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7mo ago

Sucks to suck!

Found in the wild in Tennessee

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Thank goodness they put the sticker on the window. It would have damaged the door.
- ... Wouldn't that be especially bad on a normal painted door's clear coat?
- Paint on that door looks like it’s already fucked.
  
  It's not paint it's bare stainless steel. Those are fingerprints that you're seeing.
  
  lol paint

I saw one of these for the first time the other day and was kind of awestruck at how dumb it looked in real life. I mean, I was never a big fan of the design but it really looked so much worse in person
- Wait, you've never wanted to drive a doorstop?
  
  It's been a lifelong dream of mine.
- SAME! I was surprised both at how big it was, and how much I didn't like it.
- Just saw one for the first time today. Man its honestly much worse in person.
  
  it might be the ugliest car ever made honestly, i urge people to find an uglier mass-produced car.
- Was driving in a Houston suburb and had one overtake me on the right. Just gave it a super wide berth. I know my 24 year old Civic would shred like paper if that thing hit me.
- I've said something similar in other threads - after seeing other people say it's worse in person, I was still surprised at how cartoonishly awful it looked when I first saw one. They look terrible in pictures, but so much worse in person. I saw one that was painted bright green and it was so bad that I burst out laughing.

Is it already rusting? lol
- It's stainless steel so it's just surface level, but yes lmao it wasn't treated for outdoor use
  
  Maybe it encountered some extreme conditions, like a car wash.
  
  So what! I love scraping rust off my vehicle every week
  -cyber truck owners, presumably
  
  I'm a St. Louis boy so I grew up with the Gateway Arch. It looks better after 55 years of exposure to the elements than Cybertrucks do after 5 weeks.

I saw someone refer to these stupid things as “Incel-Caminos”, and that’s the most perfect description of anything I’ve come across recently.
- I've said for a while that they look like a cheap fiberglass shell put over an El Camino for a straight-to-video Mad Max ripoff from the 80s.

Even the tires are ugly. That's... kind of impressive. I never once considered tires could be uglier than other tires. But here we are.
- Yeah it’s meant to have uglier wheels that fit with those ugly tires, possibly only with the ugly tires.
  I think it’s as close low polygon wheels they could get before they become hexagonal.
  
  "I want the wheels to look like Lara Croft"
- Wait, yeah... Why do they look like that? I've literally never seen ugly tires in my entire life before. This is the first time.
  
  They're supposed to have covers
  but IIRC they cost extra

Drive it anyway. The Cybertruck can handle it. The Cybertruck can handle anything! I heard it's made out of 1978 Hot Wheels parts and 1982 Megaforce machismo.

Best part is the fingerprints that act as a door handle
- Ew I missed that. Someone is not following the factory recommend hourly full chassis wipedowns.

What's on the top of the picture? I can't figure it out.
- It's like a tarp or something? I've been trying to figure it out too.
  
  I think they're in some sort of lot, under a tent. The Lego truck isn't on asphalt. You can see how the road runs past it in the upper left.
- ~~Looks like the picture was taken from the passenger seat of a car with the ceiling coming unglued from the roof~~
  Nvm, that is the top of a car, not the windshield wipers. Looks like some sort of awning.
- Looks like picture was taken from a jeep or some other sort of vehicle with a soft top, and we're seeing that top hanging down into the shot

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?
  
  Electric = Liberuls
  
  yea that didn't happen

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!"
  
  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.
- 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.
- 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. 👈😎👈

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...

What an ugly, dirty truck.
- Stupid Ugly Vehicle

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?

What's going on with the top quarter of this pic?
- 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.
- I know right? I am actually stumped by how I cannot place wtf that is.
- 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.

How long does it take to tame a Cybertruck?.. 🤔
- 2 weeks with an angle grinder ought to do it.
  
  They're weak to water.
  
  Make sure to wash it with gasoline to remove the rust 👍

I saw once in the wild last week and it was wrapped in silver vinyl. That seems like a necessity for these trucks.
- It is, and it’s like $2000 extra
  
  Small price to pay when you're always pissed out $80k

Amazing how bad those panels look after what, a few months?

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

Lol what a douchebag. I love to see it.
- It looks like they're parked in the lines. What am I missing?
  
  It probably lost charge and stayed parked there too long 😂
  IDFK 🤷‍♂️

The douchiest people drive these things, I swear.

The Tesla Rusty Triangle, the vehicle for your high-iron, low-poly lifestyle.

Looks like you got some ransomware.

You cater exclusively to the easily grifted, surprising to find out that many of them will be deadbeats trying to scam you back.

I love how every time I see this pos it gets worse 😂

Probably a sovcit.

Are the tires really that thin or it just looks like that in the image?
- 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.
- 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

The cyberpinto got booted

First thing I immediately noticed was the rust
- 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😭😭
- Musky Bois be like "that's not rust, it's patina".
- What rust? The dirt around the door jams?

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What's stops someone from simply changing the tire? This seems like a bad design for a boot.
- You could. But they still know who owns the car. They also charge you for the cost of the boot.
  
  Bring the tire with you when you pay the fine so they can take the boot off. All this does is create an inconvenience instead of immobilizing the vehicle.
- Most cars don't come with a spare these days. That's all
  
  Isn't changing a tire on any of the Teslas a bit of a challenge because of the weight? Do they come with heavy duty jacks? I wonder if the Cybertruck even comes with a spare at all.

This is my favorite thing I've seen today.

We're they parked over a cross walk while picking up their kids from a very expensive private school!!!???

I've never seen a car locked like this before.

This is art. Lmao

I swear Lemmy acts like anything shitty happening to a Cybertruck is like it's Elon's personal car getting fucked up. You're being trendy. I fucking hate that guy too but is this really funny or meaningful?
Why don't you just nuke every city in America because we all use Amazon and Bezos is a megalomaniac, evil bastard? Post it on Lemmy and laugh because we all deserved it for supporting him.
- I like grilled cheese sammich as well.
- Look, Elon Musk is the most popular celebrity in the world, probably tied with Donald Trump. Of course we constantly shit talk about him, it's what we humans do. Just roll with it, or continue to have a bad time, it doesn't matter either way.
  
  I think I'll continue to have a bad time on Lemmy, for $500.
  Yes, Elon Musk is. Not some random car owner. This all feels like bullying to me.
  Of course we constantly shit talk about him, it's what we humans do.
  I pretty sure that's almost verbatim what one of my bullies said about me, who also isn't Elon Musk incidentally.
  Just rip on Musk, not his customers.
- Yeah it just seems like an easy scapegoat to join in on and feel cool (not saying I like elon) but it just seems like low hanging fruit.

There is a point that you all will make Lemmy look like dick headed bullies to most people. Is that something your all gunning for?
- Somehow, I doubt THIS is what would drive anyone away.
  I mean, it's got a boot.

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