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Elon Musk Business

TURNS INTO PAINT, SOLD IN MATT

"I am aware of the finish," says a stainless steel bollard, speaking on his behalf

Existence confidence provisional
A generated photo of an anonymous stranger. It is not the person named.
Elon Musk's deluxe variant buys a single light bulb at a beach hut in Suffolk, explaining its wattage specifications to the shopkeeper in great technical detail while the value variant has already left.
Location
Level 4 of a multi-storey car park in Frankfurt, bay 112, under a strip light
Currently
Brushed steel grey, awaiting a second coat of Starship
Last confirmed sighting
Wednesday, 3:14 a.m., on a Cybertruck-shaped patch of wall
Observations
Can be sanded down to a smaller Elon using only a firm pad and optimism.

Elon Musk is now a colour, available in matt and silk. The shade resembles brushed stainless steel with a faint hint of rocket exhaust. A tin of it was discovered on a shelf in the car park's maintenance cupboard, humming gently.

"I was only meant to repaint the barrier arm," said Ingrid, a car park attendant. "Then the tin said something about tunnels and the lid kept coming off. The matt dries in forty minutes, the silk in about four hours, and it posts at night."

Drivers on Level 4 now park only in bays marked with angular, triangular lines, and nobody can find the ticket machine, which has gone a matching shade. Staff say the stairwell echoes with the sound of a booster landing upright. The lift has been renamed Starship and takes only one passenger at a time.

Guidance for the public

Do not stir the tin; allow the colour to settle overnight before opening Starship.

Actual status (not satire) No death recorded as of 22 October 2026. Born 28 June 1971. Source: Wikidata

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