Loan shark

I've got myself into a bit of a situation. I was already heavily in debt after coming out of university, and didn't really want to get a run of the mill job. So I sat at home thinking of a decent business idea to get things moving.

Eventually I settled on trying to sell a version of a US product to deal with dog dirt. In the US, there is an aerosol spray that freezes the dog dirt making it easier to pick up and dispose of. I figured that if that worked then a similar idea would work in the UK. As most people walk their dogs in the local park, I thought an ice pack that you put in your freezer and then leave on the poop to freeze it was a good idea. It takes a while, but you can re-use it so it's more environmentally friendly.

However, I didn't have any financing for the "pooper pack" so I had to go to a loan shark after all the banks I went to dismissed the idea. Unfortunately, it didn't take off - and 50,000 later the guy is asking me for 1000 a week - or I won't be walking in March.

Can anyone on here help me as to what I should do? Perhaps someone might like to buy my idea? You can have it, for the cost of paying off the debt - with a bit more marketing I'm sure it will really take off.

TIA

SF

You are desperate arent't you? Go visit CAB and ask about going bankrupt. Any hassle from anyone you go to the police.

Ok so far, if a little off the wall. The yanks do sometimes go in for some pretty peculiar things.

You did? Well, it's a stupid idea. Utterly nutterly. Not to put too fine a point on it, it's a totally crappy idea.

The idea is not sufficiently similar to the freezer can version, and it simply fails to make ergonomic sense.

Sure. As if people are going to take the time, before going walkies, to take the gel pack, or re-designed pink elephant, out of the freezer, put it into an insulated carrier box/bag, and take it with them, all on the mere off-chance that it will be required. Most dog turds are sufficiently firm to be picked up without prior thermal processing. You pop a clean bag, glove-like, over your hand, pick up the thing, then turn the bag inside out. No mess, no fuss, and if you *really* want to be environmentally friendly, you can, instead of throwing the bad with contents into your outside bin when you get home, drop the contents into your toilet and wash out the bag for re-use.

The only time this isn't going to work is when the excrement is not well-extruded, i.e. when it's soft and mushy. In that case it's conceivable that a freezer spray might help, but I can see no way that a lay-on pack is going to transfer enough heat out of the heap to achieve any useful solidifying effect withing the few seconds the punter is prepared to wait. Nay, folk here tend to prefer low-tech solutions, like a plastic spade and scraper. These instruments, too, can be glove-clad prior to action, so again there need be no mess, and the tools remain perfectly clean.

You didn't *have* to do anything of the kind. The banks knew the venture was bound to go down the pan, so obviously weren't interested. The sharks were not worried about your success or failure, relying instead of traditional techniques to secure their investment.

Not to worry. You'll have all these freezer packs still lying around from your experiments. Just apply them to your broken legs, and hey presto they'll be as good as new. For a while.

Change the name on your door. Change your hairstyle. Got a beard? Shave it off. Got none? Grow one. Change your dress style. When the heavies come, tell them that the loony inventor who used to live here has moved to America in the hope that his ideas will be better appreciated there.

Get a run of the mill job.

make yourself scarce. or go to the police.

This is a wind-up ?

Correct ?