Cards Against Humanity sues SpaceX, alleging trespassing near Texas border
- by The New Zealand Herald
- Sep 22, 2024
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Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, with the company's Falcon Heavy rocket at Launch Pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo / Todd Anderson, The New York Times
Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, with the company's Falcon Heavy rocket at Launch Pad 39A at Nasa's Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photo / Todd Anderson, The New York Times
Cards Against Humanity, the company behind the deliberately distasteful party game, has filed a US$15 million lawsuit against SpaceX, alleging the aerospace behemoth led by Elon Musk trespassed on land it
owns in Texas near the border with Mexico.
Cards Against Humanity bought the property in 2017 as a part of a stunt aimed at impeding then President Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall along the southern border. About 150,000 people donated US$15 ($24)to its crowdsourcing campaign to purchase the “pristine” vacant land, the lawsuit filed in the Cameron County District Court on Thursday said.
But for at least six months, SpaceX has “treated the property as its own,” the lawsuit says, accusing SpaceX and/or its contractors of trespassing and, without permission, clearing the land of vegetation, laying down gravel, bringing in generators, and using it to park vehicles and store construction materials. SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The property is located in a once-quiet part of coastal South Texas that has been transformed by the development of SpaceX’s Starbase industrial complex. One of the company’s four active launch sites, Starbase includes a 146m rocket launch and catch tower and has been described by SpaceX as “one of the world’s first commercial spaceports designed for orbital missions.”
While Starbase brought more than 2100 jobs into the region, it has caused consternation among some locals, according to a Reuters investigation published on Friday, which first reported the Cards Against Humanity lawsuit.
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