Electro-collarWhen it comes to peoples' get rich quick schemes, the web never fails to deliver some thoroughly...erm..."original" ideas. One of the more recent ones is allowing people to pay you for the privilege of viewing you electrocuting yourself.

The idea has a virtuous conscience motive behind it. "Shocktheman" aka Jason Mitchell got a dog a while ago and decided to control it with a remote electric shock collar. In case it's not obvious, the deal is that if your dog misbehaves you send them a varying amount of electro-shock via a collar permanently adhered to their neck. Lovely.

However, the man eventually discovered that it was somewhat more than mildly uncomfortable and now feels guilty. To absolve the pangs, as well as undergoing much shock-therapy-for-cash, he is donating 10% of the proceeds to Lansing's Animal Placement Bureau who try to find nice places to live for homeless dogs. The rest of the money goes towards his college fund.

So when not out and about (because the collar can be inadvertently set off by all sorts of transmitty-things) he proudly wears an Innotek ADV-300 dog training collar. You can go to his website and sponsor him between $1-4 to make him shock himself on settings varying from mild to severe. If, however, you are more merciful, you can pay for him to not have to shock himself in the same manner. At the end of the day, the net amount of shocks vs no-shocks are added up, and he performs the duty he promised. Zzzzap!

You can watch him live on a webcam or for more leisurely shocktastic viewing, follow his video podcast.