Truck owners are blocking Tesla super chargers in protests

[Ohiogal]

Tesla owners are reporting a spate of “ICE-ing” (an acronym from Internal Combustion Engine) by large trucks at superchargers across the country.

https://amp.businessinsider.com/truck-owners-are-blocking-tesla-superchargers-in-ice-ing-protests-2018-12

[MichMan]

1. The Tesla owners could reciprocate by blocking gas and diesel pumps n/t

[Flaleftist]

2. What sad, pathetic lives some people must live

to have nothing better to do.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. That's not protesting. It's just being a dick.

[Takket]

4. This. It is bullying for the sake of bullying.

[ProudLib72]

6. +1

Well put!

I guess when you're angry at everyone, you have a lot of time on your hands to invent new ways of being a dick.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Unemployed?

[ProudLib72]

10. Changed it. I was making assumptions that I know I shouldn't

But it does seem like they have nothing better to do.

[MichMan]

5. Do the trucks blocking the charging stations park there for an extended amount of time?

Trying to understand people deciding to take up hours of their own day to block charging stations at random just to annoy someone else.



"What are you going to do on your day off Junior?"

"I was going to go fishing, but think I'll go to that Tesla charging place and park in front all afternoon for fun instead."

[pintobean]

7. This is kinda funny

but if he's there to block the charger, it's very dickish.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. I snickered at that one too.

[MineralMan]

13. Looks like that's a Pottery Barn store.

What would Jebus think about this?

[madinmaryland]

32. He couldn't afford clay pigeons so he had to get clay pots. Wait until his

Buddies sees he goes to pottery barn.

[still_one]

34. In California this asshole could get fined and towed away if he pulled that bullshit. There are

other states who also have EV laws

[pintobean]

39. Goodness.

You seem upset.

[Hav]

11. Just another example how stupid chauvinism is

Let's find something that is different to separate us into groups and do something to piss them off and bully them. Not sure what their reasoning is if there even is any. I fear that reporting about this will only increase the number of these incidents until they face consequences/tickets.

[Mendocino]

12. What, doesn't rolling coal

and truck balls do it for them anymore?

[TeeYiYi]

20. :D ...

... ( I wish DU would install a 'like' button.)

TYY

[Cyrano]

14. There will always be Luddites who don't know change is inevitable

[hunter]

37. I'm some kind of Luddite who hates all automobile culture, electric or not.

Thankfully I've never had to drive a big fossil fueled truck and park it in a Tesla charging station to prove I'm a man.

Back in the days of usenet nudity I was fucking hot.

It's possible I still am to some people, even riding the bus.

[still_one]

15. The police need to be called. It will is illegal what they are doing

Tow them away

[X_Digger]

16. What law was broken?

Free clue: Not every asshole move is illegal. (Nor should it be.)

[still_one]

18. They are parked in an electric charging area. That isn't public parking. Musk and Tesla owners pay

for those charge stations

[X_Digger]

19. What law says that charging stations must be used for charging?

If it's public parking lot (and I assume it is based on the pottery barn in the background), then it's an asshole move, but not illegal.

What law would these people be breaking, eh? Unlike a handicapped sign that's backed by law, public parking is public parking.

Just as the 'parking for expectant mothers' signs aren't legally enforceable, I doubt these are, either.

[harumph]

22. It's called "towing enforced" - that's what the property owners can do and should.

[X_Digger]

24. 'Towing enforced' is a property owner decision, not the police.

Call a cop and say I want a car towed off my property, and he'll say, 'not my problem, dipshit'.

Again, what law would be broken in this case?

[still_one]

27. In California it is a violation, and they can and will be towed away. They are called EV laws, and

other states have them also

[X_Digger]

41. This didn't happen in California, it's NC & TN. n/t

[still_one]

45. Ok, got it

[DBoon]

30. You can call a towing service

They will be very happy to remove an unauthorized vehicle from your private property

[X_Digger]

40. Yes, you as the property owner. No law has been broken, not a cop's job.

Call a cop and ask them to have a car towed. Go ahead. Please.

[hunter]

47. For better or worse our local towing services are quite aggressive...

... and their impound fees are high. They're also friendly with the cops.

If I drove a Tesla and happened to find the local the charging station blocked by some stupid truck, I've no doubt a quick call to the towing company would get an immediate response by a big burly tattooed tow truck driver swinging a heavy hooked chain, and zero response by the cops unless someone was on the ground and bleeding.

As a teen, one of my kids parked a family car where he shouldn't have, it was towed, and few days of impound fees would have been more than the car was worth. I was almost of mind to let the towing company have it.

But it's better here than a town south of us where the cops and towing companies were conspiring to steal trucks and SUVs, the nicer the better. The police chief himself was driving an SUV that had been illegally taken and retitled.

[still_one]

26. In California and Washington state their are LAWS banning the blocking of EV charging

spaces. I know that is a fact because I am a Californian, and yes the asshole can be fined and towed away

I don't know what other states laws are, but in California it is illegal for an ICE to do that.

Arizona also has EV charging civil code lasws:

28-876. Parking spaces for electric vehicles; civil penalty

A. A person shall not stop, stand or park a motor vehicle within any parking space specially designated for parking and fueling motor vehicles fueled exclusively by electricity unless the motor vehicle is powered by electricity and has been issued an alternative fuel vehicle special plate or sticker pursuant to section 28-2416.

B. If a law enforcement officer finds a motor vehicle in violation of this section, the law enforcement officer shall issue a complaint to the operator or other person in charge of the motor vehicle or, if an operator or other person is not present, to the registered owner of the motor vehicle for a civil traffic violation.

C. A person who is found responsible for a violation of this section is subject to a civil penalty of at least three hundred fifty dollars. Notwithstanding section 28-1554, the civil penalties collected pursuant to this subsection shall be deposited in the state general fund.

[X_Digger]

42. This didn't happen in California, it's NC & TN. n/t

[still_one]

44. Ok

[Adrahil]

49. Did you read the article?

It actually mentions that in Arizona it is illegal to park a non-electric vehicle in an electric vehicle charging spot.

Tow 'em at the owners' expense.

[X_Digger]

52. Yes, and this happened in NC & TN. Not AZ. n/t

[DBoon]

28. If it is a private lot, the property owners can set parking rules

and can have violators towed.

They can't issue citations, but you can easily get towed by violating the rules set by the property owner.

[still_one]

35. In states such as AZ, Ca, Washington, etc they have EV laws, and these assholes not only can get a

citation and fine, but they can also be towed away

[still_one]

33. In California and other states it is. They are called EV Civil Codes.

[hunter]

38. I think it should be dealt with this way...

If you can't shove the offending vehicle out of the way, go through it.

[X_Digger]

43. Exigent circumstances. I doubt that'd work w/ charging stations.

I love it, but I doubt it'd fly.

[JI7]

17. that's what american conservatism is about

just assholes who think or makes them tough and "manly".

[DBoon]

31. Conservative ideology "pwning libs"

They only believe in pissing off liberals

[dalton99a]

50. +1. Stupid jealous trash:

[mainer]

21. How about we just take photos of license plates and post online to shame them?

At least there's something the public can do, by naming and shaming.

[JI7]

23. they are proud of it

[mainer]

36. Not when gas stations start banning them from premises

What good is a pickup truck if you can’t get gas?

[GaYellowDawg]

25. Thermite in a ceramic flowerpot

On the hood of the offending truck. Good luck parking anywhere after that.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

46. Just snip a couple valve stems if you don't have any thermite handy.

[TeamPooka]

29. and they wonder why they are "incels." :) nt

[llmart]

48. They're just jealous because they can't afford one.

[littlemissmartypants]

51. Plenty of a**hole rednecks to go around. I'd like to apologize

On the part of all reasonable alternative energy loving North Carolinians for this ignorant behavior.

[akraven]

53. There is a severe case of contagious DFI in this country.

Dumbfukitis.