In a real-world twist on the idea of The Hunger Games, Mork Encino has offered people the chance to hunt him in the woods for the relatively measly sum of $10,000 (for an extra two, he’ll do it naked).
According to Encino’s website (which I’m not linking to, for obvious reasons) he outclasses wild turkeys and wild boar (the turkey I can believe, but wild boar are notoriously nasty beggars. Just ask those folk on Game of Thrones) and is ‘willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for the monetary health of my family.’
Encino, who has been unemployed for over a year, isn’t actually crazy. Or rather, he’s on his way but hasn’t quite reached the final turn-off to his destination. His hope is that someone will see his ad and be inspired to hire him because of his ability to think outside the box and/or his willingness to go that extra mile to provide for his family. However, he is keeping the emails of the psychos who actually want to hunt him like a boar and will be revisiting them in six months. So yeah, not wholly happy describing anyone in that little transaction as sane.
Although Encino, at least, has the excuse of desperation.
Of course, the whole thing is enormously illegal. The world may be a plutocracy in many ways, but we are not yet willing to let people hunt other people for their own amusement. Not even on Survivor. Those people emailing Encino should probably think about what is likely to happen should he turn up dead – for the hard-of-thinking, this will probably involve his very upset wife calling the police and you ending spending a lot of time with people who just kill for free.
I can’t say that I think Encino is onto a winning idea here, although I hope I am wrong. Reading about this makes me feel bad for him, the situation for the long-term unemployed in the US is growing increasingly dire, but I wouldn’t hire him. Some plans might make you think ‘say what you like, he’s got moxy’, this one is more ‘oh, that’s never going to end well.’
For a start, it’s quite short sighted. $10,000, $12,000 if you get a psycho that wants to see you with your kecks off, isn’t going to keep his family for very long. That chick who sold her virginity got over $14,000 dollars, and that was for a flap of skin that no-one can see and nobody really misses. Even if he sets it up as group/competition event where up to say 10 people are hunting him at once – that’s only 100,000 dollars. I mean, don’t get me wrong, that’s a lot of money. It’s not set for life, never going to have to work again, put all the kids through college money.
Secondly, now a whole bunch of crazies who think hunting a naked dude through the woods for sport is a great way to spend the weekend know way too much about him. That’s not all that safe.
Still, I do wish Mr Mork Encino the best. I hope he gets a job soon and doesn’t end up running butt-naked through the woods. Hey, maybe Robin Williams can give him a hand up? Dude might be named after him, after all.
*image used from Surviving the Game, the 1994 that inspired Encino
