Vice magazine got a press release for a new iPhone/Android app called HoboHunt, which involves taking pictures of homeless people and then superimposing guns and knives on them so it appears you’re assaulting them, kind of like this:

Cool, right? Isn’t this everything you want in an app?

It gets even more charming: The idea comes from a group of lawyers at a prestigious law firm who had a running joke of pretending to “hunt” homeless people they passed on their drive to work, says Joel Usher, who calls himself CEO of Synventus, the company that produced HoboHunt.

Don’t they think it’s a little, um, offensive? Apple does. The company has refused three times to publish the app because it’s so flagrantly derogatory. “Honestly, we were sort of banking on the controversy of it to get it attention and thus promote sales,” Usher told Vice. He expects people to “be initially uncomfortable taking pictures of real hobos,” and says they’ll probably just “take pictures of their friends.”

So it’s the camera app. Plus shitty-looking weapons. But if you want the seal of approval from the biggest assholes on the planet, there’s an app for that.

(image and source via Vice)

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