Goat statue with massive Elon Musk head delivered to Tesla’s Texas headquarters. Why?

The statue’s head is 6 feet tall, and the goat’s body is 30-feet-long, the website says. The rocket has gas lines inside enabling it to shoot flames out the end. — Photo by Frederic J. BROWN/AFP

A massive silver statue of a goat with Elon Musk’s head was delivered to a Tesla factory in Texas this week. The delivery – and the statue itself – poses the question: Who would create such a thing? And why?

The statue, named the Elon GOAT Monument, was created by $EGT, a cryptocurrency token named after Elon Musk, a billionaire businessman known for his involvement in Tesla, SpaceX and, most recently, Twitter, according to the token’s website. The founders of $EGT admired Musk whom they refer to as the GOAT, meaning the Greatest Of All Time.