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Sentry Mode bust!

Discussion in 'Model S' started by Tonez, Feb 22, 2021.

  1. SDRick

    SDRick Active Member

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    You can't go around saying stuff like this anymore. This is considered a micro-aggression against a protected class! (Well, I think douchebags are a protected class around here if the damages are under four figures).
     
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  2. TEG

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    #122 TEG, Feb 28, 2021
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    Thanks! Yeah, they did repaint them and expanded them and got rid of the shopping cart storage lane. These are clearly marked now from the repaint.

    Maybe the guy felt righteous and felt like keying any cars in the drive-up lane with nobody inside waiting, or maybe he hates Teslas, or maybe he just likes keying cars in general.

    Thank goodness for sentry mode !



    (By the way, there was someone busted in a city near me recently who had just gone on a keying spree and had keyed bunches of cars... )
    Some people just like to damage other people's property for no real reason.
     
  3. 4SUPER9

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    I think this is a very important added facet to the case, and is not going to look good for this guy in court. Please use this if you can. He intentionally parked in a red zone (though by private parking lot, and not city standards) then keys the car next to him for no reason (none that we can tell), in spite of plenty of room for him. This demonstrates a flagrant disregard for others on multiple levels.

    My guess is that he will plead no contest, so we will never actually hear a word he says, which is too bad. If he did, I am confident this guy would dig himself a deeper hole. There is something very wrong with him. From what you said, even people from his work turned him in. There is apparently no love for him there either, and we can now see why. He is bad news.

    I am really looking forward to the outcome of this. Thank you for your updates.
     
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  4. GoBlue88

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    I lived in Ann Arbor for a couple of years in the early 90's and I always struggled with this attitude. Supposedly a capitalist country where competition is embraced, yet you get hated on for driving a car from the wrong brand. It was especially pronounced if you *GASP* drove a Japanese branded car (I drove a Nissan at the time).
     
  5. TEG

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    #125 TEG, Mar 1, 2021 at 11:26 AM
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    Yeah, I had seen that too when traveling in Michigan car factory towns. People shouting "buy American!" at Japanese car drivers. Japanese cars getting vandalized a lot back then.
    I am not sure how the locals take to Teslas in general. It is an American brand, but maybe some anti-electric, or even anti-California sentiments.
    Basically anything that threatens the jobs at the big local employer is going to be met with some hostility.
    Now FCA has Fiat 500e... I wonder if that jerk would have done the same thing to one of those parked next to him.

    FCA had been spreading anti Tesla rhetoric in the past...
    Fiat Chrysler Boss Again Rips Into Tesla, Says Economic Model For Electric Cars Doesn't Work

    But FCA apparently buys carbon offset credits from Tesla now...

    Oh, and by the way, Tesla vandalized in Pontiac Michigan.
     
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