Four Tesla Cybertrucks burned overnight in a lot near 4th Avenue and Spokane Street in Seattle. The lot serves as a temporary storage space for Teslas arriving from overseas before they are sent to dealerships.
This incident comes after a series of attacks on Tesla vehicles and facilities across the country since the Trump inauguration. Elon Musk, an early investor, board member, and current CEO of Tesla, has taken a role in the Trump administration.
These attacks have ranged from graffiti and vandalism at dealerships to arson and reports of gunfire at Tesla locations, including a recent incident in Portland.
While covering the story for Seattle’s Morning News, a man approached KIRO Newsradio’s Luke Duecy and pulled out what appeared to be a knife.
“He decided to come up to me right before I came on air and tried to get me to leave, essentially. And then I told him “No.” And that’s when I saw this person reach in the back behind like a belt or something and pull something metallic out underneath, and I went “oh,” and there were unfortunately a lot of bad language between the two of us.
“That was a scary moment as well. But you know, obviously someone does not want us to be here and to show these vehicles, but that’s in fact what we’re doing.”
#John F. Kennedy:
#‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.’
Damn. Talk about feeling that to the core
Just wait until Easter Day when the report is due from the DoD and HSA on whether to declare Martial Law.
Definitely shouldn’t harass the reporters covering this. We want people to see this damage. We want people to know that there are others just as angry as they are, and that they’re not alone in their fury.
Sure. But if reporters come across the angry people in action they should walk away, not expose anyone, and just cover the result.
I think the person was probably not trying to be filmed in the act.
From a previous post about this, this still cracks me up. Devil child, devil child! Watch the green fire buuuurn.
This is from Komo in Seattle which is owned by Sinclair. They’re a christian nationalist operation.
This is glorious! Thank you for the link!
… Spokane Street in Seattle. The lot serves as a temporary storage space for Teslas arriving from overseas before they are sent to dealerships.
I’m not surprised, but I kinda thought these were supposed to be “Made In America”. Is Tesla subject to these Tariffs like everything else?
“made in america” tends to mean “we imported a bunch of the components and did the final assembly in the US”
I went “oh,” and there were unfortunately a lot of bad language between the two of us.
SO unfortunate! Note that he didn’t call any other part of the incident unfortunate, only the “bad” language 🤦😄
More pics I found online:
Could be arson, could be… https://fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-the-cybertruck-is-more-explosive-than-the-ford-pinto/
“Breaking” indeed
Upvoting this story would likely get you banned on Reddit.
To be fair, this happened in an area where knife incidents don’t usually involve a Tesla dealership.
I’m all for fighting back, but are we just giving him insurance money and taking out cars that he now doesn’t have to try to sell. I’d rather see them rusting at the car lot, selling for $15k because they’re stuck with so much inventory.
This is unambiguously a good thing. All of this is negative press is affecting reputation. People torching cars and chargers keeps the bad press in the news. Protest is supposed to be disruptive.
In the grand scheme of things the money from the sale of the cars is relatively insignificant to his wealth.
The stock price dropping hurts him a lot more, and “people don’t want to buy the cars” is better for the price than “people actively hate the company”.He’s also going to have an increasingly difficult time getting the insurance to pay the sales price of the car when it won’t sell.
He’s also going to have an increasingly difficult time getting the insurance to pay the sales price of the car when it won’t sell.
He’s also going to have much more expensive insurance premiums when the insurer catches on that Cybertrucks are statistically so much more likely to be damaged by vandalism.
Exactly, if you really want to stick it to him then don’t torch his product, torch him instead
They look better as a cinder.
