Meet Maria Elena Gimeno, facing felony charges after vandalizing a parked Tesla. Teslas have cameras on the wing mirrors (two of nine!) and Gimeno was filmed by them. She turned herself in after the footage went viral.
The crime took place in the parking lot of Legacy High School on Saturday morning while Alan Tweedie was watching his daughter's nearby soccer game. When Tweedie found his Tesla was damaged, he told CBS4 he'd try out a new feature on the vehicle. He looked back through the video captured by the car's nine motion-activated cameras and eventually spotted a woman using a key to scratch the side of his car.
No word on why she did it. The obvious and fun assumption is "inchoate hatred for electronic vehicles", but it was at a school ball game, so acts of inane violence and retribution are to be expected.
