Elon Musk says Boring Company hiring bizarre ‘Watchtower guard’

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• Elon
  Musk said on Thursday via Twitter that The
  Boring Company is building a “watchtower” in Los Angeles
  out of dirt bricks.
• He added that the company needs “a knight to yell
  insults at people in a French accent,” a likely reference to
  the 1975 film “Monty Python and
  the Holy Grail”.
• 
  A Boring Company representative told Business
  Insider that the tower will likely be over 50 feet
  tall.
  
• The Boring Company, which was founded by Musk to dig
  tunnels for the Loop and Hyperloop transit systems, listed 10
  job openings on its website, as of Thursday afternoon,
  including one for a “watchtower guard.”

Elon Musk said on Thursday via Twitter that The Boring Company is
building a “watchtower” in Los Angeles out of dirt bricks. He
added that the company needs “a knight to yell insults at people
in a French accent,” a likely reference to the 1975 film “Monty Python and
the Holy Grail”.

“The Boring Company is building a watchtower in LA out of
dirt bricks & we need a knight to yell insults at people in a
French accent,” Musk said.

The watchtower will be located near The Boring Company’s
test tunnel in Hawthorne, Musk said. A Boring Company
representative told Business Insider that the tower will likely
be over 50 feet tall.

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The Boring Company, which was founded by Musk to dig tunnels for
the Loop and Hyperloop transit systems, listed 10 job openings on
its website, as of Thursday afternoon, including one for a
“watchtower guard” that could last for as little as two days. A
Boring Company representative said the position could potentially
last longer, but did not describe the conditions under which the
role might be extended.

The other nine openings are for mechanical and engineering roles.

The Boring Company has so far won
a bid to build a tunnel for the Loop transit system in
Chicago and has proposed building tunnels in Los Angeles, New
York, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. (Musk has
suggested the company could also build a tunnel in San
Francisco.) The Boring Company has received approval to dig a
two-mile test tunnel in Hawthorne —
which Musk
indicated on November 3 was complete — dig a 10.3-mile tunnel
beneath Baltimore,
and begin preliminary work in Washington,
DC. 

Hyperloop
,
first proposed by Musk in a 2013 white paper, would carry
passengers in pods at speeds of over 600 mph. Loop resembles
Hyperloop but would be used for shorter distances that require
slower speeds. Musk has said Loop pods would hold 16 people and
travel at 150 mph. He has also said a Loop system could be
accessed by dozens of small stations that would transport
passengers underground and take up as much space as a parking
spot.