The popular party game Cards Against Humanity has filed a new lawsuit accusing Elon Musk’s SpaceX of "trespassing on and damaging" a plot of land in Texas that the card game company bought in 2017 to obstruct a large section of Donald Trump’s border wall.
Cards Against Humanity, whose headquarters are in Chicago, legally paid for the plot of vacant land in Cameron County through a crowdfunded “prank” that resulted in over 150,000 people paying $15 each to own a portion of the land, according to the lawsuit filed at a Texas court.
Cards Against Humanity alleges SpaceX has essentially treated the game company’s property as its own for at least the past six months. In a statement on their website, they explain their reasons for the lawsuit and also show side-by-side photos of the land before and after SpaceX dumped their equipment.
"We have terrible news. Seven years ago, 150,000 people paid us $15 to protect a pristine parcel of land on the US-Mexico border from racist billionaire Donald Trump's very stupid wall."
The lawsuit alleges that SpaceX, which had previously acquired other plots of land near the property, has placed construction materials, such as gravel, and other debris on the land without asking for permission to do so. They're asking for $15 million in damages to the local vegetation.
Cards Against Humanity says the land has been maintained in its natural state. It also says it contained a “no trespassing” sign to warn people they were about to step on private property.