--- title: "Cybertruck Owner Brutally Mocked by Dozens of Kids After Breaking Down at Baseball Practice" description: "Few things in this world are more brutal than the mockery of children — and an Ohio Cybertruck owner has learned that the hardest way." date: "2025-05-13" modified: "2025-05-13" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-owner-mocked-children" categories: - "Advanced Transport" tags: - "cybertruck" - "glitches" - "tesla" - "the digest" --- # Cybertruck Owner Brutally Mocked by Dozens of Kids After Breaking Down at Baseball Practice ![A man is embarrassed after being laughed at for his Cybertruck]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## Get Frunk Few things in this world are more brutal than the [mockery of children]() — and an Ohio Cybertruck owner has learned that the hardest way. As [flagged by the *Torque News*]() automotive blog, a member of the "Tesla Cybertruck Owner" Facebook group was in for some massive embarrassment when his car's "frunk" (or: front-mounted trunk) refused to open at his son's baseball game. The Ohio man told his fellow Cybertruck owners that the trouble began when he was just trying to be a good dad and take his 10-year-old to his little league baseball match. Naturally, he'd put the boy's gear in the frunk, which had always, per her reckoning, been a bit "misaligned slightly." When it refused to open, all hell seemingly broke loose. https://www.twitter.com/StonkKing4/status/1921620951847801249 ## Damn Daniel "My son’s baseball bag was in there, and the freaking latch decided to allow an inch or two of up-and-down movement but not actually unlatch," the man wrote. "I was going to make the 39-minute drive to get another glove back at the house, only to find that despite the frunk not being able to open, the truck was aware it was not fully closed and retracted." At this point, the man described, the Cybertruck's attempts to fix the glitch resulted in the dreaded "[Limp Mode]()," which meant it couldn't travel faster than 15 miles per hour. Lots of swearing and resets ensued, apparently to little effect. Eventually, Tesla service got in touch with the embarrassed Ohio father — but not before all his son's friends, who just a few hours prior thought his Cybertruck was badass, began to mock him. "After all the screen resets and power shutdown cycles, it was sent to the service center on a flatbed," the man wrote. "I was stuck with a $50 Uber bill, and 28 ten-year-old kids went from thinking the Cybertruck was the coolest vehicle to pointing and laughing as it was towed away on a flatbed truck." Life comes at you fast — especially, it seems, when you get clowned on by a bunch of Little Leaguers for driving a janky Tesla. **More on Cyberstuck:** [*Tesla Shows Off Cheaper and Slower Cybertruck That's an Even Worse Deal*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()