The best part of living on a college campus is the constant proximity to college kids willing to do dumb stuff. Come be one of those college kids with me. I’ve got an idea for something we could do as a community that would garner some nice cash for one skilled, most likely belligerent individual. It’s a game I like to call “Bounty Hunter.”

Here’s how it would work. Everyone puts $5 in the pot, winner takes all. I’ll go on the class registry and randomly select one student. If that student is on board, I’ll get them some dog tags. I’ll spray paint them yellow and green and give it “Grant’s Stamp of Approval.” It’s a postage stamp. That person will wear the dog tags under their shirt 24/7.

The goal? Find that person.

The only hint is a single letter of their name every two days. It’s not necessarily in the right order, just a random letter of their name. When you sign up you’ll get my signed head-shot. If nothing more it’s a consolation prize, but if you find the person you have to tear it up in front of them.

This is your one guess as to who it is, they won’t tell you they’re the person until you do. Don’t worry, I’ll give you another one if you win.

Couple ground rules. First off, you cannot forcibly stop/search people. If they are kept from doing anything so you can check them, you are in violation of the rules. Also no getting caught doing anything illegal. Note the wording: if there’s no police report, there’s no problem. Break any of these rules and you will only receive 1/4 of the money, I’ll confiscate the rest.

That being said, cheating is highly encouraged.

Now, of course, there’s the ethics conversation. For example, bribes: I will absolutely accept them. I might not give you the full name, but maybe give some cash, maybe let me pretend to exercise a demon from you in public, maybe you get a few letters.

So come one, come all and hunt down that piece of crap. Let’s have a good ol’ fashioned witch hunt people. Doesn’t that sound just the littlest bit fun? Or at the very least a way to scam some cash from strangers? It’ll leave you saying, “Wow, that was … meh.”

The point is come do a thing with people to win stuff, you’ve heard the spiel before.