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This Self-Made Millionaire Invented a 'Gun' That Shoots Salt at Flies

posted by Fnord666 on Sunday May 26 2019, @10:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the does-the-a-salt-require-a-battery? dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

CNBC:

If you hate [flies], then Lorenzo Maggiore is your patron saint.

"I was a weird kid, I didn't like flies," says the 57-year-old from Los Angeles. "I used to put them in my Hot Wheels cars and send them down the track. They land on poo, and then they land on your food. Anything that does that, I'm not really interested in."

Maggiore is the artistic madman behind Bug-A-Salt, a $40 "gun" which uses table salt as buckshot to stun or kill bugs, especially flies. Salt makes the product safe to use around food, and it also doesn't blow the bug to bits. "That's another thing that's beautiful about it, it leaves them whole," he says. A lot of times, Bug-A-Salt doesn't actually kill the bug, it just gets it off your table.

I liked the Make magazine article on zapping mosquitos with lasers better, myself.

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday May 26 2019, @05:29PM (2 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday May 26 2019, @05:29PM (#847921) Homepage

    Shooting coons (raccoons) with salt is my favorite kind of assault.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 27 2019, @05:01AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 27 2019, @05:01AM (#848100)

    We caught a racoon in our trash one night and sprayed it with a water fire extinguisher (starting pressure ~100 psi or ~6-7 bar). It went up a nearby tree as high as it could go...but was still in reach of the water spray. So we kept hosing it down. I don't remember it messing with our trash after that.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 27 2019, @02:58PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 27 2019, @02:58PM (#848193)

      Also useful for repelling illegal immigrants from borders