Look South Column

Fancy borrowing a homeless person?

“Homeless in Paris” by Arslan is marked with CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.

Recently, I read that it will soon be possible to ‘borrow’ living people from a public library in Holland. The library, based in the town of Almelo, will ‘lend out’ people of various descriptions, including drug addicts, physically-disabled people, homosexuals, asylum seekers and Roma people. The idea is that you can reserve a person and meet them for 45 minutes, asking them…