Elon Musk Has Apologised After Calling A Hero Cave Diver A 'Pedo'
Besieged Tesla boss Elon Musk has apologised after calling a British cave diver “pedo guy” and provoking a(nother) huge online backlash.
After levelling the bizarre insult at Vern Unsworth on 15 July, a couple of days of reflection had obviously left Musk in a calmer frame of mind. Across two Tweets he wrote:
“My words were spoken in anger after Mr Unsworth said several untruths & suggested I engage in a sexual act with the mini-sub, which had been built as an act of kindness and according to specifications from the dive team leader.
“Nonetheless, his actions against me do not justify my actions against him, and for that I apologise to Mr Unsworth and to the companies I represent as leader. The fault is mine and mine alone.”
Vern Unsworth was one of the team of divers who helped to extract a young football team and their coach, who were all stuck in what became known as ‘Cave Five’ at the Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand.
Musk had built a miniature submarine capable of holding a person, complete with its own oxygen supply, with the hope that rescue teams could use it to extract the stranded minors. It seemed like a pretty decent thing to do, but the row began when Unsworth coarsely dismissed the machine’s chances of success in a media interview and said Musk could “stick his submarine where it hurts.”
SpaceX chief Musk then responded with a Tweet saying he’d make his own video showing the mini-sub “going all the way to Cave 5 no problemo,” followed by “Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it.”
Unsworth, who lives in the Asian country, has never had any charges brought against him for any criminal activity, according to a Reuters report that cites an unnamed local Thai police officer.
Lawyers from Britain and the US, all of whom have caught the scent of a fat payday, have apparently now approached Unsworth to offer their services for what would be a high-profile lawsuit.
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God he is so childish
Next up: ur mom gay 360 no scope m8
And unsworth wasn’t childish for telling him to stick his submarine “where it hurts” ? It looks like people are just jumping on the Elon-hating bandwagon because that’s the cool thing to do on CT
Honestly he could have done this to distract everyone from the problems Tesla is having, no one is talking about Tesla’s problems
My emotion is so confused……..its like my brain in maths class now………..
Rip social status now Tesla will pay
Will he apologize to the Model 3 buyers for poor build quality and delays?
Dude, you cant believe everything thats on the internet. It isnt that bad
You know, it’s stuff like this that bothers me about CT. Musk got irritated and lashed out on someone. Yeah it happens. The other guy provoked him and Musk acted as he saw fit. What he did was wrong and he owned up to it and apologized accordingly. He did what he had to do and move on. But the CT staff makes it appear as though Musk was the one who was at fault for everything. Don’t get me wrong, the neither party was in the good here, but that’s no reason to paint one side of the story in bad lighting. If you’re going to post news about someone, make sure that it’s as unbiased as possible so that the people commenting on them go in on a neutral basis
Sorry for the rant but someone had to say it and I did
^This
Yes yes yes absolutely.
Even though Musk shouldn’t have been at or in the caves. And just because his submarine didn’t work one bit, he said something completely inappropriate to someone who was ACTUALLY helping with the situation.
I agree that neither party was in the good here.
I’ve also read at least 7 other articles on this which all have their respective biases. It’s my opinion that the CT staff have done a fairly good job reporting this objectively. You may disagree, but respectively the CT article takes a pretty objective stance.
On the other hand, if you look at the comment section from the initial CT report on this, the commenting public seems to have a serious problem with Elon. I think one of the top comments was “Always hated Elon, no regrets so far…”
To be honest, I’m glad it’s Tesla leading the charge…no pun intended. Because electric cars are coming no matter what us petrolheads do/want. At least with Tesla/Elon we get cool features like ludicrous mode with crazy 0-60 times, and an eccentric genius who has a passion for technology. I’d rather have more interesting electric cars and a passionate CEO than boring run of the mill econo-box electric cars.
Puzzled as to what the issue is with our coverage here. We’ve represented both sides fairly here and quoted the key lines from Unsworth that seemed to have provoked Musk, and the whole video interview in both pieces. It sounds like me like you want us to suggest Musk isn’t entirely at fault for calling something a ‘pedo’, which of course we can’t - that’s his fault no matter what provoked him into saying it. It’s a very serious thing to say to a following of 22 million followers and it could (and if it goes to court will) be deemed defamation.
Im angry so im calling you on social media pedophile, buuurrrrnnn…. Elon, please…
Another post with absolutely nothing about cars on CT. I’m sure a lot of us couldn’t care less about what sort of trouble Elon Musk is getting himself into, so here’s pretty Maserati to atleast have something car related on this post
Cared enough to comment, it is car related since the guy is CEO of a CAR company.
To be fair, I’d rather have a submarine than most cars - especially one of those nuclear naval ones which’ll scare the hell out of fishing boats.
Telling someone to shove their sub up their a$$ isn’t cool either, Unsworth wasn’t called “pedo guy” because he helped rescue kids, it was in response to his churlish comments directed at Musk, please fix your subtitle it is incredibly misleading.
Yes, this. Agree so much
Beat you by one hour..
“lawyers from Britain and the US, all of whom caught the scent of a fat payday, have now approached Unsworth…”
Good to know their hearts are in the right place,
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