I knew I had been right to expect the worst when, having softened me up with a glass of ant gin, he announced that his idea is: On-line Ant Racing.
He showed me a little race track he'd made, explaining that the ants would start at one end and race towards a sugar cube strategically placed at the other.
'People place on-line bets on the ants, then we show the race live,'
He paused for a moment – I thought he looked a little bit shifty at this point, but I said nothing.
'Then we pay out on the winning bets,' he continued, 'and bank the profits! Sweet or what?'
This is wrong on so many levels, but I can foresee such a multitude of practical and logistical problems that at this stage I'm prepared to let him carry on with his plans, in hopes that they will never come to fruition…
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