Dating misadventures often make for funny stories, but this one profile on a dating app is the perfect embodiment of dark humour. The profile in question belongs to a New York resident and begins normally enough - the man introduces himself as an entrepreneur who is interested in meeting women. So far, so good.
It’s only when potential matches reach the next sentence that they get a jolt. The New York entrepreneur reveals that he works as an executioner in Saudi Arabia as a “hobby.”
“I'm an entrepreneur and also work as an executioner in Saudi Arabia. If that scares you then l apologize. It's more like a hobby (I don't do it as often as before since I don't live in Saudi Arabia anymore),” reads his dating profile. “Other than that I like watching movies, going out, listening to music etc,” the man said.
The profile gained viral attention after an X user posted a screenshot of it on the social media platform. “Friend saw this guy on the apps lol,” the user wrote.
Take a look at the post below:
The post has gone viral with over a million views on X, along with hundreds of comments. People in the comments section were shocked and amused in equal measure by the dark turn that the introduction took.
{{/usCountry}}The post has gone viral with over a million views on X, along with hundreds of comments. People in the comments section were shocked and amused in equal measure by the dark turn that the introduction took.
{{/usCountry}}“My hobbies include listening to music, going out, cutting people’s heads off, watching movies, the usual,” joked one person in the comments section.
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“I’m telling myself that he has to mean something else and maybe English isn’t his first language and it got lost in translation but I can’t figure out what,” another said.
“The part that its a hobby makes it somehow worse,” a user opined.
Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world to still use decapitation (beheading) as a method of executing death row prisoners. Death penalty can be awarded for a long list of crimes, including homosexuality, adultery, murder and treason, among others.