Doofus Of The Day #412

What do you call someone who intends to allow anonymous Internet voters to decide whether he should live or die? I call him our Doofus Of The Day! Metro UK reports:

Russian artist Oleg Mavromatti will strap himself into an electric chair this week and ask online voters to decide whether he should live or be shocked to death.

The artist is no stranger to controversy, having previously shocked religious leaders by 'crucifying' himself for an exhibition.

He then fled to Bulgaria from his native Russia to avoid charges of inciting racial hatred.

In this new stunt, Mavromatti is offering critics a change to get their own back by electrocuting him with thousands of volts.

He will strap himself into an electric chair and ask visitors to the project’s website to place their votes.

100 votes are required for the first 600,000 volt shock, lasting half a second, and 1,000 votes for the second, lasting 1.5 seconds.

The online performance, titled Ally/Foe, will see the artist subjected to a series of five shocks increasing in strength until he dies - depending on the number of votes.

The project’s website states the online performance ‘gives an opportunity for the participants to vote for or against the justification of artist Oleg Mavromati’.

The artist has said: ‘I just want to conduct an opinion poll, just like any normal sociological study does. That's all.’

Given the number of dumbasses, trolls and low-lifes floating around on the Net, I suspect Mr. Mavromatti may come to regret his idea . . . albeit not for long!





Peter