Palmer Luckey is really suing over something we’ll probably never use in our lives… but to no avail, he’s a billionaire who lives in a completely different world from us!

Palmer Luckey was the founder of the company Oculus (but he’s also associated with Anduril: it deals in weapons), and now he’s suing the construction company he hired to turn a house into a garage for his luxury cars, reports Forbest. He owns a $12.5 million house in Newport Beach, California, and collects old cars, so he bought another house across the street from his to turn into a garage for a cool $3.8 million. It wasn’t just a paint job, of course. For $2.5 million, he completely renovated the 650-square-foot building and added another 93 square feet over several floors to house the cars. Four dedicated car lifts were installed to move cars between floors and the roof, but there is also a central and circular passenger elevator.

Luckey filed a lawsuit in the Superior Court of Orange County, California, against the elevator and construction company, alleging that the four car lifts and the passenger elevator all failed, trapping several people. Luckey said the elevators were unsafe, citing a contract that required the elevators to be hand-built when they were ordered from a Chinese manufacturer. In a statement, the elevator company, Custom Cabs, denied Luckey’s allegations, and the builder, WT Durant, said through its lawyer that it had fulfilled the contract because inspectors found everything in place last August.

Luckey’s attorney, David Peck, said Custom Cabs should have been aware of the potential problems: “The passenger elevator stopped mid-lift, trapping Mr. Luckey and the elevator contractor for over ten minutes. These lifts were the central feature of the residence to move vehicles to the various levels where they are parked….That is the whole purpose of the house.”

We shudder to think how sociopathic Luckey must be.

Source: PCGamer, Forbes