[lbo-talk] Weird rich people question

[Shane Mage]

>It is popular among wealthy Russians to go out on the street dressed 
>as a homeless person or street prositute (thay actually pay 
>companies tens of thousands of dollars to arrange this). My question 
>is, is this just some bizarro New Russian thing, or is it practiced 
>elsewhere? I have never heard of it in the West.

Maybe they're imitating such larger-than-life historical
figures as Sulla, Messalina, Nero, and Haroun-al-Rashid?

Shane Mage