So after son got to mall, he put tesla in park and got fob not in car error. He never left car, looking for fob inside and then called me. I went outside of house to look for fob, and retrace his steps leading up to him arriving at mall. While outside in my driveway, looking for the fob, an older man came out of my neighbors side yard and walked down street.
Not being able to locate fob I drove up to mall. while there called Tesla, explained situation. The best they could do was lock the car and notify my Tesla center that the fob was not present. Notified Mall that car would be in parking lot over night and asked that they not tow vehicle. After arriving back home decided to go on a scavenger hunt for the fob, using flashlights each one scanning side of street all the way out of complex. While doing so, suspicious man came back. Seeing us tried to do a quick u turn. We were able to get license plate number. Continued on to look for the fob. After scouring the area, we came up empty. Went to neighbors house to see if they knew guy coming from yard. No answer despite dogs barking and front door open. went to another neighbor who got in touch withe them. Just 16 year old daughter home alone and did not have anybody over. Mom was at work. She was now freaked out and went over to stay at neighbors house. At this point I decided to call Police. After Police arrive i explain situation. All neighbors came out to see whats up. Police officer goes to check on cars and house. Everythings fine, and then comes back and informs me that License plate was a dead chevy, bad plate. When I check on number he has its off by one digit. He re checks and has a match, closes lap top so I dont see information. Explains that he may have been looking for somebodies house, had to take a leak, thats why he came out of the bushes. But they will come back later and check on area. We all went back inside. Next morning went to work. After 9:00 I get a text from my son, he found the fob, about a 1/2 mile from home. It was in the middle of a busy two lane highway. How he found it was beyond me, it was in a black and green neoprene sleeve. It was outside of our original search area. He went back to mall and the fob still worked. There was a note on car that it would be subject to tow for being left in lot overnight. Great. How it was not crushed in the middle of the road, with a 50 MPH speed limit is beyond me. I call Tesla and inform them the Fob is found, they inform me that they should have explained more about the problem of having one fob and what could happen, but hey I got the whole picture now. Still dont know how fob got there..Thrown out window by stranger or maybe left on roof and drive away not knowing it was there and then at a certain speed it fell off? When i arrived home and picked up mail, read note on mailbox that we have been having suspicious cars in neighborhood which have resulted in break ins...So I am glad i reported stranger. Tesla is now at home. Tomorrow will pick up my real one and return this one...Im done