Driving an electric car can sometimes make a calm person slide into bouts of extreme desperation.
That may be the kindest way to describe why a Florida man ditched his Tesla on another person’s lawn, stole electricity from that house, and walked off to party with friends in the middle of the night.
WPBF 25 television reported this exact scene in Lake Worth, a seaside locale just south of West Palm Beach, that occurred last Friday.
The Model 3 owner, who was lucky to be unnamed in the story and have trespassing charges dropped by the homeowner, said his car’s battery had died on the way to a friend’s house around midnight.
So, he figured, why not pull up onto a stranger’s front lawn and stretch a 120-volt cord to an external outlet—a grounded plug surrounded by well-manicured landscaping, just perfect—and leave the car for 12 hours?
Homeowner Phil Fraumeni said he woke up on that Friday morning to a call from his landscaper asking him to move his white Model 3 off the lawn. Fraumeni replied he didn’t have a Model 3.
Then he saw the friendly setup that had been draining electricity while he slept. WPBF 25 said he waited several hours for the car’s owner to return before calling the police, who then tracked down the owner’s address and waited some more for the man to show up.
He showed up, didn’t apologize, was told he’d committed a crime, and that was that. What’s more, he didn’t pay Fraumeni for the free charge.
Low batteries can do something to the human psyche.
Range anxiety is still a thing, no matter if a Tesla can comfortably travel 250-plus miles per charge when you’re not following the car’s prescribed instructions to charge at precisely the right times.
But when you screw up, you call AAA.
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Liberals are fine with stealing from others, That’s what they do.
Just like running out of gas. Except you can transport a portable dose of energy to your vehicle to get it to run again. Or coast into a gasoline charging station, that takes minutes to recharge your gasoline vehicle.
Such convenience!
Wait, we must do away with this. This is too user friendly.
Slightly off-topic perhaps: When young and stupidly fearless, I once let the gas go totally dry while running along a freeway. I actually felt the telltale burps as the fuel line began to suck air. Luckily, I knew along the route 1/2 mile ahead was an exit ramp which ended next to a gas station. Coming to the ramp I kept going at full freeway speed and sure enough the engine choked out halfway up the ramp, so the excess speed was nearly bled off when I reached the top of the ramp. Having a manual transmission I was able to take it out of gear and kept enough forward speed to coast to a gas pump. Five minutes later my nightmare was ended.
Greenies have a sense of entitlement because they are saving the planet.
If it was my power he was stealing his first stop would have been to a paint shop.
And this chap is driving around with a long extension cord in his vehicle, with an adapter to plug into his car. Almost as if he expected a problem – and already knew how he’d get around it…..