Sending shit by mail: the unusual business that's triumphing on the internet
BarcelonaThe American edition of the magazine Vanity Fair invites celebrities to undergo an interrogation while connected to a lie detector. They ask them questions about their personal lives, and the polygraph detects whether they are telling the truth or not. A few weeks ago, actress Dakota Johnson participated and took the opportunity to confirm a rumor. They asked her if it was true that she had sent a box full of animal dung to a man. Specifically, a gallon of feces, which in our system of measuring volumes is equivalent to three and a half liters of poop. The little gift, therefore, was of considerable size. The actress corroborated this, and specified that it was gorilla dung. She confessed that she did it as revenge because that man, the recipient of the dung, had broken the heart of a very good friend of hers. The star of 50 Shades of Grey He explained naturally that there are websites dedicated specifically to this task.
It's easy to find. There are several portals for this purpose. You'll find them easily by putting send shit in a search engine. These are websites that combine the terms poop, shit, send either express and they ship all over the world. You can choose your favorite variety: cow dung, elephant caterpillars, horse droppings, or gorilla droppings. The most desperate can express their rage by opting for the Premium version: a multi-species combo, a kind of safari combo. They allow you to choose between the large and small sizes, and depending on the website, prices range from 15 to 100 euros. The most expensive is the megapack of mixed shit, which, more or less, has a volume that would fit in a mop bucket. There are offers or discounts if it's your first time ordering. We deduce, therefore, that there are regular customers who already have the habit of sitting in front of the computer to select the feces they send to their enemies. The image is endearing.
The websites claim to guarantee the sender's total anonymity. They only have to fill out a form with the victim's name and address for the package to arrive and pay for it as they would with any other online purchase. You can add a card with a message and even some decorative theme to the packaging: birthday, Christmas, or to mislead with some romantic motif to make the subsequent surprise more unexpected.
They don't detail how the shit is packaged to overcome regulations regarding the transport of biological substances.
In 1961, artist Piero Manzoni created a series of ninety metal cans. 30 grams of authentic artist shit was written on the label. Since they couldn't be opened, there has always been doubt about the actual content of the material he placed inside, a detail that made the artifact even more interesting. Over the years, some jars suffered leaks and explosions due to internal corrosion, which increased the paradox between the economic value of art and the fragility of the contents. Manzoni used it to provoke the public, to ironize about the art market and the sacralization of works. He elevated preserved shit to the category of art. And now, gorilla or elephant poop is a threat. low cost of those who can't digest, excuse the redundancy, frustration, or indignation. Manzoni took a cultural risk, while sending shit anonymously has become an attack for vengeful cowards. Manzoni's hunt was effective because it was signed, certified, and integrated into the artistic circuit. Now, does dried, packaged shit, which no one knows was sent and no one knows was received, qualify as shit, or is it just the scent of a coward?
