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.

    • @surewhynotlem
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      310 hours ago

      It’s not defacing to clean someone’s car, even partially.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        -510 hours ago

        de·face /dəˈfās/ verb gerund or present participle: defacing spoil the surface or appearance of (something), for example by drawing or writing on it.

        I dunno this isn’t really what I wanted the thread to be about.

        • @[email protected]
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          69 hours ago

          Do you think that removing the dust spoils the appearance?

          I don’t know what you expected the thread to be about when you gave an example of “wiping dust off a car” and treated it the same as “scraping the paint off with a box cutter”. You picked an example that just begs for quibbling over severity.

          • @[email protected]OP
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            09 hours ago

            I intentionally chose an example that would lead to fence sitting. Some people’s vehicles are getting literally destroyed lol

            • @[email protected]
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              11 hour ago

              So you intentionally chose an example to produce the type of conversation you’re then complaining about?

        • @[email protected]
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          29 hours ago

          Then you should have chosen a picture where the truck is actually defaced/vandalized with spray paint or the like, not some ambiguous dust tracing, that you have to spend time insisting is defacing.