This weekend Elon Musk held a pickup party at Boring Company headquarters for his flamethrower, which for legal reasons is officially called “Not-a-Flamethrower.” At the party for the $500 flamethrower, guests used their new toys to toast marshmallows.
While some of Musk’s devices are already for sale on eBay, the people who kept their flamethrowers are using them for some pretty interesting things:
First 1000 Boring Company Flamethrowers being picked up today! pic.twitter.com/hBMp5fGzAB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2018
First 1000 Boring Company Flamethrowers being picked up today! pic.twitter.com/hBMp5fGzAB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2018
Some people used the “Not a Flamethrower” to really flamebroil their steaks:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bj3_v8Eh6B_/?taken-by=pinguinokolb
While others used the flamethrower to toast the top of creme brûlée…
Also here's some creme brulee @risknc made #notaflamethrower pic.twitter.com/sn3cYngSWN
— ριɳɠυιɳσ 🍕 (@pinguino) June 10, 2018
Also here's some creme brulee @risknc made #notaflamethrower pic.twitter.com/sn3cYngSWN
— ριɳɠυιɳσ 🍕 (@pinguino) June 10, 2018
And then there’s this guy who appears to have lit up something else with his flamethrower…
https://twitter.com/Maxoplata/status/1005629967659515904
Musk’s Boring Company sold 20,000 of the flamethrowers to the public. This weekend’s event only distributed the first 1,000, but as more and more of the flamethrowers get out into circulation, we’ll inevitably see a lot more interesting things being burned — and probably a few unexpected things as well.
One Not a Flamethrower buyer claims to have actually set his flamethrower on fire:
Guys I set the flamethrower on fire. The manual does not address this.
— Johnny Xmas ❄️ (@J0hnnyXm4s) June 10, 2018
Guys I set the flamethrower on fire. The manual does not address this.
— Johnny Xmas ❄️ (@J0hnnyXm4s) June 10, 2018
Then there’s this guy, who is just shooting his flamethrower in his heavily wooded backyard. What could possibly go wrong?
this video of me shooting a flamethrower haphazardly while @BrettBlackman looks on anxiously is my favorite video of the year pic.twitter.com/XjycHAAGzG
— wingtip (@itswingtip) June 11, 2018
this video of me shooting a flamethrower haphazardly while @BrettBlackman looks on anxiously is my favorite video of the year pic.twitter.com/XjycHAAGzG
— wingtip (@itswingtip) June 11, 2018