One man just lately spent fairly a while keying a number of automobiles in an Alameda, California car parking zone. Sadly for him although, a kind of automobiles was a Tesla with Sentry Mode. Not lengthy after he was captured damaging the automotive on the built-in Tesla digicam system, he was captured by the police.

First featured on the Youtube channel WhamBamTeslaCam, this story begins with a random, but unnamed particular person in a ballcap and face masks strolling as much as the aspect of a white Tesla and keying it. What’s even perhaps stranger is that the identical particular person then returns shortly thereafter. When he does, it appears as if he rubs the newly-made injury along with his hand.

Whether or not he’s checking to see how deep the scratch is or attempting to make it look as if it wasn’t very contemporary is one thing we will’t be sure of. What we do know is that he repeats the method a variety of occasions and appears to be wiping on the floor of the Tesla earlier than leaving the scene once more.

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Oddly sufficient he returns once more, this time in barely completely different clothes and we get an opportunity to see that he’s really parked simply two areas away from the Tesla. He’s caught on extra of the Tesla’s cameras as a result of he circles the automobile, this time with out a face masks on. As he walks across the driver’s aspect of the automotive he really keys a Jeep Wrangler Limitless sitting subsequent to it.

At that time, the particular person will get again in his 2018 Cadillac XT5 and drives away. Having seen the footage not lengthy after it happened, the Tesla proprietor had a hunch that the perpetrator may nonetheless be within the car parking zone and certain sufficient, that was the case. As soon as the offender was positioned, the Tesla proprietor known as the police and confirmed them the video on the spot.

Shortly thereafter, the vandal was in police custody and the Tesla proprietor pressed costs; as for the injury to the Tesla, it ended up totaling $4,800. Nonetheless, this isn’t an remoted incident. There are fairly a variety of movies on-line that includes people damaging Tesla automobiles and being caught by Sentry mode.