least they are partially painted now which should help with the rust.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Wow! Find out more by Googling "Elon Musk Florida Rule 34"!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Truly a truck for the do-it-yourselfer!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

you're a wily one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A devilishly devious plan sir.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Beautiful 🥹

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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

Thankfully electrek.co has the uncensored version.

defaced trucks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I ignored the colon the first run through and I was trying to understand if the police hnd a vandals unit that went around fucking shit up. It kinda seems plausible. Then I reread it and noticed the colon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Made your daddy proud... Proud...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

so proud of my boy

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