Musk’s flamethrowers start to hit the street

Tesla founder hosts a party as first preorders of incendiary device are picked up

Elon Musk has one request about his Boring Company's flamethrower:

Don't call it a flamethrower. In fact, Musk says that because of certain circumstances, the flamethrower needs to be called by a different name altogether.

“Due to recent regulatory/ customs rules enacted to inhibit transport of anything called a Flamethrower, we have renamed our product: ‘Not a Flamethrower,'” Musk tweeted.

OK, so calling it a “Not a Flamethrower” may not be the most poetic way to refer to the $500 flame-throwing device — the Boring Co. took 20,000 pre-orders — but Musk isn't the most conventional of chief executives. Musk handed out the Boring Company's first Not a Flamethrowers at a company event over the weekend which, according to CNBC, included Not a Flamethrower owners using them to roast marshmallows and pose like they were thinking

of auditioning for the next “Terminator” movie.

And, hey, if that isn’t enough to get you excited about the Not a Flamethrower, think about how it can also help bring a young family together.

Musk tweeted an image of a young couple with a stroller, firing up their Not a Flamethrower. He wrote, “Nothing makes your baby more zen than a few gentle puffs of a TBC Flamethrower.”

Maybe the family that burns together stays together. But, remember…It’s Not a Flamethrower.

CHRIS RILEY/TIMES-HERALD Elon Musk tells fans that he has renamed his fire gun “Not a flamethrower” due to recent regulatory and customs rules.

BORING COMPANY When not using the “Not a Flamethrower” to roast marshmallows, partygoers were busy posing with the device.