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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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[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

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

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 5 days ago

30 cybertrucks, one owner? Fucking spiders georg here

[-] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 6 days 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.

[-] 555_1@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

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

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Nice custom paint job

[-] Oaksey@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[-] 555_1@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days 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

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago
[-] FoolishSage@lemmy.world 235 points 1 week ago

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"

[-] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I got curious and tried it. What does this mean?

[-] chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 1 week ago

Well when two cybertrucks love each other very much...

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[-] nul42@lemmy.ca 98 points 1 week ago

I mistook the trucks for dumpsters.

[-] bambam@piefed.social 6 points 6 days ago

With this visual improvement to a cybertruck, I may be coaxed into buying one.

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 5 days ago

What have dumpsters done to you..?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Ah, Cyberdumpsters, please. Branding, and that.

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[-] protist@mander.xyz 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.online 38 points 1 week ago

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

As before when they were merely potential piles of rust.

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 36 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week 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 points 1 week 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.

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[-] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 64 points 1 week ago

Some say vandalized, others say upgraded.

[-] jas0n@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

I say insurance fraud. They were never leaving the lot.

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[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 56 points 1 week 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.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

A devilishly devious plan sir.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

you're a wily one

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days 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 points 5 days 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.)

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Truly a truck for the do-it-yourselfer!

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago

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

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days 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.

[-] vodka@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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')?

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think you were downboted for "hard slap", when obviously it should just at most be a soft slap.

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[-] cadekat@pawb.social 34 points 1 week 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.

[-] pageflight@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Thankfully electrek.co has the uncensored version.

defaced trucks

[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Made them look better IMO. Probably raised the value of it too.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week 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.

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[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 week ago

so proud of my boy

[-] Crampon@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week 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.

[-] Bertuccio@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

It's censeless.

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[-] baggins@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

Man I think he went that way 👉

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 17 points 1 week ago

Oh no, just missed him, now he's over 👈 thataway!

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