Weird News of the Day

Talk about an easy way to make a buck. Most kids would probably be happy to do this for nothing.

A Thousand Oaks man was arrested this week on suspicion of paying a teenager $31 to spit in his face, authorities said.

The 39-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of annoying a child, a misdemeanor, about 7:10 p.m. Wednesday at the Promenade at Westlake in Thousand Oaks, police said Thursday. The man had been paying male students at Westlake High School to yell profanities at him and slap and spit at him in his face, according to Thousand Oaks police.

Several teens also alleged that the man offered to pay them to urinate and defecate on him, police said.

The man initially contacted the teens through the MySpace social-networking Internet site, then word spread among local teens, police said.