This is not a joke but a real story that happened a few days ago in Lake Worth, Florida.

A Florida guy left his Tesla Model 3 on a homeowner’s lawn for 12 hours to charge using his electricity without asking for permission and walked off in the middle of the night. The downside of driving electric vehicles is that unlike gas stations, there are not charging stations every few miles. That was the reason a man decided it was OK for him to plug his Tesla Model 3 into a random person’s electrical outlet on the outside of their home. He not only unashamedly stole someone’s electricity without the owner’s knowledge, but the intruder also decided that the other person’s lawn would be a good place to park.

It was reported the story occurred last Friday just south of West Palm Beach. The Model 3 owner said the police his car’s battery ran out of power and he had to charge up. So he figured, the best decision he could make was to pull up onto a stranger’s front lawn and stretch a 120-volt cord to an external outlet and walked off to party with friends in the middle of the night leaving the car for 12 hours.

said he waited several hours for the car’s owner to return before calling the police, who then tracked down the owner’s address and waited some more for the man to show up. He showed up, didn’t apologize, was told he’d committed a crime, and that was that. What’s more, he didn’t pay Fraumeni a red cent for the free charge.

Fraumeni reportedly waited several hours for the car’s owner to return before calling the police, who then tracked down the owner. Around noon, the owners, a man, and a woman showed up to get their car, didn’t apologize to Fraumeni or offer to reimburse him for the electricity they “borrowed”. Luckily, Fraumeni decided to drop the trespassing charges.

According to Autoblog.