Tabletop gaming and major tech companies are brushing against one another. The publisher of the popular card game, Cards Against Humanity, has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's company SpaceX for trespassing on private property they have purchased.
The Cards Against Humanity SpaceX Lawsuit
According to a report by CBS, Cards Against Humanity filed a lawsuit this week in Texas court towards SpaceX. It alleges that SpaceX treated a vacant plot of land in Cameron County owned by Cards Against Humanity as its own for the past six months.
The lawsuit continues stating SpaceX has been acquiring other plots of land near the property and has been placing construction materials, gravel, and other debris on that land without asking permission to do so. According to the company, the land even has a "no trespassing" sign.
The company is asking for $15 million in damages, including a vegetation loss on the land.
Cards Against Humanity purchased the vacant plot of land in 2017. In an official post titled "Cards Against Humanity Saves America," the company explains the purchase of the land was to help prevent former US President Donald Trump from building a wall on the US/Mexico border.
The post explains that 150,000 people paid $15 each to purchase the vacant border land. In addition, they retained a law firm specialized in eminent domain. This would make any effort to claim the land as expensive and time-consuming as possible.
For a company known for making a notoriously raunchy party game packed with dark jokes, this gesture cemented the company's reputation of mischievous philanthropy. Another example is when they donated $70,000 to the WIkipedia Foundation in 2012.
That mischief may now be legally plaguing another highly contentious billionaire seven years after the fact.
SpaceX has not officially responded to this lawsuit at time of writing.
