Even More Unusual Businesses
Then there was the guy in Grand Rapids, Michigan, who collected the bodies of dead deer. The county needed the deer carcasses off the roadsides for health reasons, and contracted with this guy for $25 per body. I'm not sure how he disposed of them. Maybe his other business was providing meat to dog food companies.
When I lived in Traverse City, Michigan, someone started a dog poop cleaning business. If you want the dog without the responsibility of cleaning the yard, call A-1 Pooper Scooper. I'm not sure if this would be better or worse than a dead deer collecting business.
Here in Tucson, Arizona, there is a man who takes the leaves from palm trees and twists and turns them into amazing animal sculptures. He sells these for anywhere from $2 to $12 in the street. The palm-leaf scorpions are the best.
Unusual Online Businesses
You probably remember a few weird businesses from back before Ebay got all their rules. One woman was making thousands per month selling used panties to fetishists. She bought panties for her friends, who got them for free as long as they returned them to her unwashed, trading them in for the next new pair. The used and unwashed panties brought $10 or more on Ebay auctions and sold fast.
You may have heard about the online fantasy role-playing game Runescape. It has four million players now. What you may not know is that in addition to buying "virtual real estate" and earning online gold
pieces, you can buy these things for real cash. There are Runescape entrepreneurs who sell their online houses in the game for hundreds of real U.S. dollars. I think it would start to get confusing - what is real here and what isn't?
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