I have only seen one Tesla locally. The owner, a cardiologist, parked in my spot. He is quite the entitled fellow.

It amusing to go into certain shopping centers and there's usually a dozen or so Teslas parked. More often than not, the person getting in/out is either a self-important-looking white liberal type or, a situationally unaware Asian attempting to look the part.

I should go over to Davis and see how things are going over there....

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I have only seen one Tesla locally. The owner, a cardiologist, parked in my spot. He is quite the entitled fellow.

A company I worked for had reserved parking slots for senior staff (I was in this category). There were highly visible signs pointing to the visitor parking area, which always had available parking.

At least once a week, frequently more than that, I would find a visitor, usually a sales rep, parked in my reserved slot which was more convenient to the entrance than visitor parking. No problem, I would park behind them, making it impossible for the intruder to get out. They would go to the receptionist, who would track me down by phone. Seems that I was always in a meeting, so the visitor had to cool his / her heels for at least an hour before I went out to move my car. Never had the problem twice with the same person, but there was always a new fool who "didn't see the sign."

Good idea, except my office is two doors down. He has ghetto support staff so he would probably send them to my office while he locked his doors.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
Good idea, except my office is two doors down. He has ghetto support staff so he would probably send them to my office while he locked his doors.

Maybe a not so politely worded note might get him to reconsider the errors of his ways.
At least as a first step!

Remember they have cameras on those Teslas, so wear a hoodie and mask if you do anything...

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Remember they have cameras on those Teslas, so wear a hoodie and mask if you do anything...

Just a guess, these perps have no idea their criminality is being recorded. Their sources of information don't highlight lib criminality. They don't plan their actions, spur of the moment and unaware of the pitfalls. They don't discuss this stuff in advance.

It could also explain why so many of these miscreants are middle-age and older. They're more locked into their safe info sources, less likely to leave their bubbles.

This behavior is so unbecoming someone of middle age. But this explains so much of why the younger generation is such a problem.

There really seems to be something mentally wrong w/ the left. This type of behavior, afaik, hasn't manifested at all on the right despite decades of leftist dictatorial control.

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Not all youth are in the pink hat rainbow pants group...

Barron Trump fans partly fueling rise in campus Republican Club enrollments

Donald Trump’s re-election and his hunky son’s enrollment at NYU are fueling college Republican Club membership, sources tell The Post.

Students are proudly wearing their MAGA hats on campus, membership numbers have doubled and in New York, the club is fielding many enquiries about Barron Trump, a freshman at the Stern School of Business this year.

“Interest was piqued initially by the fact that Barron Trump had matriculated as a student at our business school, but the election motivated a lot of people to act,” said Kaya Walker, president of NYU’s College Republican Club.

It’s more curiosity than anything. People would come up to us and ask us, ‘Oh, is Baron in the club?'”

Walker says the president-elect’s son has become something of a spectacle on campus, adding: “I feel bad for him more than anything. He’s kind of watched like a zoo animal. He’s kind of hard to miss. He’s very tall.

Despite the enquiries, Walker points out: “He’s not a member, but we’d love to have him.”

Regardless, membership in the club has soared, according to Walker, who is a senior studying French. She has been a member of the school’s College Republicans chapter since her freshman year and over the course of her time at NYU, attendance at weekly meetings has grown from about five to 40.

“This election made a lot of people more optimistic about the future of conservatism in general, I think, although [our] presence on a liberal academic campus like NYU is still generally looked down upon,” she said.

Other chapters around the country tell The Post their engagement has as much as doubled this semester, following the decisive Republican win.

“The amount of people who are willing to go out there and support President Trump and to be vocal about being a conservative in general is so much higher,” vice president of Penn State College Republicans Tristin Kilgore told The Post.

So far this school year, his club’s enrollment has doubled and it now has 200 active members.

Kilgore, a sophomore studying philosophy, says part of Trump’s sudden surge in popularity with current college students is their experience during the pandemic.

“We were in high school, and it was a really tough time,” said Kilgore, 20. “We’re not supporting the people who were in favor of keeping us away from our friends and away from our schools and setting us back in life.”

Alexander Richmond, president of the University of Michigan’s chapter, also says his numbers are up by about a third.

“On college campuses, people are rejecting the status quo of what we would normally think is the [left-wing] culture and bias on campus,” Richmond, a 19-year-old political science major, told The Post.

While he says conservative freshmen historically hid in the shadows, his club is drawing record-breaking numbers of first-year students: “We have a lot of new kinds of people that have been empowered to show up.”

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People that vandalize a car just because the manufacturing company is run by someone that don't like is plan retarded.

*tesla owner here*

So have the talks attacks waned? I haven’t seen any new instances.

Tony.

A lot of such behavior is fad/follow the crowd crap.

Mindless NPC/lemmings.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:

Good idea, except my office is two doors down. He has ghetto support staff so he would probably send them to my office while he locked his doors.

Send Guido and Angelo to deliver your message.

Yeah they have those types here. It is called the Dixie Mafia. Back in the day Carlos Marcello ran the rackets here. If you want an interesting read pick up Mississippi Mud.

A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog.

Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, a fiscal policy analyst for the State of Minnesota, was captured on vehicle surveillance footage allegedly dragging a key across the exteriors of several Teslas, stripping paint and causing thousands of dollars in damage.

Authorities reportedly arrested Adams on suspicion of causing an estimated $20,000 in damage, with formal charges still pending, according to the Minnesota-based crime watch account @CrimeWatchMpls on X.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...ilmed-keying-ev.html



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A member of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's administration has been repeatedly caught on camera allegedly vandalizing parked Tesla vehicles with his keys while out walking his dog.

Dylan Bryan Adams, 33, a fiscal policy analyst for the State of Minnesota, was captured on vehicle surveillance footage allegedly dragging a key across the exteriors of several Teslas, stripping paint and causing thousands of dollars in damage.

Authorities reportedly arrested Adams on suspicion of causing an estimated $20,000 in damage, with formal charges still pending, according to the Minnesota-based crime watch account @CrimeWatchMpls on X.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...ilmed-keying-ev.html



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Is it not common knowledge that these cars are bristling with cameras to catch such things specifically?

Time to bring the big hammer down on these fucking assholes.

Student, 19, who 'fire-bombed Tesla dealership' faces 20 YEARS jail as Trump cracks down on domestic terror

By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 18:43 EDT, 18 April 2025 | UPDATED: 19:44 EDT, 18 April 2025

A 19-year-old from Missouri faces 20 years in prison after being charged in connection with the firebombing of a Tesla dealership in Kansas City.

Owen McIntire is accused of attacking the dealership on March 17, where prosecutors alleged that he destroyed two Tesla Cybertrucks.

The incident was part of a wave of arson attacks on Tesla dealerships that came in retaliation for the car manufacturer's CEO Elon Musk's deep ties to the Trump administration.

Trump's Attorney General Pam Bondi vowed to crack down on the attacks in response, saying in a blistering statement last month that any 'domestic terrorists' who attack Tesla shops 'will be put behind bars.'

FBI Director Kash Patel thanked Bondi as he announced the charges against McIntire on Friday on Musk's social media platform X, celebrating the second Tesla-related arrest in a week.

'Our FBI teams continue our aggressive work to crack down on domestic terrorism cases like this one,' Patel posted. 'Pam Bondi has given us the support to pursue these cases, and we are acting accordingly.'

McIntire is reportedly a college student in Boston, but was home in Kansas City for spring break at the time of the attack.

He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in prison on charges of one count of unlawful possession of an unregistered destructive device and one count of malicious damage by fire of any property used in interstate commerce.

When the Kansas City Tesla dealership was firebombed, police said several Cybertrucks were set on fire at around 11:15pm.

Investigators recovered a Molotov cocktail that failed to detonate at the scene, and believe another was used to damage the trucks.

Cops said the fire started at one vehicle spreading through the parking lot, also damaging two charging stations.

McIntire made his first court appearance Friday, where it was not immediately clear whether he entered a plea. As he was arrested, the Department of Justice released an image of the suspect walking through Kansas City International Airport.

In a statement following McIntire's arrest, Bondi doubled down on her vow to find and prosecute anyone who attacked one of Musk's businesses in recent months.

'Let me be extremely clear to anyone who still wants to firebomb a Tesla property: you will not evade us,' Bondi said.

'You will be arrested. You will be prosecuted. You will spend decades behind bars. It is not worth it.'

Patel lauded it as the latest in several arrests related to attacks on Musk's businesses, including the arrest of alleged communist Paul Hyon Kim, 36, last month, after he allegedly set dozens of Cybertrucks ablaze in Las Vegas.

It came days after lipstick-wearing suspect Jamison Wagner, 40, was arrested in New Mexico in connection with a string of attacks on both Tesla vehicles and also GOP headquarters.

Wagner torched cars at the Tesla Albuquerque Showroom and set a doorway alight at the Republican Party of New Mexico offices, prosecutors said.

He used homemade napalm devices topped with distinctive lids which were later recovered following a search of his home, court documents stated.

Wagner is also accused of daubing the showroom and six vehicles in swastika symbols and graffiti, which read 'Die Elon,' 'Tesla Nazi Inc,' and 'Die Tesla Nazi' among others phrases.

Wagner was arrested after he left a trail of clues behind at the scene which matched objects seized during a raid on his home, according to to prosecutors

These included remnants of homemade incendiary devices, graffiti spray paint and a stencil bearing the phrase 'ICE = KKK', the same words which had been emblazoned on the Republican party offices.

Investigators noted that several glass jars used for the improvised napalm materials found at the crime scenes contained a hand hand-written capital 'I' or 'H' letter their lids. They stated that similar lids and jars were found at Wagner's home.

The arrests come as anti-Elon Musk protests erupted across the US in demonstrations against his DOGE arm of the Trump administration making huge cuts to workforces and entire agencies.

Last month dozens of fired-up crowds assembled outside Tesla stores across the country to protest against Musk's efforts to slash government spending and enact reforms.

Demonstrations also erupted in London, Portugal, Malaysia and Iceland.

Roughly 250 activists were gathered outside a showroom in New York City, holding anti-Musk placards that read 'Block Fascism Now and 'Musk Must Go' as they shouted 'Elon Musk is not elected! Democracy must be protected!'

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Investigators recovered a Molotov cocktail that failed to detonate at the scene

Huh? I thought one simply lit the gasoline-soaked wick and threw it. "Detonate"??

Or have these somehow become high-tech?

I think the word is out now about Teslas having external cameras, but the first swath of vandalism happened before this was fully understood and it's just taken a little time to catch the perps and charge them.

I would expect it to slow down or stop now that these idiots are facing prison. But that assume rational thinking so perhaps there will always be some amount of it.