Why didn’t I think of this?
Damn, I could’ve made a bundle from full-diaried woolly liberals ( “Sorry, darling, my facial’s been booked for simply weeks“) during the antiwar protests:
German website offers rent-a-protester service
Can’t be arsed waving a banner? Click here
By Lester Haines
Published Wednesday 24th January 2007 11:46 GMTYou know how it is: you feel very strongly that the government really ought to address the issue of rampant unemployment among immigrant Romanian single mothers in the Frankfurt sausage-making industry, but can’t actually be bothered to get up off the sofa and hit the streets in protest. Fear not, for help is at hand in the shape of Erento.com, where agitators are renting out their services to worthy causes.
For example, as the BBC explains, “next to a black and white posed picture, Melanie lists her details from her jeans size to her shoe size and tells potential protest organisers that she is willing to be deployed up to 100km around Berlin”. Six hours of Melanie giving forth will set you back €145.
An Erento.com spokesman was “unable to say how many demonstrators had been booked since the service was launched earlier this month, but that there had certainly been demand”.
Indeed, German media has reported that a Munich march “hired protesters because its own adherents were too old to stand for hours waving banners”.
Presumably that 145 euro includes a portion for the legal and medical costs incurred when the protester gets their head kicked in by baton-wielding riot police?
