A 78-year-old man from The Villages, Florida, Glen Lee Ong, was arrested on Oct. 9 after allegedly damaging his surgeon’s Tesla with a hammer. Police say Ong was angry his surgery had been called off because he took a sip of water, which went against his preoperative instructions.
As detailed in a probable cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime, police responded to a medical building after getting a call about a damaged Tesla. The surgeon told officers his co-workers heard two loud bangs, and the vehicle was found with two indentations on the windshield, about $1,600 worth of damage.
The Tesla itself captured the incident on video. The footage appears to show a suspect wearing a surgical mask getting out of a red pickup truck, walking up to the car with a hammer, and hitting the windshield twice before driving off.
Police say Ong blamed the surgeon for calling off his operation
The surgeon later identified the suspect as Ong, describing him as a “difficult patient.” When officers went to Ong’s home, he initially denied being a patient at the facility, knowing the doctor, or owning the red Chevrolet pickup seen in the video, WFTV reported. The Villages has seen other arrests draw attention this year, including a woman who was sentenced to 90 days after using her car to threaten cyclists…