New Orleans, Louisiana hosts a massive, boozy shindig every year. It’s Mardi Gras, home to millions of visitors with a riotous good time on their minds. However, it’s also home to some questionable decision-making, like showering a black Tesla Cybertruck with beads and glow sticks. NOLA might be “The Big Easy,” but it’s not that easy-going when you try driving your 6,600-lb EV truck through a horde of Mardi Gras-goers.  

A video captured Mardi Gras party-goers in New Orleans throwing a barrage of beads, trash, and drinks at a Tesla Cybertruck

A video captured the moment an entire street turned against a Tesla Cybertruck. In the video, a black-clad Cybertruck slowly rolls onto Jackson Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana. However, the electric pickup truck is on the street for mere seconds before angry Mardi Gras fans began bombarding the hulking pickup truck with everything they could throw.

As you might expect from drunk and rowdy Mardi Gras party-goers, the ammunition of choice was mostly the holiday’s characteristically colorful beads. The crowd showered the Cybertruck with the plastic necklaces, bouncing them off the pickup truck’s angular body paneling. Troublingly, some of the crowd’s less coordinated participants missed the truck entirely, launching beads across the street.

Whether or not the act was a gag, the Tesla Cybertruck owner will have a surplus of beaded necklaces, considering the ones hanging from the wing mirrors and on the truck’s long, sloped rear panels.

The act is just one of the latest in a string of anti-Tesla demonstrations. Protesters across the country are assembling outside the brand’s storefront locations in defiance of Tesla’s controversial CEO, Elon Musk. What’s more, some less conventional forms of protest include vehicles projecting images on Cybertruck tailgates. In this case, it’s New Orleans party-goers letting their beads do the talking.

Check out the video of the bead-throwing party-goers below!