Want Free Rent? All You Need Is A Walrus Costume.

[Initech]

If you thought the strangest type of flatmate you'd find through the classifieds website Gumtree was an Australian one, think again.

Yes, take note, everyone - especially the people of Brighton - because there's someone in the Sussex city right now who's looking for a lodger. And that lodger's going to have to do something pretty special.

"Among the many things I have done in my life is to spend three years alone on St. Lawrence Island," writes the landlord/lady in question on Gumtree, innocuously enough.

But then they continue: "These were perhaps the most intense and fascinating years of my life, and I was kept in companionship with a walrus whom I named Gregory."

Mmm-hmm... Go on...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/06/12/gumtree-lodger-walrus-advert-weird-news_n_3428644.html

It looks like Gumtree is the British equivalent of Craigslist. But still...

[petronius]

1. It's never a good idea to mix business with pleasure

Personally, I always insist that my time as a walrus be un-besmirched by grubby capitalistic influences...