Bored with life? Want the ultimate hyperreal adventure? Over what the experience economy offers you? Want to retreat further into fantasy. Try this!
THRILL-seekers in France unimpressed by skydiving, rock-climbing and other extreme sports are turning to a new way of testing their limits – designer kidnapping.
For a £1000 ($A1640) basic abduction package, customers are seized by strangers, bundled into a car, bound and gagged, and kept in a cellar for four hours.
If that sounds too tame, boat chases and helicopter escapes can be added to the tailor-made experience, and customers kept for longer periods. The maximum incarceration time is 11 hours.
The website of Ultime Realite, a company in Besancon, eastern France, says: ”You will go through the real sensations of violence, terror and fear of a real kidnapping – a psychological shock that you won’t forget in a hurry.”
Customers explain how they want to be kidnapped and once the scenario is established, they sign a contract and liability waiver, but have no idea exactly when or where their abductors will strike.
”We follow you for a few days. At an opportune moment, in the street or elsewhere, we kidnap you,” the contract stipulates
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