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Pay To Leave
Admission is Free, but leaving is another question. | |
I think it would be a great ploy for any public-related business. In stead of charging people admission, lock everyone in and then refuse to let them out unless they pay the exit fee.
Imagine all the free work you would get because of all the unknowing people that wander in because of the large
sign that reads "FREE ADMISSION!" in the front, but then can't leave because they don't have the money.
You would have free labor for a lifetime!
(?) Sort of halfbaked in a song
http://www.supergas...html/lyrics/mta.txt
"he may ride forever 'neath the streets of Boston..." [half, Oct 04 2004]
Baked in NJ
http://uncyclopedia..._Gotta_Pay_to_Leave
[footzilla, Jun 11 2005]
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The 2 other people in my Living Room who are cracking up right this moment are either easily amused, or this is a very, very, very good *and* evil idea. I choose All Of The Above. + *ding* |
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The nugget of the idea is baked here in the UK in a lot of multi-storey parking blocks - but not the 'free admission' signs - that is a nice touch.. |
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Very baked in clip joints in Asia, among other places (I suppose) in the guise of the establishment not revealing the extent of the tab until you leave. This has happened to me in Thailand. |
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My Dad told me of a co-worker in Tokyo who went into a bar and checked his coat, whereupon, looking at the bill of fare, he realized he couldn't afford *anything* in the place. Then he realized he couldn't afford to get his coat back. He wound up having to call his employer. |
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You're missing the key factor here: ATMs inside which charge exorbitant transaction fees...like the five-dollar ones you find in strip clubs. |
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"You can check out any time you like..."
...but it'll cost ya $10 to leave. |
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I just misread the title as "Pay Me To Leave" and thought: "Oh no, one of the trolls has turned to blackmail!" (Not you, of course, Raldo). |
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(runs out of halfbakery screaming) |
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Overpanic: and how would you know about those, I wonder...?
Raldo: I do think the car parks yamahito mentions Bake this pretty thoroughly, albeit without the element of fraud. |
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Or do as I did when I backpacked Europe on a low budget: enter through the museum exit and leave through the entrance. |
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If you take away the fraud part, the idea is baked restaurants as well. |
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I would vote for this idea if it was the exact opposite. That is, you go into a restaurant or bar, give them $100 (or however much you’d like to spend) and they keep bringing you food and drinks until you’ve spent all the money. |
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// Overpanic: and how would you know about those, I wonder...? \\ |
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Forget that, what's snarfguy doing in Thailand? |
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This isn't funny, my Scottish Grandfather starved to death in the back of a pay as you leave bus :-( |
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// Forget that, what's snarfguy doing in Thailand? |
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I just went there a couple of times on vacation is all. *With* my girlfriend. :) |
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The Boardwalk in Santa Cruz, CA does an even subtler
version of this. Admission is free, you can walk around as
long as you like, leave anytime. But if you or your
screaming kids want to actually DO anything (rides, games,
food), you have to start shelling out the cash. |
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Baked: It's called kidnapping. |
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This is, sort of, the philosophy of the strip in Las Vegas. The hotels are built like gigantic mazes, you can't tell whether it's night or day and it's next to impossible to find your way out. |
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//Baked: It's called kidnapping.\\
Stupop, no... kidnapping is when you TAKE someone... when it's the other way arround. The person walks in on their free will. I hardly call that kidnapping! |
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So it's not kidnapping when you trap people by luring them with bait and then demand a ransom to release them? |
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How the heck did you do that? I’ve been locked into this page all morning....Hummm, maybe if I click on the *vote for* button... |
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An Angler fish doesn't kidnap when it lures it's prey in... And if you think about it in that sort of sense, mine would be nicer to the people because the establisment wouldn't digest them. |
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While visiting the Turks and Caicos Islands in the British West Indies two years ago, when checking in to the airport to leave, I was told I must pay a Departure Tax of 15 dollars.
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I had saved 20 dollars to buy a gift for my gilrfriend in the airport giftshop... |
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she would have loved it.... |
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This is not kidnapping... |
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It's false imprisonment, which in most states doesn't carry the same penalty as kidnapping. |
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But it's still a crime. Fishbone on my way out. |
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I've heard Jamiaca charges $27 cash to leave the country. Anyone know if that's true? |
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Baked: An illegal cock-fighting club on the Thai island of Phuket used to pull this scam. |
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I was in a shop in wildest north Wales, where the shopkeeper loceked the door and wouldn't let you out until you bought something. Once I'd phoned the police, he let me out fast enough. |
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'isnt that a female eagle'
my friends can be soo stupid at times |
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Holding anyone without their consent or a court order is seriously illegal in all of the United States. The term is "unlawful imprisonment". |
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Yeah, I know this had to meant as a joke... free bone though. |
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As [snarfyguy] alludes, wouldn't this just collect people with no money until the place filled up? No more people can enter, but your stuck with maintaining the rest... |
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Plus what about the generally stubborn? On finding this out, I'd could see myself plopping down in a chair, arms crossed. "Oh, yeah? Fine, you gotta leave sometime, bucko. Hmmf!" ...followed by assorted evil looks and hecklings. |
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Everyone flitters in one-by-one. Everyone leaves at once... paying as you leave would take as least twice as long. |
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