FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Police said 34 new Tesla Cybertrucks were damaged. The owner parked the exotic cars in a parking lot in Fort Lauderdale.
In an apparent vendetta against Elon Musk, a vandal, or vandals spray-painted an expletive and his name — “F--- Elon” — on the ostentatious electric trucks starting at over $80,000 each.
“It was just one row and then it was a second row, and then a third row and a fourth row,” Adam Docktor, who works nearby, said.
Tesla leases the parking lot to store the new vehicles.
“I thought Elon Musk put them on sale,” Hoss Alavi, who works nearby, said. “I was trying to buy one.”
The lot is “in the back of projects where no security, no gates, nothing,” TikToker AJ Cook said.
Yasser Rabello noticed the spray-painted vehicles just after 4 a.m. Friday, recorded a video, and posted it online.
“Vandalism is not acceptable,” Rabello said. “It is illegal.”
By Friday afternoon, the graffiti had been wiped off.
Social media influencers and passersby stopped to snap photos.
“I just heard about it and I came out here to see if it was true and I see all of these Teslas,” TikToker Chase Thomas said.
Fort Lauderdale police are now investigating the case.
People said Friday that the vehicles have been on the lot for about three days. It’s not clear how long Tesla plans to use the lot.