Salt and Flies

Factual Questions
1

Ok see I was bartending at a bar when someone bet me $50 they could drown a fly in a glass of water and bring it back to life!

So I was like ok you’re on! There’s no way you can bring a fly back to life…what are you gonna do? Give it CPR? lol

So indeed…just to piss me off I think…he did!

This is how it went…he took a glass of water…caught a fly…put the fly in the water…waited until it quit moving around…alas the fly had drowned.

I told him No you wait a little longer just to make sure he’s dead (by the way is this considered cruelty to animals? err insects? LOL)

So anyways, he waits then takes the fly out puts it on a napkin, the fly isn’t moving it’s surely dead! He then proceeds to pour a ton of salt on it! In the mean time I’m laughing saying he’s not moving gimme me the 50 bucks! He says No just wait! After a few seconds the fly begins to move and walk around…then eventually flying away!

My question is…HOW on earth did this happen??

Granted it’s a good way to get money! Heck he made $300 that night with that “trick” on drunk people (no I wasn’t drunk LOL)
Any ideas?

Dawn

2

I’m gonna have to try that! I can always use the cash, but I think I’ll try it here at home first before I’ll bet fifty bucks on it in the bar.

By the way, did you get educated about not betting money in the bar?

WAG here, the fly looked dead, in that it was so thoroughly wet, it could no longer move, the salt absorbed all the moisture eventually, so that the fly was no longer waterlogged and could resume flight.
Of course, the fly could also have consumed too much of that beer and gone into an insect coma and the salt was just used as a hangover cure.

Who drank the beer afterwords?

3

House flies have a really tough drowning, in the typical sense. They have spiracles, instead of lungs.

The salt isn’t actually necessary to “revive” them, it just speeds up the process.

The next round’s on you. :smiley:

4

How many times do I have to preview to actually catch my mistakes?

That would be “really tough time drowning”

5

I guess I should have brought out the old encylopedia on that one huh?
Sigh, No wonder they are so dusty! :stuck_out_tongue:
Yes I have definately learned a thing or 2 about betting in bars!
A. if ya gonna bet money…Make sure you know what you’re talking about

B. Drunk people are often more quick witted than the sober!

See the irony in that statement! LOL

Thanks Guys I understand now I appreciate the insight! :slight_smile:

6

Actually, the fly was the brains behind the scheme, hiring the guy to front for him. The fly split 60/40 with the guy, and got the rights to use a small videotape of the performance on “Stupid People Tricks.”