KidnApp - An app that lets you create and schedule your own private kidnappings

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11 points·ancarda··5 comments

I'm pretty sure this is fake because most arranged (consentual) kidnappings I've heard of have cost much more than $4.99/month.

I'm pretty sure it's a concept / hoax / Tacocopter-esque sort of thing. It looks pretty cool though.

Some background on the person behind the project: http://www.sosaythewaiters.com/

Maybe it's like a lottery where 1 member a month gets a kidnapping. The idea is super weird to me though.

A friend of a friend payed for college by doing kidnappings like this.

Basically, people would come to him wanting to be kidnapped, to feel a rush of adrenaline that comes with a life threatening experience.

Paying his rates for kidnapping -- 10K and up -- was not something a rational person would do. His clients were similar to those of the high-end dominatrix; rich, successful, people (usually men), with deep-seated complexes. Maybe the meaning had left their lives. Maybe a past trauma had gotten them addicted to adrenaline and violence. Maybe they saw themselves a big kidnapping targets, and the faux kidnappings were just training for the real thing.

Whatever the reason, people paid him to do it.

Assuming it wasn't fake, all sorts of things could go wrong with something like this. For example, what's to stop someone from scheduling a non-consensual kidnapping of another person as a prank?

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