Before and after: Aerial photos show what being Elon Musk's neighbor can do to your land
Cards Against Humanity, which owns land in Texas, is suing the space billionaire to “un-fuck” its property and reputation, to the tune of $15 million.
Whoever had “Cards Against Humanity sues Elon Musk’s SpaceX” on their 2024 bingo card, you win. This month the party game company filed a lawsuit seeking $15 million in damages from SpaceX for trespassing and dumping on its land as well as interfering in its business relationships.
In case you’re wondering how this strange clash between a card game and a cartoon billionaire came to be: Cards Against Humanity (CAH) originally purchased a property along the Texas-Mexico border in August 2017 in an attempt to thwart then-president Donald Trump’s border wall. It raised $2.25 million from supporters ($15 each from 150,000 people) to pay for the land as well as to secure a law firm that specializes in eminent domain to “make it as time-consuming and expensive as possible for Trump to build his wall.”
Since the purchase, CAH has gotten new neighbors — and problems with a new billionaire. Musk’s SpaceX, which has a launch facility 3 miles away, has since purchased the plots of land on either side of CAH. (A spokesperson for CAH said they didn’t know when those transactions took place and SpaceX did not immediately respond to requests for comment.)
