Watch Where You Step!

Remember when all we had to worry about was that silly underage foursome billboard? This morning was so innocent... but then we read about 48-year-old Georgio T., who gets his kicks by covering himself in carpet and letting people stand on him at bars. The NY Times reports that "the more people who step on the carpet, particularly if they are women in heels, the happier the man is"—and he told them he would be most aroused if two girls stepped on him and made out. He calls himself the Human Carpet and says when he was a youngster he “loved to have weights on me. I liked having my cats walk over me.” Now he gets paid around $200 per session, plus tips, and works a few times a week around the city, from the Meatpacking District to the Lower East Side. Not every night is full of action however, recently at a party at the Skinny on Orchard Street there was a hipster crowd, "not his most enthusiastic clientele, and there were long periods in which he simply lay there, motionless, alone in his carpet."

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on June 15, 2009 3:58 PM

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r1b2

This is really sad. I keep commenting how frustrated I become by stories about people with empty lives working so hard to fill them. Why didn't this loser turn his energy instead to stamp collecting or bird watching or bank robbing? This is just pathetic.

Myhoo

Say's the guy who probably couldn't pay a girl to even look at him for more then 30 sec.s! Its HIS life, let Him live it!

derektut

I remember a guy out in SF about ten years ago that liked to have attractive women throw pies at his face at bars. Oh yeah, and then there was that woman who loved latex balloons, to the point of giddiness.

Funny. Never seem to hear of these things when Republicans are in office.

WestVillageVintage

I stood on him before he went to bars. It must have been early in his in his carpet man development.

NannyState

"Wall-to wall...EXCITEMENT!"

Snoopy

Move on people. This is a Persian plot to upgrade your living room, nothing more, nothing less.

al oof

remember when this was in the news 10 years ago? yeah. it wasn't really news then either.

al oof

remember when this was in the news 10 years ago? yeah. it wasn't really news then either.

REALITY CHECK

This guy ripped off Kevin Carpet who's been doing it for many, many years. Seriously, where have you all been?

gothamguy

Would you say he pulled the rug out from under him?

gothamguy

Would you say he pulled the rug out from under him?

Amanda Spurlock

best thing i've read all day

Tower18

I want to go out and learn Riverdance just in case I ever see this guy...I'll do a few routines on top of him [that's what she said]

John_Matrix

this man is the vito acconci of our time.

bklynbagel

i think i stepped on him at a goth party last halloween. it was strange at first but then my friend just started jumping up and down on him for a few minutes. i dont think he enjoyed too much

remsen

I bet this is carpet that never gets laid.

Myhoo

Why would he want to if this is what turns him on?

firewire

i feel like this is the beginning to an episode of CSI.

just saying

It's always fun and games--then a 250 lb. dude steps on you...

valeriob

awesome! summertime bonus: chicks in skirts

Rocknrope

What if I have dogshit on my shoes, on purpose?

Rach

I've totally stood on him. He was laying by the bar at some party and everyone was stepping around him. I've seen carpet dudes before so I thought I'd make him happy and just stand on him for a bit. Everyone else there seemed totally stunned by this. Not that I'm into standing on people or anything... I just figured why not?

akachris

"...Now he gets paid around $200 per session, plus tips, and works a few times a week around the city, from the Meatpacking District to the Lower East Side..."

He's getting paid to have his fantasies fulfilled??!!? Shouldn't he be paying the bars??

For $200 per session plus tips, I'm sure some desperate broke people would be willing to go through the pain and humiliation.

Qraymond

I am confused, fascinated, and horrified.

Reflect

Whats going rate for kitty crush fantasies these days? 5000 for 90 min no sex session. a pair of free manolo blanics, and all i have to do is crush a baby kitten? Cold cold woman that is. Even crazier just to do it for money. Im sure this guy would know. What else humans what else?

Amanda Harletsch

Can you try to top kinky without killing anybody?

Too difficult?

One one for ya: ETHICS. Look it up.

poormansversion

Let's face it - if Georgio T. loses this job, then the terrorists have won.

Rocknrope

Remember that storyline in the tv show "The Practice" where the Fonz was a dentist who was into crush fantasies and he would have women step on bugs in his dental office, and in the end the "crusher" woman who was killed in his office was killed by his son, who then committed suicide?

That was one f'd up storyline.

imadick

was that the tv show with the chick from 'twin peaks'. now *that* show had some f'ed up storylines.

hotstepper

does he trim his carpet before he goes out?

longacre

Wait, if he's the one getting off, why is HE getting paid? He should pay us for stepping on him.

Guest

because he's smart.

Snoopy

Too bad my dog died a few years ago. He really liked to piss on the carpet.

YaGo

i'd love to accidentally drop my drink on him.

rbeshenk

I've met him in and out of his carpet. Great accent. Interesting guy.

mmlanglie

ok...what?!

Reflect

This is that twisted fetish some guys have I heard about.

They have crush fantasy's or parties. And since they cant tolerate too

much weight, I heard they get off on watching kittys or small animals being crushed by tall women. This takes the cake for me as far as crazy goes.