Elon is slapped by a fellow student at a school camp

- Elon Musk's bitter experience during his school life in South Africa...

- Summary

- Vinod D. Bhatt

- Part-6

- Musk and Eberhard settled out of court in defamation case

- As a child, Elon bled to death while petting his beloved dog...

Eberhard says, 'Musk fired me from the company I founded (Tesla), and the result was that the company's first electric car, (the Roadster), completely went sour.

Eberhard also alleged in the court case that Musk, himself, had falsely spread the word that he was the founder of the Tesla company.

It was also specifically mentioned in the court case that Musk had committed a breach of contract with himself.

After just a few months of court proceedings in this defamation case against Eberhard, Elon Musk was settled out of court.

None of the two parties released any detailed information on how and on what terms the settlement was reached, which is the best that ends well, as the saying goes, instead of a long legal case in court, the dispute between these two gentlemen came to an unexpected happy end within a short period of time.

Every board meeting between Eberhard and Musk had flint, and Eberhard left the Tesla company in 2007.

As it turned out, upon leaving the company, it was agreed that Eberhard would release the first "Roadsters" in the multi-million dollar "Founder's Series" from the company. The car was one of the most expensive. It was decided to gift this car to Eberhard when he left the company, but according to Eberhard, he was given a "Regular Model" car instead of a special model of the Founder Series. But it was a damaged car, that car was full of goo...!

Elon Musk spent his childhood in South Africa. Since childhood, Musk has felt what pain and suffering is, and Musk has learned to live amidst painful circumstances since childhood.

Here we used to take small children from school to a camp in a riverside or mountainous region, like children from a school in South Africa were taken to a ``wilderness survival camp''.

When Musk was 12 years old, children from school were taken to one such camp. In this kind of camp, the children get the practical education of how to survive amidst the hardships in the deserted and desolate region. The camp was intended to give almost paramilitary training to the children.

Each child was given a small amount of food and a limited amount of drinking water. Then the children were allowed to fight among themselves if they felt hungry and wanted to eat more. Say the children were indirectly encouraged to fight each other.

Musk's younger brother Kimball, reminiscing about this school camp in his childhood, says that bullies were considered a specialty in such camps. (Bullying was considered a virtue)

The older children quickly learned to slap the little ones twice or four times on the cheek, grab the food from them...!

Elon Musk was young and two older children slapped him twice and snatched all the food from him. Musk was so frightened by the beatings of the children in the camp that he lost 10 kg in a few days after returning home.

After five-six days in the camp, the children were divided into two groups and one group was instructed to attack, fight and quarrel with the boys of the other group.

It was all crazy, mind-boggling, says Elon Musk, recalling the old days of the camp.

Two groups of boys fought and fought so much that every few years a child died. As little as that, school teachers used to repeat such incidents to warn the children not to be stupid like Jojo, who died last year. Don't be weak, learn to bully.

Musk was 16 years old when he took the children from school to the wilderness camp for the second time. The body was also a little stiff. The six-foot-tall Musk also trained in judo. So Musk did not have a bad experience in this camp like the previous camp.

Reminiscing about the second camp, Musk says, "After the first camp, I realized that if a boy attacked me or was going to bully me, I would punch him right on the nose, so that he would never do it again." Don't even dare to bully me.

The Musk family in South Africa kept German Shepherd dogs for home guard, protection. A German Shepherd was trained to attack anyone who came running near the Musk family home. In the 1980s, there was a lot of violence in South Africa due to the apartheid policy. A series of machine-gun attacks and knife killings became common in the period.

One day when Elon Musk was six years old, one of his German Shepherds barked at Musk as he approached the house jogging. A lump of flesh came out of Musk's body and he fell down bleeding.

Tragically, the German Shepherd that killed Musk was a dog that was very dear to Musk.

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