What was the most insane tattoo request you heard at a tattoo parlour?

I was asked by a research lab to tattoo three hamsters which were identical,

like a little symbol on top of two of them so each could be distinguished.

I wasn't sure if it was real or not as the interaction was over the phone.

I tattooed a couple of real characters over the years,

including one guy who kept getting the same tattoo over and over again, a tiger head, and eventually he just got little dots to fill in around them all.

And another guy who got vertical and horizontal lines on various body parts to make himself appear larger.

He talked about getting additional teeth implanted so he could process more food more efficiently and wanted me to be his disciple.

That guy was my craziest client for quite a while. I tattooed him July 4, 1993, the first time.

I remember so distinctly because I was dumb to open that day at all, and then he just showed up.

He just wanted lines, maybe 20 in all, like on his shins and forearms. Not his junk. I can see where

everyone's mind is going. He wanted to either appear taller or wider depending on the spot. I told him

80 bucks, which was outrageous at the time. He agreed, peeled off four $20 notes, and we went to work.

I remember when I did the last one, he just booked it. He grabbed his shoes and ran,

before I could even spray him down or apply whatever bandages I was using those days. Exactly, six months later he shows up again, wearing a straw hat with no top to it, just the brim, and wanted me to add arrow points to the lines, some going in and some out. He clearly had a plan in mind. Same deal, 80 bucks, even less work.

This time, though, I got more info about why he was doing it, that whole appearing bigger thing.

He came in one more time after that, no tattoos, just propositioned me with the disciple thing,

which I honestly would have discussed, but there was another guy in the shop who was asking

questions the first guy didn't like for whatever reason and he just took off never to be seen again

I had to go into a tattoo parlor to do some human trafficking education the owner was very receptive as I was showing him the tags used by traffickers active in our area

He became visibly uncomfortable and started calling over his artists it turned out they'd done dozens of one of these tattoos.

They thought it was a fad.

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