Elon Musk Elon Musk sells $3.5m worth of flamethrowers in a day First it was ‘Boring’ baseball caps, now Tesla founder is selling flamethrowers – ‘to liven up a party’ The Boring Company Flamethrower. Photograph: SuppliedElon Musk, the multi-billionaire founder of electric car company Tesla and tunnelling company Boring, has sold $3.5m (£2.5m) worth of “boring” flamethrowers in less than 24 hours. The caps sold out, and Musk started selling $500 flamethrowers on Sunday, tweeting: “Guaranteed to liven up any party!”Elon Musk (@elonmusk) The Boring Company flamethrower guaranteed to liven up any party! Elon Musk (@elonmusk) You’d need millions of zombies for a so-called “apocalypse” anyway. Musk did not respond to questions from the Guardian about the safety implications of selling flamethrowers to anyone over the web.

Source: The Guardian January 29, 2018 16:44 UTC