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How to fry bugs -- and little siblings

While walking out of Beverages & More today, I spotted something that looked like a tennis racket -- except that the package said "Zap Bugs!"

Sure enough, there is indeed a product, shaped like a tennis racket, desinged to kill bugs. Instead of the normal taut strings on a racket, it has a mesh of wires. You charge it up with 2 AA batteries, and then you electrocute the bug.

Scary.

I have this image in my head of Calvin holding one of these, running after little Susie Derkins.

Posted by Mike at August 30, 2003 08:03 PM