My Lightning was vandalized!

[Cbowe]

My Lightning started overheating after a day parked at the Alameda Ferry Terminal while we were in SF. I thought it had a failure … but Ford found something I never expected.

A cut a coolant line.

My Lightning Was Vandalized

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[Heliian]

They were probably looking for the catalytic converter. Wonder if anyone else was hit in the lot?

 

[Cbowe]

They were probably looking for the catalytic converter. Wonder if anyone else was hit in the lot?

I did a police report with Alameda PD. They investigated and also talked to the ferry operator. There were no reports. I also ran the crime reporting for that location and that parking lot for the entire year. I show the report in the video and they were only two reported crimes in that entire parking lot year to date surprisingly so either there really isn’t a lot of crime there or nobody reports it.

 

[B177y]

@Cbowe
To your first theory:
You are correct with your assessment and you did a good job of making your point without getting overly political. However, I lived in Alameda for 4 years and seriously doubt it was any anti-EV issues. To put it mildly, you were in extremely EV friendly territory.

To your second theory:
I think this is very likely. Just because there were no other crime reports doesn't mean that is a crime free area. One of the reasons I moved out of Alameda and CA in general is an overall tolerance of crime. Unfortunately for me, the place I moved to (WA) has quickly equaled or exceeded the CA crime tolerance.

You wrote this while I was typing:

so either there really isn’t a lot of crime there or nobody reports it

This. I think it's become too common to bother reporting as the petty crimes are basically tolerated or not worth the time to investigate.

 

[Cbowe]

Yeah that’s what I figured and I want to be sure and have it recorded even if nothing came of it

 

[Jim Lewis]

On following up on crime. In the 1970s, I lived in Washington Heights, Manhattan, up by the GW Bridge from NJ. The door to our apartment was busted open, and my camera gear was stolen. The cop writing up the report said, "Do you have any idea who may have done this?" I said, "No! (Are you kidding me?!)." He said, "I'm sorry. I'm going to have to write CASE CLOSED. When the amount involved is less than $10,000, and there are no leads to follow up on, we close the case, as we have so many other more pressing things to chase down and not enough resources..." So, I imagine a lot of other petty crimes meet a similar fate, even if they're reported as our burglary was. And with inflation since the 1970s, I can only imagine any financial cutoff limit for investigation has only increased since then...

 

[doggod]

they were trying to get gas from truck or copper wire.

 

[Cbowe]

If they would have gone after wiring it would have been a nightmare my first Lightning had to get a new wire harness (twice lol) and it was never the same after that

 

[doggod]

I would sell after the first replacement. Had to do some wiring on my MGA back in the day. It came down to needing a lot of rubber to separate any metal switch or light from the body. And it had two 6 volt batteries, one under each seat.

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