A Company that Kidnaps Its Thrill-Seeking Clients
Posted: Tuesday 9 Mar 2010, under category Ideas
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Call it designer adbuction. A French company called Ultimé Réalité (whose slogan is, helpfully, the Dantean "Abandon all hope, ye who enter") provides high end thrills for wealthy adrenline junkies. Its services are centered around realizing clients worst fears - for the cathartic rush, apparently - and its latest offering has been making headlines, the "thrill" of being kidnapped.
The basic kidnapping basic starts at 900 euro, and involve taking the client by force, bounding and gagging him or her, and keeping them prisoner for four to eleven hours. Clients must of course sign a waiver beforehand, but they are not told when and how they will be taken, in order to keep them in suspense.
The company's offering does not stop at kidnapping, but puts no limits on the potential thrill-seeking scenarios."Basically, anything is possible. I identify what the customer wants and then try to put it into action," says Georges Cexus, the entrepreneur behind the idea.
More elaborate and costly offers are the manhunt packages, in which a client can choose to be either chased or to chase someone else; these can even include being chased by a helicopter. The latest services involve playing the role of a drug dealer smuggling cargo, and spending the night in a morgue. Clients can choose from the various package deals or create their own "made-to-order" service.
This seems like one of those things that someone saw in a movie and tried to recreate in real life.
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