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Tesla dumping unsold Cybertrucks at mall parking lot and the city’s fed up (www.carscoops.com)

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Farmington Hills officials are fuming over a glut of unsold Cybertrucks being stored in the city.
Tesla has been parking the EVs at a shopping center earmarked for major redevelopment.
Officials say the electric vehicles violate zoning codes and are warning the property owner.

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

The property owners should seize them for unpaid storage fee's. That has happened in my state. Putting your property on someone elses property is considered a tacit admission of a debt when it comes to storage. Ironically there is another law that states you can't charge for more than six months storage without a signed agreement. However there is nothing regulating how much that fee is. Case in point a person failed to pick up late model car at a towing company for two years. The towing company gave the owner a huge bill and they went to court to get it reduced to six months. The towing company just resubmitted a bill for six months at a increased rate that equaled the amount of the original bill. By the time the asshole who should have come and got their car sooner got through the bill had went up again. It was quite entertaining. to watch.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Everywhere you look in Illinois you'll see variations of "unauthorized vehicles will be towed at owners expense." So I don't know what those guys' problem is; impound them.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Aren’t these atrocities full of nice lithium batteries? If so, confiscated cars can be scraped for parts with the batteries going to hospitals, schools, the ACAB offices and fire departments to be used as backup electricity.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

I'm surprised nobody has stolen the rims or the batteries, or even tried to steal the catalytic converter.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

What catalytic converter? They're electric.

The metal body panels that have just been haphazardly hung onto the frame on the other hand...

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

Hence "tried".

[-] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Haha, nice one. Now I'm just imagining some methhead cutting into random parts of one of these things trying to find the nonexistent catalytic converter.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

You sly fox

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

ACAB offices? Never knew they had offices?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Just set them on fire.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

This was my first thought. But the top comment talking about the batteries and what not going to hospitals and emergency centers made me feel different, hopeful even. Like, a feeling of organized chaotic good anarchy. Why burn the cars completely, when we can resources the useful parts, and then burn the left over scraps of the worthless useless billionaire? I mean... car.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Oh I mean I totally agree, the "burn them" was just a reflex. I agree that scavenging them for parts would be magnitudes more beneficial to everyone.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

Scavenge then burn.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Together with the billionaires.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Think of the environment. Scavenge them, fill them with waste after as they are dumpsters anyway. Let Tesla deal with the disposal, will cost them loads of money, running them further towards bankruptcy.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

By sitting here and waiting, we are all kind of setting them on fire a little bit. Statistically true statement.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Here's a lot I pass by every day.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

They're just so damn ugly. One pulled up next to me at a light the other day and it looked like a cockroach skittered into my side vision.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

I'm honestly impressed by how many I see. It's probably just such an eyesore that I notice every one the enters my fov without fail. I always give those death machine a wide berth, as not only is the vehicle itself deadly, I don't trust the drivers in the slightest.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Considering the fear people have because EV's could burn all the time, this is a massive threat to environment and should be fixed (or towed & billed).

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