Elon Musk Elon Musk sells all 20,000 Boring Company 'flamethrowers' Stunt generates $10m for billionaire’s personal hobby despite warnings from Home Office and US politicians A Boring Company spokesperson said its flamethrower is ‘safer than what you can buy right now off-the-shelf on Amazon to destroy weeds’. Photograph: SuppliedElon Musk’s fire sale of his Boring Company “flamethrowers” raised $10m, selling out all 20,000 units, despite warnings from the Home Office and US politicians. The tech billionaire chief executive of Tesla, Space X and the Boring Company, tweeted on Thursday morning that all the $500 flamethrowers were sold out and that “all flamethrowers will ship with a complimentary Boring fire extinguisher”. The flamethrower success follows Musk’s sale of 50,000 Boring Company baseball caps at $20 a piece. The South African business magnate teased that his next Boring company stunt sale might be another weapon out of the fantasy villain’s playbook.

Source: The Guardian February 01, 2018 10:52 UTC