Musk is the 48-year-old genius behind both Tesla and SpaceX, but, he also founded The Boring Company in 2016 – an infrastructure and tunnel construction business – a brainchild born from his endless struggle with Los Angeles traffic. In February 2017, the company began digging a 30-foot wide, 50-foot long, and 15-foot deep "test trench" on the premises of Space X's offices in Los Angeles, since the construction requires no permits. However, at the same time, the company also began to engage in a number of marketing promotions, offering merchandise to the general public.

This started with hats and fire extinguishers, but in January 2018 took a big step forward, offering what appeared to be a flamethrower. In September last year, Musk was a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast, where he was asked: “Selling a flamethrower, is that a good idea?” Musk replied: “It’s a terrible idea, terrible, you shouldn’t buy one, I said do not buy this flamethrower. “But still people bought it.

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Elon Musk is the CEO of The Boring Company

t’s a terrible idea, terrible, you shouldn’t buy one, I said do not buy this flamethrower Elon Musk

“There is nothing I can do to stop them, it’s a bad idea, it’s dangerous, it’s wrong, do not buy it. “But we made 20,000 and they were all gone in three or four days.” He went on to reveal the steps the company took to build up to selling the controversial merchandise. He added: “That’s it, we sold 50,000 hats and that was a million dollars, so I said I wanted to sell something for $10million (£7.7million). “So that was 20,000 flamethrowers at $500 (£385) each. JUST IN: Egypt archaeologists make ‘most intriguing discovery yet in mysterious underwater opening'

In 2018 they released a flamethrower

Joe Rogan pressed Musk on the invention

Musk said it was a terrible idea

“I don’t know if it worked.” It appears customs are not the only problem Musk faces, though. Over the weekend, Pablo Escobar’s brother vowed to “take down” Musk over the product, claiming he and his brother designed it. Roberto Escobar, the 72-year-old former accountant for his drug trafficker brother, has made a career in recent years out of cashing in on the family’s infamous name. Mr Escobar alleges that Musk stole his concept for the flamethrower after engineers visited the Escobar compound in the summer of 2017.

Pablo Escobar was killed in 1993

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