Tesla Cybertruck owners may have the pleasure of driving one of trendiest new vehicles on the road, but it hasn’t been all glitz and glamour, as they receive a bizarre warning about their trucks.
The Cybertruck’s bed vault has been mistaken for a dumpster by hungry raccoons.
The raccoon incident occurred while the Cybertruck owner was on a camping trip in Minnesota.
A person claiming to be an owner of the Tesla model wrote in a forum that all he had in his Cybertruck at the time was a ‘bag of unopened chips in a closed storage box,’ and coffee.
‘I do think the Cybertruck, in a certain light, looks exactly like a dumpster,’ writer Aaron Turpen told Cowboy State Daily this month.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been credited with developing Cybertrucks – a battery-electric truck that was first delivered to customers last year.
All Cybertrucks come with a tonneau cover, which protects the vehicle’s cargo bed from water or other things that could cause harm.
One owner, who was visiting Myre Big Island, noticed paw prints on his vehicle, which he believed belonged to a raccoon.
‘Those do look like huge prints in the picture, but they were actually a series of smaller prints that were smeared. It was quite wet in the area,’ the owner wrote on his July 12 post.
The camper added: ‘They’re crafty, ruthless suckers. We saw them scheming in the evening before the crime.’
Patane, a Cybertruck enthusiast, insisted the tonneau cover is an ‘easy fix.’
Raccoons, which Reddit users call ‘trash pandas,’ are often dumpster divers that eat almost everything, according to the City of Bremerton.
Humans frequently spot these animals in garbage cans or dumpsters rummaging for food, especially in urban areas.
Racoons hunt for food frequently, and if necessary, they can travel for miles just to find something to nibble on.
‘There must have been something in the vehicle that drew them in,’ Patricia Wyer of Broken Bandit Wildlife Center told Cowboy State Daily.
Despite the owner claiming he only had chips and coffee in the Cybertruck, Wyer guessed that the raccoon could’ve attempted to break in because of marshmallows.
‘I’m pretty sure there were marshmallows in the Cybertruck because raccoons really love marshmallows,’ the wildlife rescuer said.
‘They love the sweet flavor of them. We call marshmallows ‘magic white fluffberries’ here at the rescue center.’
While some Cybertruck enthusiasts claimed their vault beds are ‘racoon-proof,’ others had a more scathing review.
‘Thats a staggering amount of damage, entirely because of bad design,’ tweeted an X user.
‘An exposed rubber seal that takes direct sunlight and, when compromised, exposes the contents of the trunk? This is astonishing.’