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Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City (www.theverge.com)
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[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 97 points 8 hours ago

Problem with setting Teslas on fire is we can't know if it's an act of protest or if they just did that on their own.

[-] parmesan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

The incident in Kansas City genuinely does sound like one just caught itself on fire.

In Kansas City, Police Captain Jacob Becchina said in a statement that an officer first observed smoke coming from a Cybertruck parked in a Tesla parking lot. “The officer used his fire extinguisher, however, KCFD was still needed as he could not put the fire out,” Becchina said. “The fire spread to a second Cybertruck parked next to the original burning one. The circumstances are under investigation, but preliminarily, the fire is being investigated for the potential of being an Arson.”

[-] Geodad@lemm.ee 9 points 2 hours ago

Could be insurance fraud too.

[-] RangerJosey@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

Probably a lot of the time it is. Nows a great time to do it if you're gonna.

Saw a post earlier where a guy was 42,000$ underwater on his and wanted to offload it at that big of a loss before his insurance dropped it entirely.

[-] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 hours ago

I was JUST about to say; how do we know they didn't just do that? or that this wasn't a buggy firmware update that just did that? or a malicious firmware update that did this?

[-] alecbowles@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

Exactly 🤣🔥

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