Tesla owner fights back with warning to Cybertruck vandal, vows to 'make an example' of suspect

As protests against Elon Musk's Tesla marque are sweeping the United States, 1 California man's consciousness of information is near shaken aft a masked fishy was caught connected camera defacing his family’s Tesla Cybertruck successful the driveway of their location past weekend. 

Jason Bedell, a 51-year-old moving successful spot management, awoke to shattered solid aft what seemed to beryllium a onslaught turned his Cybertruck into the latest awesome of anti-Musk rhetoric sweeping the country. 

"I person a 4-year-old lad that was sleeping successful the location astatine the time," Bedell said. "So, it's truly unsettling that idiosyncratic came to my location to bash this."

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Bedell was 1 of the archetypal radical successful Novato to bargain a Tesla Cybertruck, and the conveyance arrived successful February 2024. Bedell bought his archetypal Tesla, a Model S, successful 2015 and continues to thrust it to this day. 

When Musk archetypal introduced the Cybertruck, Bedell fell successful emotion with the unsocial look and the vehicle's features. 

"I'm conscionable specified a instrumentality of Tesla that I had to person one," Bedell said.

Bedell keeps the conveyance parked successful the driveway of his home, wherever helium lives with his woman and son. The location is located successful a cul-de-sac with nary done traffic, according to Bedell. 

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The fishy threw a factual artifact astatine the Cybertruck’s windshield earlier slashing each 4 tires and fleeing, according to Jason Bedell. (Courtesy of Jason Bedell)

Last weekend, Bedell's household car turned into a people of a governmental protest. 

"This idiosyncratic made a planned onslaught and came to my location and executed that plan," Bedell told Fox News Digital. "That's fundamentally declaring warfare connected maine and my property."

Bedell was dormant successful his Novato location erstwhile his information cameras detected a masked intruder successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday morning. The idiosyncratic appeared to lawsuit Bedell’s location earlier returning astir an hr aboriginal with a factual artifact and duct tape. 

"They took 1 of the pieces of portion and covered up 1 of the aggregate Ring cameras connected my property," Bedell said. "They proceeded implicit to the Cybertruck, wherever they went astir and rapidly slashed each 4 of the tires. Then they went to the beforehand of the truck, picked up a elephantine cement ceramic and threw it 2 oregon 3 times against the beforehand windshield, smashing [it]." 

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The fishy rapidly ran off, but not earlier leaving a enactment connected 1 of the tires that said, "replace each tires, unsafe to drive." 

The masked menace remains connected the escaped arsenic Novato Police hunt for the offender successful Bedell’s Cybertruck onslaught and a 2nd fishy successful different incidental involving a Tesla vehicle, according to authorities. 

The Novato Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for further information. 

The onslaught comes arsenic anti-Musk protests stone the nation.

For Bedell, the contented isn’t political. It’s personal. 

"It’s 1 happening if they did it to maine astatine the store, astatine the slope oregon thing similar that," Bedell said. "But to motorboat a planned onslaught similar this connected my spot is truly scary."

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Security footage shows the fishy utilizing a factual artifact and duct portion to vandalize a Tesla Cybertruck successful Novato, Calif., March 29, 2025. (Novato Police Department)

The family’s Cybertruck was vandalized during an organized Global Day of Protest, erstwhile thousands of protesters took to the streets astir the satellite to protestation astatine Tesla showrooms, charging stations and properties wherever Teslas are located. 

Bedell believes the timing was not a coincidence. 

"I bash judge the timing had thing to bash with this large play of protests," Bedell said. 

Incidents involving Tesla vehicles person plagued the state arsenic disgruntled protesters crook connected the institution to explicit their displeasure with Musk. 

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Demonstrators smash Tesla artifact cars successful protestation against Tesla and CEO Elon Musk extracurricular a Tesla store successful New York City March 29, 2025.  (Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)

Earlier this week, a Colorado antheral was arrested and is facing national charges for allegedly firebombing a Tesla dealership, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi. 

"Let this beryllium a informing – you tin run, but you cannot hide," Bondi said successful a video message. "Justice is coming."

On March 24, Kerri Pouliot shared surveillance footage of a antheral dragging a cardinal crossed her family’s Cybertruck successful a New Hampshire parking lot. 

Two days later, a Las Vegas antheral was charged successful an alleged Molotov cocktail onslaught that ignited astatine slightest 5 Tesla vehicles astatine a section collision halfway successful mid-March. 

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Five Tesla vehicles were acceptable connected occurrence and changeable astatine successful what constabulary are investigating arsenic a "targeted attack" astatine a repair halfway successful Las Vegas March 18. (Hal Sparks via Storyful)

After the caller drawstring of violence, FBI Director Kash Pash launched a task unit to analyse and prosecute offenders, vowing to bring protesters to justice. 

"Director Patel has been unequivocally clear. The FBI volition beryllium relentless successful its ngo to support the American people," the FBI said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. "Acts of violence, vandalism and home coercion — similar the caller Tesla attacks — volition beryllium pursued with the afloat unit of the law."

President Donald Trump besides weighed successful connected the Tesla vandalism, saying, "I look guardant to watching the sick violent thugs get 20-year jailhouse sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla. Perhaps they could service them successful the prisons of El Salvador, which person go truthful precocious celebrated for specified beauteous conditions."

To Bedell, the onslaught has uprooted his consciousness of community. 

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"It's not a governmental symbol. It's conscionable a car," Bedell told Fox News Digital. "Most radical bought these cars mode earlier the election, mode earlier Elon Musk, earlier immoderate of this happened. It's not a governmental symbol. It has thing to bash with my governmental views. It's conscionable a car. I'm trying to prevention the situation and beryllium environmentally conscious, and present I'm getting backlash for it. It's conscionable the incorrect people for people’s hostilities, frustrations and anger." 

Tesla did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

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Bedell is offering a $25,000 reward for accusation starring to the Cybertruck vandal’s arrest, a determination helium hopes volition deter aboriginal offenders and amusement solidarity successful his California assemblage arsenic helium is near feeling "violated." 

"I don't cognize if they're going to travel back. I don't cognize what they're going to do," Bedell told Fox News Digital. "This idiosyncratic is dangerous. I'm definite I'm not the archetypal person, and I'm not going to beryllium the past idiosyncratic [they are] going to bash it to. I americium acceptable connected getting this idiosyncratic caught and making an illustration retired of this person." 

Fox News Digital's Preston Mizell contributed to this report.