Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing and filling its property with ‘space garbage’
https://www.engadget.com/science/space/cards-against-humanity-is-suing-spacex-for-trespassing-and-filling-its-property-with-space-garbage-181828453.html
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The lawsuit seems legit despite having a minor typo. Looks like the contractors meant to roll up to lot 10, but instead rolled up to lot 11 and started performing their work. Not sure how you can make that big of a mistake with modern surveying techniques. The lawsuit includes some before and after pictures, making it quite clear that the land was previously lush and natural. It has now been completely leveled and has structures, tractors, and building supplies all over it. Completely ruined.
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Well this wasn’t on my bingo card for this year.
I wonder if any rare native species were trashed in the process – as that will increase any damages to restore the plot to its original condition.
Holy shit, they own a lot over by the Rocket Ranch outpost then. Yeah saw this last week it’s fucked.
Clicking this I would’ve thought it was them suing because of all the satellite they are putting up; the space being space and the junk being the satellites.
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I’m a signatory to this suit as one of the “owners” of the CAH lot. They openly state that they expect to not win very much money (or any at all) due to how expensive Elon’s attorneys will be, but I’m glad they’re suing. It’s offensive to think that SpaceX can just roll onto anyone’s property and set up shop without permission. *Should* be an open and shut case, but we all know how lawsuits go. I expect they’ll spend 50 times the money needed to just quickly fix everything in order to fight it, and we won’t get a resolution for years.
Imagine this in reverse. They’d file all kinds of absurd charges and demand prison time with endless millions in compensation.
A lawsuit against SpaceX for $15mil is a joke. That should be significantly higher.
They knowingly and willingly started doing this, knowing that the law is slow to respond, and by the time anyone was able to complain, it would be too late. The whole tactic here is, “Build anyway, we’ll just settle in court, and we get to keep the land–we can afford it; just the cost of doing ‘business.'”
This is unacceptable. Make them remove every piece of construction and machinery, fine them for the natural resource damages and permits that they obviously ignored, and payout trespassing fines proportionate to the same any other person/party would have to pay in a similar case.
In before cards against humanity makes Elon musk cards in retaliation
Elon musk couldn’t find his lot even if he had ________.
Do they now own all the space garbage? Like the equipment and stuff erected there?
Odds are spacex didn’t realize the construction company they hired was doing this and just decided to try and buy the land with their lowball offer to make the problem go away.
Trespassing in Texas is a good way to get shot.
I feel like the CAH needs to find better lawyers.
1. They are making a damage claim against Space X that it will take X money to fix the damage Space X did
2. They then offer money from the potential win to its backers. I.E. not to fix the property damage
So either CAH is lying that it needs X month to fix the damage that Space X did. Or CAH has some pretty terrible lawyers.
$15M in damage to one unimproved (except for an alleged fence) acre out of a total parcel of “cheap land along the border,” of a total undisclosed size that they paid up to $2.25M for in 2017.
This is so obviously a publicity stunt because Elon is on their shit list.
Judge ain’t gonna like that one bit.
On one hand, I applaud them for standing up to Elon.
On the other hand, their game sucks.
This doesn’t sound like Elmo at all. Pfffttttt
Why don’t they just take all their shit? Thanks for the donation.
How do they differentiate between the garbage and the CAH stuff?
This is the property: https://cameron.prodigycad.com/property-detail/173555/2024
Assessed value of the property in 2017, when they bought it: $2,150 (oh, and they raised over $2 million to buy this 0.4 acre lot. That’s quite the rate of return!)
Assessed value of the property now: $35,000
Damages claimed in lawsuit: $15,000,000
Good luck with that.
The complaint plays pretty fast and loose with the assertion of “facts.” It doesn’t lay out the property lines, but rather suggests everything in the pictures is on their postage stamp of a lot. Looking at the map, it’s clearly not. It looks like SpaceX is building on the two adjacent lots, and some contractors stored some material on the empty lot in between. Not great, but not uncommon either. Asking for $15 million is just a publicity stunt.