Free Hugs

[zotz]

There's a guy by the Tron Kirk with a big sign saying "Free hugs". While I was walking past, someone took him up on the offer. They had a big hug, shook hands, and the other man walked off.

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[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

There's a YouTube about someone doing this - wonder if it's the same guy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

[zotz]

Could be. Looks very similar.

Very whimsical. Lightened my day.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Go on, go and get a hug!

[zotz]

I'm not walking all the way back into town for that. If I give the cat some biscuits, he'll give me one right here in the kitchen.

A hug, that is. Ahem.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

Video looks like Sydney, though, so he's a well-travelled hugger.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a franchise?

[zotz]

It's free, though. I don't see how it would work commercially - unless they're just building up market share and will start charging just before their IPO once they've created demand?

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's a franchise for karma exchange instead of money?

[anjylle.livejournal.com]

If it is, he's a long way from Sydney! ^_^

[zotz]

Apparently he's been breeding, too - Seth saw two of him.

[felishumanus.livejournal.com]

apparently london has a kissing booth today

did once find a hug for sale on eBay..a real hug to be delivered in person

[zotz]

Who was to pay the travelling expense? Could get costly.

[felishumanus.livejournal.com]

no idea it wa sa couple of years ago and no one bid..poor guy

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

Is it Free Hug Day today? I think it does exist.

[zotz]

National Hugging Day is apparently January the 21st.

There's a Witchipedia page on the Free Hugs Campaign too, but it seems to say that Free Hugs Days have been held on various dates.

[anonymouseth.livejournal.com]

there were a coupla guys on princes street last weekend offering the same service - not australian by the accent...

[zotz]

Two of them? It's catching, then.

Looks like

[rhubarbfool.livejournal.com]

the guy who was doing the same thing in Market Square, Cambridge a few weeks ago, maybe it's a world tour.

Re: Looks like

[anonymouseth.livejournal.com]

...or a pickpocket scam :)

Re: Looks like

[(Anonymous)]

or a hug scam where you pretend to give away free hugs but you end up being given free hugs instead.

[kixie.livejournal.com]

Aww. That's a lovely idea but I'd hesitate to do it in most areas of London.

Or in the States, someone would probably slap the poor guy with a sexual harrassment suit.

[nisaba.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's brilliant :)

[rdi.livejournal.com]

Someone was doing that in Dundas Square (downtown TO) a while back, too.::googles:: In fact, there seem to have been a few such events, this being the latest.

[bighairydave]

Since we're hug-spotting, this has been going on in Washington square park in NYC for quite a while.

[deliberateblank.livejournal.com]

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2006-11/06/content_725199.htm

[tribeca-tom.livejournal.com]

Free Hugs?

They were giving out free condoms on the snow covered streets of New York this lunch time.

www.nyccondom.org

[zotz]

Ah, those sex-crazed Yanks? What would you do with them? Apart from bonk them rigid, obviously.

I hope they were planning on people taking them home before using them. You could get frostbite in awkward places.

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

Yeah this sort of thing turns up on the TV news occasionally (quiet day no doubt). And wasn't there a song with video or a film about someone doing this some years ago? Yeah, must be a franchise now ;) I'll wait for the rural tour.... no actually, I'll just go visit a friend...

[grendelis.livejournal.com]

Better for females - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4131508.stm

[zotz]

In health terms, I'm sure.