Back to Dick’s Gadget Warehouse for the 'harmless' bug zapper.

About ten years ago there was a great chain of stores in NYC called “Job Lots”. They sold all sorts of merchandise from brand new appliances to one-of-a-kind gadgets. Sometimes they would sell merchandise bearing a famous name which turned out to be not famous enough so that people would buy their products. Sometime I would buy an off-brand item just for the heck for it. One of them was the under $10 bug zapper light in the photo. One of the fun things about the “boxes of crap” from Dick’s Gadget Warehouse I’ve been selling, is that I’m finding stuff I forgot I bought. Like that bug light. It was never used, just stored on a back shelf, hidden from view. We had a very, very wet spring in NYC and so there are plenty of flying insects in my backyard. I have a heavy-duty bug zapper, but it must make a sound that I can’t hear, but it makes Fairway uncomfortable and she goes indoors. So I don’t use it much. When I found this bug zapper, I figured it was small and maybe wouldn’t make the same sound as the industrial one. I tried it and it doesn’t bother Fairway at all. Probably because it doesn’t work at all, either. After three days there was no bugs in the cup at the bottom. After five days there was a single fly in there. When I tried the cup upside down to empty it, the fly flew away. He was just resting in there, maybe getting a tan. It was good for a laugh, and good enough to be this week’s Dick’s Gadget Warehouse Pick.

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