Elon Musk’s 'crazy stalker' claims he’s the one being stalked
The man accused of being Elon Musk's crazy stalker has identified himself, and fired back that he believes it's actually Elon who is stalking him.
It all started when the Twitter CEO tweeted a video filmed by one of his security guards, of a man in a white Hyundai, covering his face with a hood and a black face masks.
"Anyone recognise this person or car?" he asked his 122.3 million followers.
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The billionaire claimed that the man was a 'crazy stalker' who followed a car carrying 'lil X' - Elon and Grimes's child X Æ A-Xii - and even went as far as to 'block [the] car from moving and climb onto [the] hood.'
Since then, the supposed 'crazy stalker' has been identified as a man named Brandon Collado.
Brandon, according to the Washington Post, confirmed he was 'the guy in this video', before insisting that Elon had it all wrong - and it was the Tesla founder who was stalking him.
To prove that it was really him, Brandon shared his own videos from the confrontation with the Post.
The man, who claimed to be a driver for Uber Eats, addressed Musk on Twitter, saying: "You have connections to me and have stalked me and my family for over a year."
Brandon went on to make a number of bizarre claims, including that he was sure Elon was tracking his real-time location, and that Grimes - Elon's ex-partner and the mother of two of his children - was sending him subliminal coded messages through her Instagram posts.
Collado insists he had simply pulled into a gas statin last week in the midst of his Uber Eats deliveries, when a member of Elon's security team confronted him unprovoked.
A detective from the LAPD unit that specialises in high profile stalking cases, Marc Madero, has since confirmed that officers have investigated Elon's video, but have yet to reach any solid conclusion.
Meanwhile, it seems as though the scare that Collado gave Elon's security team has inspired the richest man in the world to threaten legal action against the university student behind the Twitter page @ElonJet, which had been tracking the Twitter boss's flights.
Jack Sweeney has already been suspended from Twitter, and prompted Elon to change Twitter's rules and regulations about sharing real-time information on people's location.
"Any account doxxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it is a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn’t a safety problem, so is OK," tweeted Musk.
"Legal action is being taken against Sweeney & organisations who supported harm to my family."
When Musk first took over Twitter, he claimed his priority was to promote free speech, though Sweeney seems to have inspired him to do a 180.
It's unclear what action Elon could really take against the university student, since his suspended @ElonJet account was simply posting public flight information.
UNILAD has contacted Uber for a comment.
Ali Condon