Venturous teenagers stage fights on request in Astana

Venturesome teenagers of Astana are offering a new service: they arrange staged fights for a fee for other teenagers, who want to impress their girlfriends, Express-K reports. A seventh grade student Alken, 13, and his team call themselves stunt performers. Almost all the boys in the teams go in for sports and most of them dream about a career in the cinema. "Some time ago our friend asked us to help him to impress a girl he liked. He was accompanying her home and we came across and pretended to start bullying them, then there was a staged fight where he beat us all. Afterwards we told the story to our friends and had a good laugh. But then one fellow asked us to arrange a similar thing for him. That was the start," the teenage told the pre-story of his business. According to the young entrepreneur, his team arranges an encounter and a "fight" in the agreed place and the agreed time for the client. The service costs 2000 tenge ($13). "We don't use guns or knives. However there was a guy who wanted him and his girl to be attacked by ninjas. But I thought it would seem improbable, because the success of our work largely depends on how realistic our performance looks," he said.