New Orleans’ Mardi Gras festival celebrates weirdness, but among the costumes, masks and bacchanalian partying, one newcomer at this year’s festivities was not welcome.
During one parade, five Tesla Cybertrucks transporting the event’s marshals were incessantly booed, surrounded and pelted with beer cans, rubbish and a barrage of Mardi Gras necklace beads.
Despite their tough reputation, two of the vehicles’ windows were cracked.
This is the guy that hit Amanda upside the head with the beads and shattered the B-Pillar glass trim. We are absolutely pressing charges. Unhinged hate and violence. He also berated the passengers and tried to break the windows and dent the truck. The latter which he failed to… https://t.co/FRlmkuJTap pic.twitter.com/xsOW8YJoha
— Josh “Pappy” Hazel (@JEHazel75) March 7, 2025
Patriotic American blows diesel exhaust fumes at Anti-Elon paid "protesters" standing out front of a Tesla dealership.
Can we see more of this happening?! pic.twitter.com/sNJtEkM3lB
— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) March 18, 2025
h/t DS
