Feelling Lonely? Rent a Japanese Middle-Aged Man for $10 an Hour
Ossan Rental (or “Middle-Aged Guy Rental”) is the newest bizarre rental service in Japan. As the name suggests, it allows people to rent an average middle-aged Japanese guy for ¥1,000 ($10) an hour. There are a lot of crazy people-renting services in the Land of the Rising Sun, from the now famous Soine-ya Prime rent-a handsome-boyfriend service, to […]
Is Your Child Using Drugs? Rent a Trained Sniffer Dog to Find Out
German entrepreneur Reitner Reuther has made headlines in the national media for offering a very unique service. He gives parents who suspect their children of using illegal substances the chance to find out for sure by hiring a trained sniffer dog. Statistics show drug abuse among youth is an increasing problem all around the world, […]
Extreme Kidnapping – Detroit Company Abducts Clients for Fun
Extreme Kidnapping is a low-profile Detroit company that offer clients the chance to get abducted and spice up their mundane lives. The realistic experience includes getting handcuffed, slapped by goons, zapped with a stun gun and even attacked with police pepper spray. If you need a break from your boring life and feel that extreme sports like […]
Japan’s Lonely Youth Turns to Rent-a-Friend Services
Making friends is not as easy as most people think, but it seems that for young men and women in Japan it’s really, really hard. According to a recent article published in the country’s biggest newspaper, some people are finding it so difficult to make people like them that they prefer to pay for rent-a-friend […]
Japanese Company Offers Valentine’s Day Insurance for the Lonely
Valentine’s Day, the most romantic celebration of the year, is fast approaching, and while some people can’t wait to declare their love and shower their partners with gifts, flowers and chocolate, for others it’s just a day of painful loneliness. However, Japanese bachelors no longer have to worry about being the only ones at the […]
French Company Offers Thrill-Seekers the Chance to Be Kidnapped
A basic abduction package in France will cost you about $1,300. No, not the ransom, but actually getting yourself kidnapped. If you’re looking for an experience straight out of a Hollywood movie, Eastern France is the place you need to be, where a small company called Ultime Realite provides the unique service. The basic package […]
Brazilian Company Offers Fake Facebook Girlfriends for $20
Do you want to make your ex-girlfriend by hooking up with a hot chick on Facebook? Are your parents pressuring you to go out and get a date? Are you tired of being teased about not having a girlfriend? If any of this sounds familiar, know that there’s hope for you yet. It’s called Namoro Fake, and […]
Japanese Rent-a-Boyfriend Service Caters to Lonely Women in Need of Cuddling
Yes, Japanese women get lonely too, but luckily for them, there’s Soine-ya Prime, a dispatch service where women can hire a handsome young man to lay with her in bed for a night. Believe it or not there’s nothing sexual about it. Two months ago, we posted about Tokyo’s popular Cuddle Cafe, where everyone could lay down […]
Bald Billboard – Man Uses His Head for Advertising Space for $320 a Day
Last month, 27-year-old entrepreneur Brandon Chicotsky launched a unique service called Bald Logo, turning his bald head into a billboard for businesses willing to pay him $320 per day, and walking around Austin, Texas to get as much exposure as possible. How does the old saying go, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade”? That’s exactly […]
Fart By Mail – A Stinky Mail Service for the Adventurous
Fart By Mail, a California-based mail order service started by Zach Friedberg, offers people the chance to send friends or enemies stinky greetings that actually “smell like real poo”. Holidays are just around the corner, and if you’re looking for a really original way to send your season’s greetings, you might want to check out Fart By […]
“Who’s Your Daddy?” Van Offers DNA Tests on the Go
Believe it or not, there’s actually a van dubbed “Who’d Your Daddy?” driving through New York offering men the chance to find out if they are really the fathers of their babies. As you might expect, business is going well. You could say this unique RV parked randomly on the streets of New York sells […]
Professional Cuddler Charges $60 Per Hour of Cuddling and Snuggling
A lot of people like to snuggle and cuddle, but Jacqueline Samuel, from New York’s Rochester area, actually opened her own business charging $60 for an hour’s worth of non-sexual cuddling and snuggling. There are moments in life when you feel the need to cuddle, but you have no one to do it with. That’s […]
Takeaway Restaurant Offers Dirty Dishes Alongside the Food for Authenticity
UK-based restaurant Housebites decided to help people who can’t cook but want to impress their guests by offering them the dirty dishes alongside the food, so they can be more convincing. Not everyone likes to cook, but lost of people love to pretend they can cook, so British takeaway restaurant Housebites, decided to give them […]
Website Lets You Blackmail Yourself to Reach Goals
Aherk! is an ingenious online service that allows people to blackmail themselves in order to achieve their personal goals, through pressure. If you’ve had trouble dealing with personal goals, but always manage to do good in school or at work, you probably already know it has something to do with feeling under pressure. Some people […]
Evil Clown Will Stalk and Attack Your Child for a Fee
He may look like one, but Dominic Deville is not some escaped lunatic out to hurt your kids. He’s an evil clown for hire who stalks young victims for a week, sending them scary texts, making prank phone calls, stalking them from a distance, and ultimately attacks them with a pie to the face. And yes, […]