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Gold Tesla Cybertruck owner in Massachusetts says he's been threatened and harassed.

www.cbsnews.com Tesla Cybertruck owner in Massachusetts says he's been threatened and harassed

A Tesla owner in Massachusetts says he's been threatened because he drives a Cybertruck made by Elon Musk's company.

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says he's been cut off in traffic
It's Massachusetts. That their state pass time
been yelled at and given the finger
If everyone you see (Plus, you drive a gold vehicle. Talk about self-absorbed) is an asshole, you might be the asshole
- Hey, the second state pastime is giving the finger and yelling in traffic. We take these pastimes seriously, like sports and drinking.
  
  The only way he could have made it worse for himself is if he had an RI plate. Mass residents have never been shy about letting people know how they feel about them (for better, or very worse 😅)
  
  Also drinking while driving with an attached snow plow. I see you, Berkshire county. It's not a sport... Yet.
  
  *pass times. As in, a way to pass the time, like with a hobby such as fishing or drinking.
  Edit: I stand corrected and humbled.
- Yeah, they couldn't possibly be yelling at him because he sucks at driving.
  
  The truck probably is doing most of the shitty driving anyhow.
- pass time
  I just realized I've always thought of it as past time, I guess I usually see it written as "pastime". Past time doesn't make any sense at all, the way I've always thought of it. Neat!
  
  "pastime" is correct. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/pastime
  
  With a single "s"? I've never seen that.
  Edit: until seeing this comment. Wtaf?
  https://alexandrite.app/Lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/16674217
  Edit: Well, I stand corrected. Pastime is right. I cannot believe I never knew that.
- As the saying goes, if you smell shit everywhere you go, check your shoes.
- They call it a 'Boston Left' for a reason.
- Shows how well they have been treated for so long they feel entitled to politeness.
  None of that is threatening or harassing behavior.

Jaroje was so worried that he tried to trade in the Cybertruck, but with no luck. He said he received a call and a text from a Tesla representative saying the company can't take the truck back, even after sending them the hateful sticker.
"He confirmed with the text message that Tesla is not accepting Cybertruck trade-ins at this moment," Jaroje said. He hopes the community will set aside judgment and be open to differences.
The vehicles are so bad that even the company that makes them won't buy them.
- More like, they can't sell what they've already got so they aren't gonna take even more stock.
  
  Yes, because they're so bad.
  
  Fuck the cyber truck and all, but their sales numbers are still pretty good when you compare them to the other expensive EV trucks floating around.
  If they were more affordable, I guarantee you that you’d see more assholes driving these.
- Oh shit, I thought I was joking that he had no way to get rid of it.
- Judging this guy by the rest of the company he's in as far as these Cybertrucks go, I wonder how "open to differences" he is towards other people.
- Didn't the people purchasing them have to sign a document saying they would not resell them to a 3rd party? Or did that not happen?
  
  They backpedaled on that because they aren't worth shit.

"It's not just about what happened to me. It's about everyone in this country. If you disagree, don't retaliate. Don't be violent. Don't try to hurt your neighbor. We're all human,"
I mean, if you believe that, my guy, you shouldn't have bought the nazi truck. You also definitely should not have gotten a fucking gold one. You also ABSOLUTELY shouldn't have driven it around in MASSACHUSETTS. I flip these fucks off when I see them here. I don't agree with physically threatening them, but c'est la vie I guess.
- Be careful out there, flipping off other drivers is considered "road rage" in some places and can get you ticketed.
  Plus, a thumbs down with a look of disgust is funnier!
  
  I throw them one of these looks.
  
  Bro, as a Massachusettsan born and raised if you dare touch my primary form of expression ya gonna get a hot cuppa dunkins in the face. That'd be like banning wicked sick donuts in a rotary.
  
  I point and laugh at the ones I see here in Seattle. You can do a pretty good show of it from a bike while passing them being stuck in traffic lol
  
  Only if you do it outside the vehicle. This actually came up years ago when I took a motorcycle course. Since you're always outside the vehicle I guess you can't flick people off.
  
  This feels like such a thin reason to get a ticket if you ask me. A rude gesture is just a rude gesture. But... be careful out there! I feel safe enough to flip them off, but I encourage safer forms of heckling them, like pointing and laughing.
  
  Also a chance you’ll catch one of those guys carrying in their cars - that’s their thing. No need to put yourself in the crosshairs for an unhinged person…
  
  It can also get you shot, people are insane in their cars.
  
  Orrr little light vandalism if you're going to commit
- I just love that someone is complaining about people being rude to him in a state with such rude, aggressive drivers that the term 'Masshole' was invented to describe them.
  
  Eh... You don't even want to hear what they call people from Connecticut
- No one was physically threatening him anyway.
  
  I hope not. The article and video were a little vague on that. Some people apparently cut him off and got out of the car to flip him off, which is a bit much IMHO.
- Yeah, massholes aren't nice to anyone unless they need it. You want someone to be kind to you in Boston? Get irresponsibly drunk and start crying on the bathroom floor otherwise they're gonna tell you to shut the fuck up, fuck right on off, and get the fuck over it because they assume you can handle hearing it and may need to.
  
  Man, you interact with a way different kind of people in MA than I do.

We’re all human
Why is he ok with people that don’t treat others as human, yet expects to be treated as human himself, then?
- I think the easy answer is that people like that have a narrower definition of human.
  
  I agree. Those people are twats.
- Because the best summary of conservative logic I ever read way "I get to tell you what to do but you don't get to tell me what to do."

GOLD Cybertruck…
“Look at me! Pay attention to me!”
“…oh no, not like that.”
- While the Cybertruck is a screaming gold color, it's for a reason. It's a billboard for the medical spa the Syrian immigrant said he worked hard to build from the ground up three years ago.
  
  There's no billboard on the car in the article. There's likely a small sticker somewhere. This is a common practice by business owners so they can file their personal vehicle as a business expense and dodge some of their tax liability. Frankly it's a pretty shitty practice.
  
  Oh, so it's even more offensive because it's a goddamn advertisement?
  Edit: and a fucking tax dodge, to boot!
  It's just digging this entitled fuckwad's hole even deeper.
  
  Ah, so he deserves it, then
  
  "Look, it's an ugly gold Cybertruck! Clearly I must go to this medical spa that I don't know the name of or that it exists at all!"

We're all human
Dude, Tesla's CEO endorsed a racist, misogynistic, transphobic and pauperophobic rapist. He shows up at AfD and FdI rallies.
You're Syrian, once they've rounded up all the poor brown people they'll come for you. After all, a god-fearing, bible-thumping, red-white-and-blue bleeding American could be given your business.
And your taste in cars sucks, by the way.
- We’re all human
  Yeah, and a non-zero amount of humans are insufferable bastards bent on subverting, dismantling and exploiting society for their own gain.
  
  This. Being human doesn’t excuse you being a piece of shit and a danger to others.
  
  Non-zero is an extremely low estimate.
- Even without the whole elon shitshow, it's still cunts like that who buy cars that endanger everyone around them.

It sounds like we all agree. Despite all the rightful cybertruck hate and despite the garish gold color, this driver was not even particularly persecuted. He was just living the life of a normal Bostonian (which always includes other drivers cursing at you, cause that's what we do here).
So... This is actually just a non-story. The headline could have been "Ridiculous gold cybertruck exists in Massachusetts, driver treated normally"
Or perhaps,
"Driver of ridiculous gold cyber truck somehow still isn't getting enough attention!"
- Man buys ridiculous car gets ridiculed. More news at six.
  
  Right!
- I once had someone throw a beer bottle at me from their car as I was walking the dog. They yelled 'Dog Wanker!' Where's my news story?
  
  Ok, that's a bit messed up. And "wanker"? Did you walk the dog all the way to London?
  You sure they didn't say "fuckhead" and maybe it only sounded like wanker?
- That doesn't help their persecution complex...

"That's why I came to this country. I pursued my dream. Now, I'm enjoying the free speech, but with this taking a different turn, that made me very concerned," Jaroje said.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean your free from consequences.
"It's not just about what happened to me. It's about everyone in this country. If you disagree, don't retaliate. Don't be violent. Don't try to hurt your neighbor. We're all human," he said.
He is encouraging a nazi oligarch through the purchase of what is a gross flashy display of his wealth in a time where the wealth gap has never been so wide. You're just asking for it at this point.
- Freedom of speech doesn't mean your free from consequences.
  This is why the current administration is beginning the removal of freedom of speech (by enforcing removal of certain words from all government forms/sites/documents)

Oh no. Anyways…

"I wish to buy something that tells everyone that I'm richer and better than them."
Later...
"Waaaah! Everyone's being mean to me because I'm telling everyone I'm richer and better than them!"

He thinks his family isn't safe in it... Yet he continues to drive it
You drive a rolling swastika and BLARING sign of historical wealth inequality that you've literally wrapped in gold - you deserve so much more fucking hate culminating in a brief rest of your heavy head that wears the crown on the guillotine. Tone deaf, fucking ghoul.
- Poetry
- Apparently he tried to trade it in, but Tesla isn't accepting cybertrucks back. Wonder why....

Gold swasticar*
- noice!

Dude who can take anyone who drives this thing seriously.
YOU LOOK RIDICULOUS.
Me driving around in my clown car "I just don't understand why everyone keeps calling me a clown and laughing at me 😭"
- I laughed at a broken down cybertruck once from my literal clown car (an overstuffed Honda Fit) in below freezing weather
  NGL, it gave me a serotonin bump
- Laughing is one thing
  Threatened is something else. No excuse for that
  
  We all know this guy is embellishing. "My wife screamed how she would never drive it again!" No, that didn't happen.

Buy overpriced ugly truck from an outward Nazi
Cover it in shiny gold wrap to draw even more attention and be obnoxious to anyone who doesn't want to be blinded on the road
Be surprised when people don't like you
????
- Do obnoxious stuff for "librul tears".
  Cry like a baby when people do obnoxious stuff back.

Hard to find any sympathy for the guy. A cybertruck costs almost 3 times the amount of comparable electric trucks.
You pay that much extra because you want the hate.
- "I bought this car because FUCK THE LIBS! But why are they harassing me?!"
  
  Funny that the people with Teslas used to be libs.
- I hate Elon as much as the next guy but there's no need to spread blatant misinformation.
  Cybertruck MSRP: $80-100k
  Ford F-150 Lightning MSRP: $50-90k
  Chevy Silverado EV MSRP: $55-95k
  and that is the majority of your options. Obviously cybertruck isn't near as capable as the other two and it's also an ugly piece of shit, but there's no need to make things up to diss the idiots buying them, they do it themselves.
  *Edit: formatting
  
  https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/30/23663618/ford-f-150-lightning-price-hike-original-price
  When it was originally released the lightning started at 40k and that's what I was thinking of. Your point about the price today are fine, but there is no need to assume things.

He’s a doctor what kind of doctor lacks the foresight to buy a Cybertruck.
seeing that his practice is called Sculpting MD
Oh never mind.
- Ben Carson was a brain surgeon... need I say more?
  
  Ah, but Ben Carson made a ton of money by grifting to the right. The billionaire class collectively throw billions at their propaganda machines

There's only one reason to get a cybertruck, the one thing it is excellent at: grabbing attention.
Mission accomplished buddy.
- Demolition Derby?
- Same with any sports car, come on

Make shame great again! ✊

the Syrian immigrant
Weird that he's driving around a swasticar from a company run by a guy that would probably like to deport him...

Good.
- The obvious thought.
- “Violence is only bad when it’s against people I like.”
  Dumbfuck.
  
  Paradox of tolerance
  
  “Wahhh wahh”
  Tedesche
  
  the hypersuck isn't allowed on the road in normal countries. just because fascistan allows it doesn't mean people should tolerate this death machine on the road. I hope it totals, so maybe it should drive over some puddle or whatever stupid thing makes these explode.
  
  Harassment and threats are not violence. If I were to punch a trumper, that would be violence.
  
  At the bottom of the article, the swasticar owner makes a similar "people who disagree" argument. This is fascism we're talking about, not pizza toppings. Idiot.
  
  Based. Sometimes this space annoys the fuck outta me

Play stupid games...

If you disagree, don't retaliate. Don't be violent. Don't try to hurt your neighbor.
If that's what you believe, maybe don't drive a symbol that is the opposite of these?

Bis wife started screaming after seeing a "profane sticker"? Sounds like an "and then everybody clapped" story to me.
- She was, crying, screaming out of her throat, even. The horrors.

Dr. Kumait Jaroje said someone put a profane sticker on his gold Cybertruck back on February 7 in Worcester. When he posted a photo of it on social media he told police he started getting threats online.
I put a post-it note on a cybertruck that said "STUPID." I bet his was similar. Fucking crybabies.
- Man goes to Worcester in an expensive car, is upset it gets fucked with.
  For those not from the area, Worcester has been one of the rougher cities in MA forever. It's not the worst by any stretch, but it has been going through waves of gentrification which leads to fun stories like this one as worlds collide.
  I wouldn't park a gold wrapped K car parked in Worcester. But now I want to park a chalk board painted K car in Worcester. Should go exactly as you'd think.

F-him, the gold color represents the MAGA diapers, ear diapers, shoes and watch.

Hasn't he suffered enough. I mean, he's driving a 'gold cybertruck'

Man, if only we were hip to what an asshole musk was a month ago. His fans could have known that buying a cybertruck was going to get negative attention. But I guess there were no signs to warn us. And really, who drives cybertrucks more than single moms living paycheck to paycheck, day laborers, and other marginalized folks? We should just assume that anyone in a gold cyber truck had zero idea what they were doing, had no intention of being an edgy dbag, and only uses it to deliver fresh produce to the local food banks.

If you don’t want to be treated like a nazi sympathizer, then don’t drive a nazi vehicle. Simple.

I flip them the bird every time I see one now, fuckin nazi simps need to know they’re hated
- Even if it is 10 degrees, I'll roll down the window and make a jackoff gesture. Fucking clowns. I have appointments near a Boeing office, you'll be shocked to know that more than a few Boeing employees drive Wankpanzers. Boeing planes are built to the same standards lately so it tracks.

Too bad there's no way to get rid of that thing.

It's not just about what happened to me. It's about everyone in this country. If you disagree, don't retaliate. Don't be violent. Don't try to hurt your neighbor.
That's the entire point of this administration: retaliation. That's why we're here in the first place.

That's weird. I'm never threatened and harassed when driving my nazi Sturm panzer. I don't see why the ugly American equivalent would enrage people. Maybe just because it's really ugly. I could understand that.

Buy goober toys, get goober responses

I always make the blowjob motion at a cyberfuck when I saw one. It’s ok to bully nazi supporters.
- Are they sure you're not advertising services? That hand motion isn't very clear on that essential point.
  
  I donno. Don’t really care either

It's the little things that give me hope... Stuff like this. Get fucked, supporters of Elon Musk.
Yes, if you drive his car, you support him. Sell it, watch the value drop overall from you and others doing it, and you'll be back on the other side of the fence.

did he consider changing as a person?

So trashy looking. I'm not surprised people make fun, but threats are also trashy.

Yah, driving a car that symbolizes the guy helping destroy the nation isn't going to win you points. Sounds like he (Syrian immigrant) bought it a couple of years too early before Elon revealed his stripes.
- Elon revealed his stripes years ago. It is only willful ignorance to act surprised now

talk about excellent life choices

Behold! The Golden Swasticar!
Wow. Even if Musk was still an OK guy and the cybertruck a decent car - a golden car simply points out the owners mental deficits.
- I saw a fully hogh gloss chrome car the other day. No idea what make/model but it was a jarring sight and hard on the eyes due to reflecting the sun. I didn't feel nearly as much disdain towards the driver as I do from the photo of a gold dumpster with windows.
  
  Luckily, this is illegal in civilized countries.

Maybe he shouldn't wear that outside of the house.

What a fucking loser.

Good.

Can't he just drive it to a "safe space"?

Bad things happening to bad people

Oh? How does it feel? Turnabout is fair play.

That photo gave me a some serious Goldeneye 007 on the N64 vibes, its like he unlocked the cheat code to get the golden car to go with the golden gun.
Until now I didnt think it was possible to make that thing look more low-poly.

Good keep it up guys

Cyberjunk owners:

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