Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing on its ‘pristine’ property

Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX for allegedly trespassing connected and damaging its spot successful Texas. The institution down the paper crippled is asking for $15 cardinal successful damages, according to its complaint against SpaceX, filed successful Texas authorities tribunal connected Thursday, but has besides said it volition “accept Twitter.com successful compensation.” 

SpaceX has been utilizing the “pristine vacant property” successful Cameron County, Texas without support for astir six months, the suit claims. Cards Against Humanity bought the crippled successful 2017 arsenic portion of a stunt to “make it arsenic time-consuming and costly arsenic imaginable for [former President Donald] Trump to physique his wall.” SpaceX has since acquired “many of the vacant lots” connected the roadworthy surrounding Cards Against Humanity’s property, the ailment claims, and started gathering “large modern-looking buildings, changing the full dynamic of the area” — and damaging Cards Against Humanity’s onshore successful the process.

As portion of the operation process, SpaceX has cleared vegetation, compacted the ungraded truthful employees and contractors could park, and brought successful generators to tally instrumentality and lights. These actions, the ailment claims, person not lone damaged the spot but besides wounded Cards Against Humanity’s narration with its customers.

Cards Against Humanity’s 2017 acquisition of the onshore was a crowdfunded effort, with 150,000 supporters chipping successful $15 each, the suit says, and is indicative of the company’s broader narration with its customers and supporters. “Part of CAH’s method to support this protagonist narration — and ongoing spot that they volition proceed to basal up against injustice — is the usage of humorous ‘pranks’ oregon ‘stunts’ that gully attraction to peculiar issues oregon radical who disregard the rights and problems of regular radical for their ain idiosyncratic enrichment oregon aggrandizement,” the ailment says. But SpaceX’s alleged trespassing connected Cards Against Humanity’s spot has damaged the company’s “most precious plus successful the signifier form of its existent narration and the prospective narration successful the future” with its customers by “creating the content that determination is immoderate relation betwixt CAH and SpaceX.”

Other reports suggest that Cards Against Humanity isn’t the lone neighbour with whom SpaceX has a troubled relationship. Reuters, which first reported the lawsuit, spoke with residents of Boca Chica — a small, distant colony SpaceX has attempted to rechristen Starbase — who said SpaceX workers tore down a motion and removed a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe successful the town. One Boca Chica nonmigratory told Reuters that SpaceX offered to bargain her 2 homes for $340,000.

Cards Against Humanity claims SpaceX besides offered to bargain Cameron County property. “Elon Musk’s SpaceX was gathering immoderate abstraction happening nearby, and helium figured helium could conscionable dump each his crap each implicit our gorgeous crippled of onshore without asking,” the institution wrote connected a website announcing its lawsuit. “After we caught him, SpaceX gave america a 12-hour ultimatum to judge a lowball connection for little than fractional our land’s value. We said, ‘Go fuck yourself, Elon Musk. We’ll spot you successful court.’”