Kidnap Me Please
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Paying someone to kidnap you as a form of adventure used to be a steady part of mass market suspense fiction. You really can pay to get yourself abducted, caged, interrogated or forced to diet.
… Other clients want to be stalked or ‘to feel like they’re slowly going crazy’.
There are still classic kidnapping scenarios, though. After a design process that can take months, as well as interviews with psychologists and medical tests (in which many clients are rejected), VAS provides a ‘window of opportunity’.
According to Paus: ‘In that window – which could be a week or it could be a year – certain things that have been designed will happen to you, and you don’t know when, how or where. That builds a huge amount of anticipation and suspense.’
Then there’s the ‘hit’: the point at which the client loses control.
‘It’s the moment when they become 100 per cent manipulated by us,’ says Paus. ‘It could be on a street where it just so happens everyone is an actor or it could be people jumping out of a van and bringing you to a basement.’
How to book yourself a designer kidnapping
