A pair of Teslas caught fireplace and had been destroyed in San Francisco over the weekend simply weeks after a self-driving electrical automobile was torched in a close-by neighborhood, in response to authorities.
Over a 30-minute interval early Saturday morning, the San Francisco Hearth Division responded to 2 separate automobile fires in shut proximity, on Bonifacio Avenue close to Mabini Avenue and Shipley Avenue between 4th and fifth streets, officers stated.
The division extinguished the fires and started investigating no less than one as a suspected arson.
Video obtained by CBS Information Bay Space confirmed the origins of the second fireplace: an individual setting the white Tesla Mannequin Y ablaze round 12:45 a.m. The unidentified particular person ignited a fireplace in one of many wheel wells, inflicting your complete automobile to go up in flames inside minutes, the video reveals.
Van Vuong advised the native TV station that he was on his option to go play tennis Saturday morning when he noticed the burned automobile — and didn’t notice it was his.
“We simply sort of walked by it after which I assumed, ‘Shoot, the place’s my automobile?’” he stated. “Then I assumed, ‘No! That may’t be my automobile!’”
That torching got here half an hour after one other Tesla caught fireplace on Bonifacio Avenue only a block away, in response to the hearth division. The hearth division and police division didn’t say if the primary Tesla was additionally set on fireplace, although they had been investigating the fires collectively.
No arrests have been made within the Tesla burnings.
The incidents passed off simply over a mile from the place vandals torched and destroyed a self-driving Waymo electrical automobile throughout Lunar New 12 months celebrations in Chinatown earlier this month.
Movies posted on social media confirmed one particular person use a skateboard to crush the automobile’s home windows as its rooftop sensors continued to show.
Crime in San Francisco has been the goal of criticism by politicians and others, together with Tesla founder Elon Musk who has publicly referred to as the town the place his firm, X, relies “post-apocalyptic” and stated that you could possibly “actually movie a ‘Strolling Lifeless’ episode in downtown SF.”
