Cards Against Humanity, the developer of the popular adult party game, has filed a $15 million lawsuit against SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a Texas court, alleges that SpaceX employees trespassed and damaged land near the U.S.-Mexico border that Cars Against Humanity purchased in 2017. Contractors removed vegetation and laid gravel over the soil to create space where SpaceX spacecraft could park and work, the complaint says.
Cards Against Humanity has used more than $2 million in donations to acquire land near Brownsville, Texas, in an effort to protect the area from former President Donald Trump’s plans to build a wall on the southern border.
In an Instagram post on Friday, Cards Against Humanity said Musk “sneaked up from behind and completely (expletive)ed the land with gravel, tractors and space junk.”
SpaceX did not immediately respond to USA Today’s request for comment on Friday.
More than 150,000 donors helped purchase the land.
In 2017, more than 150,000 people donated $15 to support Cards Against Humanity’s plan to make Trump’s wall plan “as slow and expensive as possible.”
The plan was part of a six-day crowdsourcing campaign called “Cards Against Humanity Saves America,” a campaign of surprise giveaways and political causes.
In its lawsuit, Cards Against Humanity alleges that “for at least six months, SpaceX treated the land as its own property without regard for CAH’s property rights or the safety of anyone entering the work site, which is supposedly governed by OSHA safety requirements.”
A game where potential lawsuit victories are shared with donors
The company said that if it wins the lawsuit, it will share the net proceeds with the 150,000 people who donated to buy the land.
“While it’s not enough to compensate our subscribers for the pain they’ve experienced as they’ve watched Elon Musk deface the once lush lands where wild horses roamed free under the Texas moonlight, we think it’s a pretty good start,” the company said.
The company has launched a website, ElonOwesYou100Dollars.com, with more information about the lawsuit, and has also released photos showing what the land will look like in 2017 and 2024.