Another Sentry success story: Car keyed, women handcuffed and charged with vandalism

[mobilesuit818]

Another solid reason to get PPF on the doors...

 

[GolanB]

Those scratches ran deep, there is no way to get down to the metal without applying solid pressure. This is the second case I've heard of now with Sentry Mode identifying an individual doing damage. In the first case, it was a passenger of an adjacent car, and as far as I understood from the owner (another user on this forum), the police filed the reports and they're going after the driver's insurance. Whether or not she had criminal intent, he is likely still going to be covered - the only difference here is whether or not he wants to press additional charges.

 

[mrbulk]

Maybe she owed some venom to the driver of that car:

“I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped-up four wheel drive” - Carrie Underwood

 

[Runebane]

/edit never mind, reading comprehension for the lose in this case

 

[Jbidwal]

This is a good benefit of having a Tesla and I wish other manufacturers start installing cameras. My 3 month old navigator got door damage by someone on purpose. I had to pay a grand to get it repainted.

 

[MrMassTransit]

She was not in operation of her vehicle at the time she caused the "loss". Her insurance company won't touch this with a 50 ft. pole.

Fair enough but she still would be civilly liable. She’d just have to pay out of pocket.

So if you open the door of your vehicle and damage another car that isn’t covered by your insurance since you were not operating your vehicle? Never been in that situation so I honestly don’t know. She was loading the vehicle so I’d assume it is an analgous situation but maybe that is not something covered by auto insurance. I am definitely not an expert.

 

[ModelNforNerd]

Fair enough but she still would be civilly liable. She’d just have to pay out of pocket.

So if you open the door of your vehicle and damage another car that isn’t covered by your insurance since you were not operating your vehicle? Never been in that situation so I honestly don’t know. She was loading the vehicle so I’d assume it is an analgous situation but maybe that is not something covered by auto insurance. I am definitely not an expert.

that would be covered, because the vehicle would have actually caused the issue. For insurance purposes, a set of keys is not considered the car.

 

[gilscales]

Maybe she owed some venom to the driver of that car:

“I dug my key into the side of his pretty little souped-up four wheel drive” - Carrie Underwood

“Carved my name into his Vegan seats”

 

[mrbulk]

“Carved my name into his Vegan seats”

“I took a Louisville slugger to both headlights, but those damn LEDs come back on every time.”

 

[VQTRVA]

Looks like an accident to me. I bet she gets off.

Let me claw your car's paint & see how you feel.

 

[flashflooder]

This video inspired me to start using sentry mode regularly.

 

[gilscales]

We need those sentry mode updates asap as my wife will not turn it on every time she parks

 

[Beaver]

This video inspired me to start using sentry mode regularly.

It needs to be able to be set to always on and configurable if it is on at home.

 

[gilscales]

It needs to be able to be set to always on and configurable if it is on at home.

Elon tweet confirms that is happening

Elon Musk on Twitter

 

[Raechris]

Vandalism is covered under comprehensive (at least in MA) along with all non collision damage e.g. hail, fire, theft, animal.

No words for that kind of person

DONT feed the trolls

 

[Beaver]

Vandalism is covered under comprehensive (at least in MA) along with all non collision damage e.g. hail, fire, theft, animal.

No words for that kind of person

DONT feed the trolls

I am in Illinois and 3 years ago had to street park my 2012 Camry hybrid for one night. I live in a northwest suburb of Chicago with little crime.
That night my car windows were busted out. It end up being $2200 damage and I had to pay our deductible.
3 other cars in the area were also vandalized that night. Shitty people out having “fun”. Everyone from the tow truck driver to body shop were pissed off. I heard so many times “who does this?”

FYI it was over 2 grand because they also caused some body damage.

 

[ninpb]

I've all kinds of weird stuff happen to my cars - keyed, vandalized, etc. - but the most annoying (and admittedly a little funny) was something that happened to my motorcycle. I had it parked with my helmet locked to it (used to be common back in the day when all bikes seemingly had a special locking mechanism to put your helmet rings through), and someone took a very large blueberry muffin and crumbled it into a few thousand pieces into my helmet. Fortunately it was dry and 99% of fell out when I shook it and turned it over, but I still like WTF why would someone even think of doing that?! People is dumb.

That was... crumby.

 

[AudubonB]

I'd like some corroboration other than a "Read it on Reddit" that the woman was apprehended and handcuffed. If true, it shouldn't be difficult to get a police log, etc.

 

[MarcoRP]

Looks like an accident to me. I bet she gets off.

Finally he’s off this forum! No need to dislike as many posts.

 

[ModelNforNerd]

I'd like some corroboration other than a "Read it on Reddit" that the woman was apprehended and handcuffed. If true, it shouldn't be difficult to get a police log, etc.

Shouldn't be that hard for you to Google it if you're that concerned.

Please report back and let us know what you find.