After Balloon Boy and the White House Party Crashers, what’s going to be the next self-aggrandizing, dangerous, expensive stunt to get in the headlines? What do people have to do these days to get their own reality TV show?
- Hijack a cruise ship
- Marry a pack of dogs
- Stick a hand in a wood chipper
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Wage a long running war with gnomes?
1. Hang child over 10 storey balcony (nope, been done)
2. Gestate enormous numbers of children, either all at once or in sequence (nope, been done)
3. Travel to remote locale or time and set up housekeeping (nope, been done X n, where n is a very large number)
4. Place group of strangers in house with cameras tracking their every move (nope, been done)
5. Have conversation with enraged adolescent over the need to complete chores before going off to sports practice (definitely dangerous, likely expensive if there is throwing of objects, and very, very real).
Start a home-based cosmetic surgery center?
Drive SUV into tree while being chased by irate wife brandishing a 5 iron? Nah. Already rich and famous.
Many years ago I speculated on coming idiotic fads that may evolve from the Goth Experiment. I hope this does not happen but I foresee a future generation outdoing the Goths through “Cosmetic Amputation” in that the slicing off of body parts would be seen as “attractive” as sticking studs in one’s tongues or safety pins through eyebrows. One day teens will think it cool to lose pieces of ears, toes or fingers. I also thought I might write a story about this but the subject matter was too gross for me. :>)
Rich, if any kids read this it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How about “Survivor: Self-trepanation”?
Or Gargoyle, how about home, do-it-yourself cosmetic surgery? Liposuction with an attachment on your Hoover vacuum.
Ken, I did think about that possibility before posting and concluded that people who might be tempted by such foolishness are not likely to be readers in the first place. Meg has a higher class of fan base than that. :>)
Monita – self-trepanation has been done. I’ve seen videos posted by these folks out on teh Intertubes. Bit freaky, definitely not for me.