Featured Tesla driver shoots and kills another one over supercharger station

Maybe when the Tesla supercharger stations around here are set up with the CCS adapters, I'll think twice about using them.

 

This exactly.....is why I had to leave Colorado. So Sad. (and I've been a CCW holder for over 10 years.)

 

(sigh ....) once again our beloved op tries to paint the picture of all ev's (especially Tesla) of the world as being evil electric. lol truth of the matter is over 100 to one per 100 million miles of incidence. Consider the following within just the past few days that the OP fails to deliberately mention;

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True fortitude - where an anti ev'er never gives up relating stories that will hopefully somehow kill ev sales. Can't wait for the next bit o ridiculous irrelevance
Would it be better to just playcate the nonsense and say, "oh wow yes we must stop electric car production" ??
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Perhaps the two were arguing over the delivery of weed? Or distribution to the correct cartel members? Kickbacks are high for the best delivery person. That is known. GAS Stations are KNOWN to be hotspots for robbery. Tesla owners have money, "Lets go rob them!"
I gassed up at Costco in Colorado. Lots of people in line. Only getting gas, (not other things) and an attendant and my CCW. (and never at night.)

 

How is this Prius, hybrid, EV, or alt fuel news? Gun use isn't limited to any of those.

 

True. I guess it is violence at a EV Charging location? The two are just a coincidence? News yes but maybe it should be moved in a different area?

 

That's more of a result of an argument with perhaps a dash or two of self-entitlement....
I think what the EVangelists are trying to point out is that you're many times more likely to be assaulted at a gas station than you are at a supercharger station.
For one thing, the would-be criminal isn't likely to want to hang out and wait until the car is charged.
Usually the person charging the car is either inside the Whole Food store or they're actually inside the car with their phone in their hand being triggered by something on the internet.
Also, most of the supercharging stations are cashless, and even behind the tinsel curtain, Teslas still stand out a little.

SO...
Even though it's much more likely that Tucker Carlson will be replacing Whoopi Goldberg on the View than it would be that the person inside a charging Tesla has a firearm, it's still not an inviting place for a car jacker to be.

ON THE OTHER HAND.....
A Corolla with a nozzle sticking out of it's hip at a gas station is like an ATM for car jackers.
You KNOW that the car will be full of gas in like....a minute, and that the owner has their wallet or pocket-book AND the key fob WITH THEM at the time.
Sometimes?
They even go inside and leave the motor running for you.
In under a minute, you're gone - blending effortlessly into the landscape littered with a BUCNH of other small egg-shaped FWD imports and hopefully not with a sleeping toddler in the cargo bay.

A gas station is one of the very few places that I almost never carry concealed.
SO far so good.
I haven't had to put the pump nozzle down yet.

 

So. People and argue and kill over parking spots. One of the parties driving a Tesla, or one parked close by has no relevance to the incidence. Lines and rude behavior at a gas station could easily lead to such an outcome.

Luckily, neither had a gun in this case.
Two charged after gas station line fight amid panic-buying
"The man and woman argued over spots in the line and each spat in the other’s face before the fight turned physical and a cellphone was damaged, police said."

 

yes - it'd be like someone wanting to bring up their unrelated topic / favorite car so they say, "it's going to rain tomorrow so my HYBRID CAR may get wet".

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Perhaps the only thing more vile than gun worship via the hate-based brainwashed amongst 330 million of the USA that is about to hit 1/2 billion guns owned is the ----> sensationalist corporate TV News objective of "If it bleeds it ledes."

It's truly an out of control feedback loop of shock & awe inspiring ever more fear and loathing... So don't go anywhere or leave your house. Just let your fears rule and give all the corporations all your money and shut up. (aka: range anxiety means many things when you got so many gun worshipers living out their wrongly projected desire to fire off their load.)

Or rather, imagine something better... As in:

"Pronoia is the antidote for paranoia. It's the understanding that the universe is fundamentally friendly. It's a mode of training your senses and intellect so you're able to perceive the fact that life always gives you exactly what you need, exactly when you need it." TOP 25 QUOTES BY ROB BREZSNY (of 78) | A-Z Quotes

 

One presumes.

I've been in a few arguments with people while armed.
Not that many, of course, since I don't go around LOOKING for a reason to get into OR SUSTAIN arguments.

Generally speaking, I look for ways and means to DE-escalate the very few confrontations I'm forced to deal with.

 

One presumes.

I've been in a few arguments with people while armed.
Not that many, of course, since I don't go around LOOKING for a reason to get into OR SUSTAIN arguments.

Generally speaking, I look for ways and means to DE-escalate the very few confrontations I.

 

While far less fashionable and 'newsworthy', several parking space combatants around here have proved that the car itself makes a very effective weapon.

 

I am intrigued.
Were you under the impression everyone near a Tesla charging station is somehow immune from anger?

If a shooting makes a type of location “perilous” then lots of other places are “perilous”.
Such places would include Schools, offices, post offices, movie theaters, bars, restaurants, single family homes, apartment buildings, sports arenas, shopping malls, parks, oh, and Toyota dealerships (https://www.mystateline.com/news/police-investigating-death-at-loves-park-toyota-dealership/).

Unfortunately, when you define something so widespread as “perilous” you basically render the term meaningless.

 

Man that is awful. But I am not surprised .I had several instances of road rage in Colorado all involved men 20-40 years of age who went berserk over not being able to get around me in traffic. Honking, cursing and flipping me off. I remained calm. This just made them madder. I'm pretty sure they were looking for confrontation. I just de-escalated it by ignoring them..even when one zoomed past me and ran into a street sign messed his car up......and then speed away. People are in their own "entitled" bubble... Does that neighbor have a fire extinguisher in his house? I hope so to protect himself from kitchen or grill fires...he might was to think about personal protection and self defense tools. Maybe he will now. I hope he heals and takes steps to safeguard himself. Maybe not honking at others? at a bare minumum?
Either way I'm sorry that he had to experience that.