Why don't I get ideas like this? College student Skyler Bartels set out to spend a week in a Wal-Mart during his spring break. He lasted 41 hours. What did he do?

He checked out shoppers, read magazines, watched movies on the DVD display and played video games.

He bought meals at the in-store Subway sandwich shop, but was able to catch only brief naps in a restroom stall or on lawn chairs in the garden department...

Wal-Mart spokesman Kevin Thornton said Bartels neither violated store policy nor broke the law.

"We were unaware of his presence and if we were aware of it we certainly wouldn't have condoned it," Thornton said. "We're a retailer, not a hotel."

 

A Book and Movie Deal are in the works. No joke. (Via BoingBoing)