While I don't generally use public charging and if so only in the suburbs in say a free Chargepoint, my brother who lives in the city said several of the free Chargepoint chargers he frequents have begun having the cable cut off by copper thieves
I mean these businesses are nice enough to provide a service, making nothing on it and a small segment of the public does something like this! It makes me really lose faith in the world for sure
well that and the fact my daughter got her catalytic converter cut out of her car while parked in a student parking lot near the city and people are apparently stealing newer Hyundai cars as once you break in them via busting out the rear window a dishonest person can easily "hot wire" them and just last night on the news they said people have figured out a way to somewhat easily read the FOB codes on popular Honda cars and clone them, and later steal them
Really makes me want to find a better place to live!
Listen, I'm not living in a dreamland saying we haven't had issues like this in the past but the extreme to which people will go seems to be getting worse. People have always stolen cars but that's because oftentimes people didn't lock them up or they were very easy to hotwire, nowadays no lock is a match for a hammer to a window. Now you could say(and people are) that if the vehicle was only more secure to start people wouldn't be able to start them and to a degree that's true, but where does it stop. Everything has its vulnerabilities and people will exploit them and with the internet and some people's lack of morals or values that vulnerability can be shared instantly with other such like-minded people in a very short period of time. No need to bunk with a criminal in a prison cell to learn tricks of the trade, just logon to the internet, do some searching and you'll easily learn how to steal a car and if parts are required to do it, logon to another site and an unscrupulous seller will be more than willing sell you the tools that back in the day, say of certain mechanical lock tools to aid in bypassing locks, there seemed to be very little oversite.
I am truly worried about the world our kids will inherit, I hope my worries are unfounded and many don't seem worried but time will tell.