Jamie Lynn Spears challenges ‘Cat-Killer’ claim about Tesla

Before getting to the heart of the matter, I would like to clarify that the following question is purely hypothetical, just a small and so weird hissing around my brain space for the last hour or so: how many cats, if any, could EDM artist and Tesla CEO Elon Musk “owes” his celebrity brother Jamie Lynn Spears? A cat? Two cats? Three to four cats? Zero cats, really no cats to speak of? Hm!

I wonder about this alleged debt because of a video message Jamie Lynn (Nickelodeon star turned country singer and little sister to Britney Spears) allegedly posted on Instagram on Friday. She has since deleted the images, but not before they reached TMZ: According to the gossip site, Jamie Lynn told her followers that Musk “must[s]Her “few cats,” replacements for the animals she had apparently lost in her very quiet smart car.

“The Tesla is a secret cat killer, and it’s a problem we really need to fix,” she says. “We have now lost, I don’t even want to tell you how many cats because they don’t hear Tesla’s crank and unfortunate things are happening and it’s really devastating and tragic for everyone involved.

Jamie Lynn then allegedly suggested that Tesla add “one of those noises that like to bother cat or animal ears when he gets up, so they know something is going on and that they are not. caught off guard and things did not end tragically. As CNN points out, the United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has asked electric car makers to equip their vehicles to make “your dishwasher’s noise level” since September 2020, “to ensure that the blind , the visually impaired and other pedestrians are able to detect and recognize hybrid and electric vehicles nearby. But nonetheless, Jamie Lynn concluded his video post by saying, “Elon Musk, let’s see this. You owe me some cats.

This disclosure did not go well online, where some observers called the 29-year-old is a “serial cat killer” and urged her to just use the car’s cameras, or make noise before entering or exiting areas where cats may hide. In a follow-up video, which she later deleted but which TMZ again preserved, Jamie Lynn said she was “fully aware that there was user error involved in this”, but that she would nevertheless be in favor of a collaboration “to save the lives of certain cats.” . She then came back a third time, E! reports, writing in an Instagram story:

1.) I did not run over any cats. 2.) TESLA is not to blame, and was never meant to be 3.) Certainly user error is involved. 4.) We always check animals before moving a vehicle. 5.) I was only making a suggestion on something that I thought would be extremely helpful, and the geniuses at @teslamotors are the best.

Then again, TMZ also recorded a clip from his Stories in which his young daughter, Ivey, says that her cat, Turkey, “went to Jesus,” so there you go. For his part, Musk does not appear to have commented on the undisclosed number of cats believed to be due.