EV charging cables cut off and stolen from chargers in Oakland

KTVU ^ | June 16, 2023 | Brooks Jarosz

[cgbg]

Silly me—I thought they were taking them to help stock the laboratory of advanced science experiments while they worked on their Physics PHDs!

[gibsonguy]

Ray Charles too

[dfwgator]

Ronny Milsap and Jose Feliciano, as well.

[adorno]

EV charging cables cut off and stolen from chargers in Oakland

It's called, equity sharing, or wealth sharing. Might as well have put a few pounds of gold out there in the open.

The EV charge station makers, and electric vehicle makers, are going to have to makes deals with the thieves, and promise them cash payments for every EV charge station left unharmed.

[lavaroise]

Here in Qatar they have very few. The ev chargers have to be cooled with an AC unit each! What a waste!!!!

It is ridiculous

[lavaroise]

Cali cities more and more look like Cape Town by the dqy

God forbid these lunatics take charge of America...

[pierrem15]

In my condo building a few years ago they broke into the garage and sawed copper water pipes off the ceiling that had water pressure.

Just stealing the copper Americans won't steal.

[Navy Patriot]

EV charging cables cut off and stolen from chargers in Oakland

Excellent!

It's good to know that Oakland's programs to provide income to people in "need", the "homeless", people of "color" and "clean" energy are so "successful".

[lavaroise]

“We recharge and protect” the environment (aka we are the enemies)

[US_MilitaryRules]

And the EV manufacturers will just put them somewhere easy to steal off the car like catalytic converters! lol

[Danie_2023]

“God forbid these lunatics take charge of America...”

Um....

nevermind.

[cgbg]

The majority of these crimes are “disorganized” druggies—they would take the bribe and steal the stuff anyway.

[dennisw]

This is tragedy! For EV owners in Oakland, California. If there are any in that god forsaken town.
For EV owners just passing through, and needing a jolt. Go to Berkley for your charging.

[dfwgator]

“You’ll never take me alive, Coppers!”

[cgbg]

Imagine running out of battery power in the middle of the Caldecott Tunnel during rush hour....the stuff of nightmares.

[Obadiah]

and Baltimore and Atlanta...

[Hot Tabasco]

"Why would somebody do something like that?"

Scrappers and the copper....and it ain't gonna stop

[dfwgator]

“Just got New York, I’m told!”

[Jim Noble]

Good point, although the elites in Finland are trying hard to import some Oakland from Mother Africa, just to catch up with the USA.

The question isn't "why would someone do that?"

The question is, what kind of idiot would install publicly accessible charging stations in a place like Oakland?

[Dilbert San Diego]

The answer is there is no legitimate reason why this happens.

The answer is the youth gangs another assorted criminal types do things like this. Sometimes they can make money dealing in stolen merchandise, and sometimes they do vandalism just for the hell of it. These types of people do not do productive things in their lives, so instead they do destructive things.

Their thought process is beyond the frame of reference of many of us . There is no legitimate reason to do these things that they do.