33 of the Funniest Reasons People Asked for a Loan
‘I need to build a house for my monkeys’
Most of us could use more cash for the general costs of being alive, but some people need extra funds so they can make their dreams a reality — like the guy who wanted to construct a home for his pet monkeys (yes, plural), or the person who wanted to “build a giant space station” so they could “destroy a planet” (planet unspecified). One woman requested a loan to enact her revenge fantasy of buying the school she was flunking out of so that she could fire the teachers who were “plotting against her.”
The bankers of Reddit have disclosed the funniest times people requested a loan from them, and while all of these loans were denied, the requests shed genuine insight into what people would do if they could secure some extra scratch.