I have seen a lot of tesla vandalism online the last few days and I’m kind of on the fence about it.
I’ve seen several examples locally here in BC, Canada.
I think totally warranted at newly purchased teslas going forward. Also it serves as a deterrent for potential future buyers.
But vandalizing a car that is a few years old I think is lame. Those driversare already being punished enough by driving something around that’s worth less than scrap.
It scratches the paint. Even after washing your vandalism would be on the car.
Paint?
Most Tesla cars are covered in colorful paint. Is this a surprise to you?
The cars at least could be hand waved that they could have been before Musk went maskoff, but the Cybertrucks, like the one pictured are from well after that and what I think we’re all talking about. Cybertruck owners are making a very different political statement compared to the early car owners.
OP does show a picture of cybertruck, but then mentions the cars. I completely agree cybertruck owners bought with full mask-off musk.
If you want to get really technical, in this case your grubby fingers would make it prone to rust.
So because they didn’t bother with painting it it’s my fault it rusts when I touch it.
I don’t buy your arguments that tracing words in the dust on a car is vandalism/defacing.
Defacing is something permanent tracing words in dust is not permanent.
Legally, it isn’t. People get arrested for sidewalk chalk art all the time. They often get dismissed because it’s a bullshit law, but it’s still a law.
On that note it’s interesting to see the stats on how many that have been arrested and tried for writing “wash me” in the dust.
Why would you touch someone elses property?