Shock and Awful

The flies around here get really bad in the summer, and in anticipation of that, our boss picked up an electric fly swatter. It looks like a small tennis racquet with little metal rods running across it horizontally. It's powered by only two AA batteries, but it packs quite a whallop. It's also turned everyone in the shop into eight-year-old boys, sneaking up and shocking each other on the ear. It sure does a number on insects, though. If you put a dead one on the rods and hold the button down, they'll start smoking and sometimes even catch on fire. Yep, eight-year-olds, I tell you.