Things I say and people aren't sure if I am serious or not.

I drive around Chicago a lot and I keep thinking there is more and more graffiti everywhere.  So I tell a guy retiring that has socked away a lot of cash this idea:

Graffiti Supply Truck - think of it as a food truck with supplies for your daily gang bangers.

Paint, respirators, cheap ladders, gloves, hoodies, masks, tape, flashlights along with snacks as you're out all night.  I show up late in the night and have supplies for these taggers.  I figure we can outfit a van for $75,000.   Interested in buying in?

The retiree guy didn't know if I was serious or not?

Ever pull questionable ideas on people?

In reply to Datsun310Guy :

I have, then a few years down the line someone made a E36 M3 load of money from it.

Back in the days of palm pilots and blackberries a buddy and I invented uber in the bar one night because the taxi service shut down at 5 but the bars are opened till 2. Nobody thought it would work because "who carries a computer?" and "what's an app?"

Break rooms, where you pay to go smash stuff. Nobody wanted to help despite having lots of empty retail space, then BAM, a dozen of them popped up for a couple years. 

Paying people to wait in line for things, another one I'd put much thought into but couldn't get any help with the coding. 

Oh. Well, due to the thread title, I have the ability to say something that is a complete lie and it seems the absolute truth, even if it's absurd. I can't do this on purpose, however. Another useless superpower.

I spearheaded an ambitious proposition in Los Angeles.

If you want to have a strip club in L.A. you have to have an address, but the way the law is written it can be interpreted as... if you don't have an address, you don't need a permit.

I went as far as trading a laptop for a rusty box truck to make a mobile strip club.  I had planned on installing seats and a brass pole, but the folks at city hall were uncooperative.  So instead I drove the box truck as a DD.  Everywhere in L.A. there are commercial loading zones  on each block.  I just parked the box truck in a commercial zone and enjoyed free parking.  In the 6 years I lived in L.A., I would guess I saved over $1400 in parking, then I sold the box truck for $3200.

Thanks, Los Angeles.

I would wonder if, legally, you could be implicated as an accessory to crime, drug dealers are "only supplying" right? 

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

Honest question on this. How do you find the "girls" for stripping? I've never pondered this until now, and I've never been to a strip club. 

In reply to LeftLaneLoser :

I'd imagine you could start with craigslist, or going to a strip club and asking the girls.  I don't imagine that "hey, you wanna dance in the back of my box truck" would be very popular with them, though.

In reply to LeftLaneLoser :

My primary incomes when I was in L.A. were bartending and acting.  Strippers were everywhere in my life and I don't think I went to one strip club in my entire 7 years in L.A.  I dated a Filipina woman when I was there.  She herself was not a stripper, but all four of her sisters were.  The one bar where I worked was in Silver Lake which is halfway between a bunch of strip clubs and midtown/Hollywood.  The dancers would frequent my bar in hopes of meeting B-list celebs to be sugar daddies.  It was fun to watch some 22 year old desperate stripper newly from Oklahoma trying to take Lou Diamond Philips or Gwen Stefani home and failing.  But hey... it paid my rent.

And, by the way... I have much respect for dancers of that sort, but I did learn a valuable distinction:  There is a big difference between "dancers" and "strippers."

I also went to many Hollywood events as part of my job.  Those events included tons of hired women to make it look like the event was a special thing.  Most of them were dancing women.  Hire hot women dressed suggestively, and the paparazzi goes nuts.  I bartended a gig on Sunset for some magazine bigwig's birthday.  They informed me that "these women get free drinks" and the list was 8 pages front and back.  Probably 250 women who were hired to be there just to look good.

In reply to LeftLaneLoser :

They're individual contractors not your employees. Advertise it like any other job but instead is a mobile strip club. 

Mr_Asa said:

In reply to LeftLaneLoser :

I'd imagine you could start with craigslist, or going to a strip club and asking the girls.  I don't imagine that "hey, you wanna dance in the back of my box truck" would be very popular with them, though.

You might be surprised.  I was planning to park the truck on West Sunset at midnight and keep it there until about 4am.   I figured I could charge $50 per person and I could fit 14 people at a time.  Half hour sessions with four dancers meant 14 x 50 x 8 sessions.  At full capacity, that's $5600 per weekend night.  Share 25% with the dancers which is $1400 or $350 per dancer plus whatever tips they get.  Easy $4000 per night for me or an extrapolated $8000/wk if I worked 4 nights per week (averaged out for slow nights).

All in a bartered box truck.  I had it all planned... keeping the box truck rusty and ugly and using back channels to only let about 50,000 people know about the whereabouts of the truck using code words.  It would have been epic until I got arrested and thrown in jail for 40 years.

Getting the dancers was the least of my troubles.  I had 15 or 20 on my friends list (Myspace days) ready to sign up.

Second question- how do you "find" a mobile strip truck? 
 

third question- will we have a challenge sub class for them?

In reply to LeftLaneLoser :

Hard to see the flailing dancers inside the truck on the track which would be the real fun of the event.

Finding the truck started with someone offering me a free wasted step van.  I was able to get it running and trade it for a motorcycle and a laptop.  I then traded the laptop for another step van. (and ironically, the motorcycle I traded for another laptop) Mid 80s GMC with the 6.2L diesel.  It had cheesy woodgrain paneling inside and shag carpet which was the genesis of thinking strip club.  It looked like a 70s strip club inside.  Once I pulled all the Disco and disappointment out of the box, it revealed a lovely blank canvas.

Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:

I bartended a gig on Sunset for some magazine bigwig's birthday.  They informed me that "these women get free drinks" and the list was 8 pages front and back.  Probably 250 women who were hired to be there just to look good.

Speaking from experience, life is good when you're attractive.  

This, but with strippers

also this

I keep suggesting that, instead of carrying cell phones and paying a bill every month, we could simply install a network of pay-per-use phones across the country.

We could even put them in a small shelter that you could go into and shut a door behind you to have privacy so that nobody else would have to listen to your conversation and things could be kept private.

Some sort of "pay phone" installed in a "phone booth" kind of idea.

Everyone thinks I'm crazy.

Some idiot says that you can use your phone to type messages to people. What a bloody idiot. who would use a perfectly good telephone to type out a message?

Or maybe this, your house is warm, right? But you need to keep food cold.

So, inside your house, we build a cold box to keep food in. 

But then your butter is too hard to put on bread but you can't leave it out or it will go bad.

So, we build a little box inside the cold box that is a little warmer than the cold box but not as warm as your house so the butter is always the right temperature.

Crazy ideas huh?

In reply to ShawnG :

I often thought that a mini-split fridge would be a great idea.  Think about it.  It's cold outside, so you run heat to keep the house warm, then use a compressor to transfer heat out of a fridge.  During the cold months instead of running a compressor to cool a fridge in a hot kitchen, just route the refrigerant to an outside condenser.  I had that idea because I frequently keep fridge items in my grill on the patio in the winter.  I had a buddy who did a similar thing at the lake.  He went and got about 500' of poly hose and sunk two runs in 90' of water.  Down there the water is about 45 degrees.  By running a pump, he was able to keep his beer cooler cold by circulating cold lake water through it.  I often questioned the environmental impact of returning warmer water to the depths of the lake, but I imagine the tiny heat load in that huge lake probably didn't amount to much.

My first million-dollar idea was to have a suction-cup soft brush that you stick to the wall of your shower.  Put a little soap on it then rub your back on it.  Washing your back is always the toughest part.  Totally useless, but I think people would buy it from an infomercial.

Back 20 years ago when the hot diet scare was cholesterol, I wanted to market little tubs of pure cholesterol.  You know, like the single-serve ice cream cups with the paper top and little wooden paddle/spoon?  Just like that with cholesterol.

I figured all the foods that taste good were laden with the stuff, so pure cholesterol must be the gold that makes things taste good.

In reply to Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) :

MSG

I want to make hemp based fender flares and body kits. 

"Hot boxed fender flares" 

I legitimately think this could be highly profitable, no pun intended. 

captdownshift (Forum Supporter) said:

I want to make hemp based fender flares and body kits. 

Made from fibreweed, circa 1978