Florida is actually going to authorize him to bust into your property. That's not hyperbole.
By JOE PATRICE
onApril 27, 2021 at 4:44 PM
There’s a classic joke about a hunter who killed a duck that landed on a farmer’s land. The farmer proposes to settle the property dispute over the prize bird by kicking each other in the testicles until one party relents. It’s a pretty great joke. Here’s Buddy Hackett telling it.
Anyway, in today’s version of the joke, Elon Musk is the guy repeatedly kicking Floridians in the balls.
At the urging of Musk’s SpaceX lobbyists, Florida legislators just passed House Bill 221 with the relatively innocuous opening “An act relating to recovery of spaceflight assets.” But read a little further, and what’s actually going on here is a wild instance of corporate back-scratching instituting a criminal penalty on anyone who finds space junk lodged in their roof from an exploded Tesla rocket. It seems only fair that someone narrowly dodging a Donnie Darko ending should be subjected to the criminal justice system, right?