Posted on 03/21/2022 4:04:26 PM PDT by Phoenix8
A $1,000 reward is up for grabs for whoever leads Los Angeles police to a TikTok user they say is responsible for a stunt gone wrong involving a Tesla.
A viral video posted to YouTube shows a black 2018 Tesla S-BLM launching 50 feet into the air before crashing into parked cars in the Echo Park neighborhood. It happened Saturday night, according to FOX 11 Los Angeles.
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Now I see young people spending thousands of dollars building up a vehicle to see how steep of a hill it can climb, then tumble down—this is even worse.
“a black 2018 Tesla S-BLM”
Nice of Tesla to make a Black Lives Matter edition.
In 2018? Was BLM a thing in 2018 or 2017?
Say the word. They are a suspect, not a “person of interest”. That term, popularized by FBI frameups and hit TV shows for housewives has -zero- legal meaning.
Well, I was kidding... but I first heard of them around 2014 in the context of the phony “Hands up, don’t shoot” narrative concerning the Michael Brown incident in Ferguson.
There was a “launch spot” in my area that we played with in high school. Not as launchable as the spot in the article though.
And if you screwed up, you’d hit the berms and trees around the road, destroying your own stuff, not somebody else’s vehicle or home.
We were such considerate kids! (not really)
Here is a much, much more detailed video.
Im also just a little suspicious the producer of this video really just “showed up” because he “heard” something was going to happen then got in a perfect location to tape it.
Never heard of a Tesla S-BLM.
Rental
A Tesla Strategic-BaLlistic Missile
She drive fast and she drives hard.
Driver forgot to enable ‘Full Self Flying’ mode
Duh
The terror of Colorado Blvd.....
That’s because they can earn tens of thousands of dollars if they get millions of views. It’s worth it to them to destroy a $50,000 car and earn $200,000 in views.
Car was rented.
I saw that.
I was just speaking in principle as to why somebody would buy a Bugatti and spend tens of thousands in modifying it and then throw it off a cliff.
They think they will profit from the views.
It’s a strange kind of economics at work to make money on YouTube.
Here is a video...
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