Found in the wild in Tennessee
The best part is, the sort of person that drives a Cybertruck is absolutely not the sort of truck (“truck”) owner that keeps an inverter and power tools in the bed, because anyone with an angle grinder would have a hearty chuckle at that before driving home.
And whoever put the lock on would have an even bigger laugh when they bill you for the damages.
Unless they can’t prove you were the one who damaged it, or even that there was damage. “Well, shucks, officer, I just tried to drive away with it on and it just sort of fell off. Dunno what happened to it after that, not my problem. You should invest in better boots, or maybe train the guy who put it on better.” (Bonus points if he’s the one who put it on.) Meanwhile, you take the pieces with you, grind off any serial numbers, and drop them in the nearest large body of water whenever is convenient. Bob’s your auntie.
edit: rofl @ all the people below trying to white knight for fucking meter maids.
“leave the poor step-up-from-mall-cop-on-a-segway alone!”
This is why they also put the giant notice on the driver’s window.
“your property was no longer in my possession, and my car was no longer in your way. If you’re saying I can bolt shit to your car if you park on my property and then sue you for damage when it flies off your car, I will keep this in mind when you come to serve me the summons.”
you’ll find that many people will decide you are not worth the effort to deal with.
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what a rude thing to say to someone out of the blue, especially when I didn’t ask what your opinion was.
It’s okay, I forgive your stupidity.
I too wished we lived in a fantasy world.
if you say so, sport
Lmao Ok champ!
I think you’ll find the state doesn’t give a shit about your “logic” and can simply refuse to renew your license. The police who arrest you for driving without that license will be equally uninterested.
“I did not see it, for I am blind”
“Sorry - your registration renewal is denied for outstanding tickets.”
“Exhibit A: I looked at the truck and decided I wanted to buy it”
I’ve seen enough YouTube to know someone’s gonna find it with a magnet on a fishing pole.
hence why we grind off serial numbers. If you really wanted to be thorough, you’d cut it up into unrecognizable chunks.
This all sounds much easier than paying a ticket
That’s simply not a priority when you’re an Internet though guy!
yes, getting the angle grinder out of the back of your vehicle is easier than calling and waiting for parking enforcement to unboot you, I’m glad you agree!
FWIW I did this more than a statute of limitations ago, and seem to have gotten away with it.
doesn’t it have an inverter built in? with sockets in the tray bed area?
Depends on how new and fancy your truck is and whether you find yourself needing one. I know if you go back far enough they don’t have them, so I imagine at some point they became an option and perhaps more recently they became standard. I’ve never needed a truck myself (having a buddy with a truck is often enough for the odd job) so I’m not sure.
Does the cybertruck specifically have a 110V inverter?
Yes, you can get the “Powershare” option which will include 2 110V outlets in the cabin, 2 in the bed and 1 additional 240V outlet in the bed.
They have enough power to run an angle grinder, but that’s also about the only positive thing I can say about that car.
I can’t believe how run down it looks in OP’s picture, given how recently it was made available.
inverter: exactly. my question was intended to be rhetorical, since, well, as you pointed out.
to be fair, archonet is slightly right - a cybertruck owner wouldn’t need an (extra) inverter, since they likely already have one built-in.
I mean, my angle grinder runs on drill batteries? I’m pretty heavily invested in a cordless battery system for power tools and lawn equipment.
And that’s kind of the problem with stainless steel. My dishwasher has a stainless steel front and it looks like the inside of a shower drain 6 minutes after I wash it.
Sure, there are cordless power tools. I am not sure what you’re saying.
As for your dishwasher: I’m sure it has received surface treatment as the people designing it made the connection dishwasher ——> water in their heads, so you end up with a surface that, while proudly displaying every fingerprint, at least doesn’t immediately pick up surface rust. Or it features one of the 20 types of alloy that are more resistant to rust. That apparently didn’t happen for the Cybertruck.
In any case, what I was saying: maybe plain stainless wasn’t such a great choice for the body of a car. Maybe if you really lean into it and intentionally add to the rust / accentuate the shoddy exterior, the overall design could work as DIY’ed, end-of-the-world, Armageddon - style Mad Max vehicle. I could see that.
I guess what I was saying was it should be a moot point if there’s 110VAC available, your truck grinder should have its own power.
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Yeah I’m sure nobody would notice you angle grinding the boot off your truck and definitely not post it in this same community for the same amount of laughs
You must not be familiar with how fast a good angle grinder would make quick work of that thing. Just looking at it, I would guess 10 seconds if I was being extra generous. If I really wanted to get away with it, I’d toss on a fresh disc and ruin it as fast as I could by getting it off in record timing.
But I like yer moxie, super chief. 👈😎👈
If it’s the city that put that on, they might get you for vandalism or destruction of property, something like that. Those parking boots aren’t cheap.
https://lemy.lol/comment/10352027
they can’t prove that it didn’t just fall off when you tried driving away if they never find the pieces. You have to prove criminal liability in court, you aren’t responsible if the city uses “shitty parking boots” or “poorly trained officers”, and they can’t prove that isn’t what happened if they don’t find the cut up pieces lying by the side of the road.
in other words, the age old rule applies: only stupid criminals get caught.
Thank goodness they put the sticker on the window. It would have damaged the door.
Paint on that door looks like it’s already fucked.
lol paint
It’s not paint it’s bare stainless steel. Those are fingerprints that you’re seeing.
Do you open up the door by clawing at the outside with no handle?
Yes, if you’re following the manufacturer’s recommendation.
… Wouldn’t that be especially bad on a normal painted door’s clear coat?
The Tesla Rusty Triangle, the vehicle for your high-iron, low-poly lifestyle.
The orange tag says “FUCK YOU” with no further elaboration.
You joke, but when my parents bought an electric car, the cops in their small town started harassing them. My mom drives like a saint but they keep pulling her over and giving her tickets that aren’t valid. She said she’s caught them waiting for her to leave the grocery store so they can follow her out of the parking lot and try to catch her doing something wrong. But she doesn’t, so they just pull her over anyway. This isn’t even in a rural town where people are rolling coal. It’s just a small suburb. Why do they care?
yea that didn’t happen
Thank you, oh arbiter of truth on the internet.
Electric = Liberuls
I recently saw one in Tennessee too, and I was pretty lucky I was wearing sunglasses driving by it! It was early afternoon, with clear skies all around lol
For the record, the one I saw didn’t have a boot on it, yet
What’s going on with the top quarter of this pic?
Looks like maybe a “soft top” style roof? Convertibles and some jeep style vehicles have them.
Or maybe another damaged car, not sure.
I can’t get this pic to settle in my brain.
I know right? I am actually stumped by how I cannot place wtf that is.
I think someone is standing under the rear hatch of their car. You can see the bottom of the hatch and the rear window.
This could be it. Still breaks my brain though.
This is art. Lmao
We’re they parked over a cross walk while picking up their kids from a very expensive private school!!!???
First thing I immediately noticed was the rust
What rust? The dirt around the door jams?
Musky Bois be like “that’s not rust, it’s patina”.
I don’t see any rust? That’s just the fingerprints that you can’t not get all over it.
Those are fingerprints? Fuck is this thing made out of😭😭
Bare stainless steel, lol
Wait tgis is a real car? Wow I thought it was an art project or AI meme
Oh to be ignorant of the cyber truck. There are so many complaints about this piece of crap daily online. They lock out their owners, have body panels fall off, have very few protections against auto closing doors cutting off fingers, the accelerator pedals can get stuck at full speed while moving, they are uncoated stainless steel which corrodes, and replacement parts are insanely expensive.
I saw a YouTube short of someone claiming Tesla fixed the trunk door cutting people’s fingers off. He demonstrated with a banana at first. It detected the banana and immediately opened the door again. It barely made a dent into the banana. So he’s like imma try my finger now lol. So he tries his finger and of course that fucker clamps down hard on this mf’s finger, which gets stuck for a short while before the Tesla gives up and opens the door again. But his finger had a huge and deep dent in it, bro. You could tell he was in big pain. His hand was shaking minutes after the event.
I don’t know what’s worse, the door, or this idiot thinking a banana is an accurate prop to use in place of a finger. I would’ve used something smaller than my finger. If it detected that, you would think a finger would be safe…
One other thing here is that the sensitivity of the detection is actually decreased with repeat attempts. This is pretty standard.
The reasoning here is that people will check after the first failure. And if they then send the close request again, the car will try a bit harder. Maybe it’s just some bit of oversized luggage that can be pushed down.
Oh boy. If he only knew this…
I love how every time I see this pos it gets worse 😂
I was traveling for work recently and saw one of these every morning, and God damn did it fire me up to rage against the machine.
Did the Metallica finish divert your attention given you’re usually such a Radio head when driving, that you wanted to rather eat a bag of nine inch nails than having to look at this thing?
Are the tires really that thin or it just looks like that in the image?
I actually thought they looked too thin too, but in the sense that it might help it look more like a hot wheels car (and a little better to look at)
Now I’m just thinking it was supposed to have wider tires and they changed that too
Looks like a standard tire to me
They are wider than most car tires, but they are also very tall. Their website says the tires are 285/65R20. Very high profile, even with 20” wheels.
The cyberpinto got booted
now you have to pay a monthly fee to be able to drive with a boot on your wheel
