Aren’t these atrocities full of nice lithium batteries? If so, confiscated cars can be scraped for parts with the batteries going to hospitals, schools, the ACAB offices and fire departments to be used as backup electricity.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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I'm surprised nobody has stolen the rims or the batteries, or even tried to steal the catalytic converter.
What catalytic converter? They're electric.
The metal body panels that have just been haphazardly hung onto the frame on the other hand...
Hence "tried".
Haha, nice one. Now I'm just imagining some methhead cutting into random parts of one of these things trying to find the nonexistent catalytic converter.
You sly fox
ACAB offices? Never knew they had offices?
Tow them and fine them. Simple as that.
Towing them without putting them in tow mode will total them.
Sounds like the vehicle owners' problem. "Unauthorized vehicles will be towed at the owners expense."
Even better.
These ugly things need to be in "tow mode"?
I was going to say what a stupid idea, but that's just the tip of the stupid ice berg.
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.. What does that mean?
Every one of these that gets towed unexpectedly is totalled?
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Tow trucks have never cared about wrecking their cargo before. Why should they care for Cybertrucks?
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The property owners should seize them for unpaid storage fee's. That has happened in my state. Putting your property on someone elses property is considered a tacit admission of a debt when it comes to storage. Ironically there is another law that states you can't charge for more than six months storage without a signed agreement. However there is nothing regulating how much that fee is. Case in point a person failed to pick up late model car at a towing company for two years. The towing company gave the owner a huge bill and they went to court to get it reduced to six months. The towing company just resubmitted a bill for six months at a increased rate that equaled the amount of the original bill. By the time the asshole who should have come and got their car sooner got through the bill had went up again. It was quite entertaining. to watch.
Everywhere you look in Illinois you'll see variations of "unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owners expense." So I don't know what those guys' problem is; impound them.
Here's a lot I pass by every day.
Just set them on fire.
This was my first thought. But the top comment talking about the batteries and what not going to hospitals and emergency centers made me feel different, hopeful even. Like, a feeling of organized chaotic good anarchy. Why burn the cars completely, when we can resources the useful parts, and then burn the left over scraps of the worthless useless billionaire? I mean... car.
Oh I mean I totally agree, the "burn them" was just a reflex. I agree that scavenging them for parts would be magnitudes more beneficial to everyone.
Scavenge then burn.
Think of the environment. Scavenge them, fill them with waste after as they are dumpsters anyway. Let Tesla deal with the disposal, will cost them loads of money, running them further towards bankruptcy.
Together with the billionaires.
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They're just so damn ugly. One pulled up next to me at a light the other day and it looked like a cockroach skittered into my side vision.
I'm honestly impressed by how many I see. It's probably just such an eyesore that I notice every one the enters my fov without fail. I always give those death machine a wide berth, as not only is the vehicle itself deadly, I don't trust the drivers in the slightest.
The city should just confiscate all of them. I mean, at this point they are abandoned on city property.
And send Tesla the bill for recycling cost
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few cans of gasoline and some matches could go a long way to help solving this problem
definitely would rather see people ~~stealing~~ recycling the batteries
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That's what they're hoping for. If they all caught fire Tesla could put in an insurance claim and get their money back.
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Fucking tow em.
And charge them fees. Just like they'd do to any individual. The city could make some real bank.
Ah, they're parked on private property, which means the property owner needs to have them towed. Which means the city has to notify the property owner (they have) ahead of the city doing the tow order. That it's a derelict shopping mall means that the property owner likely doesn't care. There's also the complication of the city not wanting to piss off a commercial property owner.
But yeah, the end result should be towing, with daily storage fees racking up until Tesla comes and pays up. Tow lots don't fuck around.
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God the environmental damage caused by making all these batteries, only to be used in a cyber truck and dumped in a car park.
Remember when Elon was pretending to be saving the environment, well now he isn't.
Batteries can be recycled, reused or repurposed. It’s nowhere near as damaging as drilling for/refining/shipping/burning oil and we decided we are perfectly okay with that.
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Elon was always about making money. The marketing department was all about saving things.
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Monstertruck v. Cybertruck: Dawn of Justice
Same thing is happening in Europe with Chinese EVs. Chinese EVs are piling up at European ports because they've gone unsold and the carmakers were way too optimistic or it's some sort of book keeping trickery to rack up the sales figures.
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Did he park them in a lot away from cameras, hoping there would be some "demonstrations" that would then allow him to claim insurance money? Does the policy cover "domestic terrorism"?
Did you know the Cybertruck was designed to mimic a Porsche? Specifically, this one.
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