Scary clowns: the business model

If clowns terrify some people, why not monetize that fear?

Dominic Deville stalks young victims for a week, sending chilling texts, making prank phone calls and setting traps in letterboxes.

He posts notes warning children they are being watched, telling them they will be attacked. 

But Deville is not an escaped lunatic or some demonic monster. He is a birthday treat, hired by mum and dad, and the ‘attack’ involves being splatted in the face with a cake.

Infocult wonders just how many other business models await.  A bury-you-alive service?  

(thanks to Jesse Walker and jason kielbasa; photo via Chris-Rice)

Comments

[twitter.com/dethe]

I actually saw a bury-you-alive service on some TV show once, probably close to 20 years ago, for whatever that's worth. Another show where they were interviewing a guy who invented an unrelated device to detect whether a person being buried was still alive. The host of that one asked the inventor, "how did you come to think of this, did that ever happen to you [being buried alive]." The inventor nodded vigorously and said, 'yes, three times!"

We didn't have twitter or blogs back then, but we still had Infocult-scale weirdness.