Fucking tow em.
And charge them fees. Just like they'd do to any individual. The city could make some real bank.
Ah, they're parked on private property, which means the property owner needs to have them towed. Which means the city has to notify the property owner (they have) ahead of the city doing the tow order. That it's a derelict shopping mall means that the property owner likely doesn't care. There's also the complication of the city not wanting to piss off a commercial property owner.
But yeah, the end result should be towing, with daily storage fees racking up until Tesla comes and pays up. Tow lots don't fuck around.
The only caveat is that they're violating zoning codes. That means the city can directly act on it.
Of course, they likely have to go through the notification process before towing them, but they probably don't have to have the property owners permission to do so. More likely they'll warn the property owner a few times, then send them the bill for towing.
I imagine the city can tow, after following some kind of notification schedule. But the property owner isn't going to pay the bill; not their vehicles, why would they give a fuck? Tesla is going to argue that the property owner should pay, since the violation is against the property owner. Tesla might not care, either, they've got nothing to do with the vehicles since nobody wants to buy them. If you just leave them in the impound lot, there's no bill to pay. Since they're unsold vehicles, there aren't even titles for the city to put a lien on for the impound fee.
On the other hand, I know where a bunch of Crybertrucks (I'm leaving it) are, in case anyone has a bunch of extra spray paint they need to use up.
They're probably hoping they get vandalized so they can collect insurance on them
Can't the city claim eminent domain on them and then sell them at auction?
Sell them for pennies to the US military. They can use them as incendiary devices.
They wouldnt even make good range targets because theyre likely to spontaniously combust
Use them as target practice or give them to fire departments to train on extinguishing lithium fires.
Elmo would remotely brick them out of spite if that happened.
I'll take one for $1
Fuck that, pay me to get rid of that for you
I don't know if I would. I don't want the analytics and tracking on me.
$1.01
That's to rich for my blood.
“I’d buy that for a dollar!”
That is a lengthy court process. Just call in an anonymous tip to the cops that they're being used to smuggle drugs, and they can civil forfeiture them. Then police auction
But using the land for vehicle storage is against city code.
You can park your car in the parking lot, but not that car...
And dealers do not randomly park cars in parking lots without permission otherwise they would have been towed. The lot owner is getting paid.
A lot of municipalities have different rules and definitions for "parking" and "long-term parking." In a lot of cases long-term parking is strictly prohibited in places where parking is otherwise encouraged. You can't just leave your vehicle in one place.
You've got to move it, move it.
I'm trying to figure out why someone would care. The mall is mostly closed. Yeah, the dealership must have paid the lot owner, so I don't see the problem.
It'd be great if the ugly things didn't exist, but since they do, they have to go somewhere.
It’d be great if the ugly things didn’t exist, but since they do, they have to go somewhere.
Yes, recycling centers.
they have to go somewhere.
Recycling plant?
Some of those trucks ended up stored at a run-down mall in Farmington Hills outside of Detroit in Michigan. Unsurprisingly, local officials are not happy about it.
Lol, he's not even trying to hide them anymore. I would like to see pics of these trucks *from afar at the rundown mall. It sounds very dystopian to see, Mad Max like.
Edit: The pics they show don't show the mall in the background and how empty it looks.
Bringing the property value down.
Hmmm.
So EVs are pretty simple machines. I think we can all agree on that. Like I am not a mechanic and I can work on these things (well maybe not the tires).
But the problem isn't just that a single component in these things sucks, it's the whole design. That being said, the motors, controllers, axles, sensors, etc, can't all be entirely custom. I would be willing to bet there is a fair amount of useful shit we could "borrow" from unsupervised and unwanted cyber trucks to rebuild them into something much much better.
But using the land for ~~vehicle~~ dumpster storage is against city code. 😂
Well if they're just abandoning them, then the city should seize them and start selling them for parts. I know most of it is garbage but surely parts of it can go to something more useful.
The article didn’t do their research but certainly implies it’s the landlord making a quick buck on storage fees why waiting for redevelopment to start
Tesla’s Cybertruck is a big silver sales flop and that’s given the company several problems, including working out what to do with all the electric pickups it can’t sell.
Yes. That's how you start a swastidumpster article.
Give them to homeless people as shelter and give them a charging spot.
Why would they want a "shelter" that leaks and randomly catches on fire?
That’s how you sell the plan to republican lawmakers.
So just tow them all and impound them.
I suspect that the impoundment lot is far smaller than the disused shopping center parking lot.
I think they should just let Tesla store them there and ask Tesla for some fee for use of the thing. I really don't think that having them there is likely very harmful to the area.
It's likely the land owner IS renting the lot to whomever currently owns the Teslas.
The city however noticed and notified the landowner that it's not zoned for storage.
Sounds like rage mall parking lot parties are a good start. Just start destroying them
Looking at the video, it's not just trucks, it's a whole lot of cars, too. At first I thought that was an active mall and those were cars of shoppers, but then you can tell that they're all teslas.
Wow, that sounds like announcing a really juicy target for certain people. But if those vehicles were to sustain damage, that might mean an insurance payout. So really, there is an insurance company or two out there that we should be short selling and that should be providing security on that lot.
Someone call a bomb squad. There are a bunch of terrorist bombs disguised as tesla cars in parking lots. I heard it's complicated to defuse, so I think we should just conduct a controlled detonation on these obvious terrorist cars. 😏
Plenty of valuable recyclables and use the batteries for power storage. Fuck Leon Hitler.
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