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This self-made millionaire invented a "gun" that shoots salt at flies
CNBC ^ | 23 May 2019 | Jane Wells

Posted on 05/24/2019 4:48:41 AM PDT by zeestephen

Lorenzo Maggiore never graduated high school. "I moved to Oxnard and surfed for three years." His parents were concerned, so Maggiore went to trade school and learned to hang wallpaper....But he always had this idea to make a gun to kill flies. "It’s fun, and it’s ridiculous," Maggiore says. "I couldn’t let it go." [The first 40 seconds of his original sales video is LOL amazing - "Bug-A-Salt" - link to it in the main story, or in Comment #1]

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To: NativeSon

Yep. You gotta kill the females. My wooden traps are catching them. Apparently they fight each other to the death inside the trap.


61 posted on 05/24/2019 3:50:28 PM PDT by RummyChick (I have no inside sources, media sources, or federal government employee sources. NONE)
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To: Hot Tabasco

After shooting all the flies you can dance like Doris Day using the salt on the floor.
https://youtu.be/5MnUrhptPSo?t=68


62 posted on 05/24/2019 4:03:51 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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