We've had our second (third?) dose of vandalism. The car has been here what, three-four weeks now?
The first was this guy who pulls out the recharger plug (actually several times now) and stamps on the plug end. I've been able to straighten it out OK each time. This does point to why I wanted the wall plug box to be lockable though.
The second set of twits think they're very funny. Most likely drunk football players or something similar. They lifted up the car and set it down sideways over a nearby divider curb. Resting mostly on the battery box. Busted one of the mirror mounts. Actually I'm surprised that was the only real damage. Other than the two hours it took building ramps to get it out of there. Needed to replace the stock mirrors anyway.
Gotta be some serious brain damage there. It's parked in plain view of a main road, next to a bank with cameras, 1/2 block from the courthouse and 1 block from the police station. Ya gotta wonder...
To add to the fun the (presumably) same dipsticks that used to come by and bash the mirrors on the previous car seem to wander by weekly. Sometimes they just rotate, sometimes they break things. Edit: Couple days later: This time they broke the other end of the charge cable. Good thing I'm replacing it with something more robust.
The Menace made it 32 km this weekend and nothing broke!! Yea!
Not sure how long the windshield wiper system is gonna last though.
It has 190km and 11 charge cycles on it since we got it.
Edit: No more got done this weekend. A: it was raining and blowing the two times I went out there and B: I had work to do and practice for upcoming gigs.
