Buy me £475 of KFC gravy and I’ll dive right in

STUDENT’S CRAZY CROWDFUNDING BID

SEAN Gibson loves KFC gravy.

He loves it so much, in fact, he wants to bathe in it.

“It is a lifelong dream of mine to bathe in KFC gravy,” said Sean, from Felling.

“I love KFC gravy and it would be a pleasure.”

But his “lifelong dream” come cheap.

The 18-year-old reckons it will cost £475 to buy enough “finger lickin” brown stuff to fill an entire tub.

And the cheeky chemistry student wants strangers to pay for it.

He’s turned to GoFundMe and, so far, he’s raised nothing.

But Sean freely admits: “The idea started as a joke and it’s nothing more.”

In the North, he’s not alone in trying to jokingly crowdfund some cash.

One bloke asked for a tenner to buy some cigarettes, while another asked for money to fund their Pokemon hunting.

Someone from Sunderland even won’t asked for £16 to get a Domino’s Pizza for their tea.

Unsurprisingly, to date, none have received any cash.

But sometimes – just sometimes – they actually work.

One Geordie also wanted £100 to fight the demise of the semi colon. So far he’s blagged £15.

And, in 2016, Newcastle Uni student Emma McCormack asked strangers to pay off her £1,600 student debt via the site.

“Initially the page was set up as a status joke between me and my friends, almost like a satirical stance on how expensive everything is for students” said Emma at the time.

But it worked – one mystery donor even gifted over a grand.

However, GoFundMe does have a serious side.

Since its 2010 inception, the American-based site has raised around $5bn for causes – both good and mad.

Many fundraising pages focus on helping people battling cancer, volunteering or those who have suffered an ordeal.

The site’s largest pot to date, over £21m, was raised in support of the “Time’s Up” sexual harassment movement. “We see all sorts of people raising money for almost everything you can think of,” said GoFundMe’s John Coventry.

“The causes are pretty broad, but we have a rigorous set of global terms and conditions and will remove any campaign that violates them, including hate speech, anything that promotes violence, firearms and harm to others.

“We also have a big team of people making sure campaigns are legitimate and that there’s a clear way of funds raised getting to the right place.

“We work hard to make GoFundMe a platform where people can raise money and give to a huge range of causes, but we also want to ensure the platform is safe for everyone.”

For Sean, he doesn’t really expect his gravy dream to become a reality.

“Not in a million years do I think anyone would be daft enough to pay for it,” he admitted.

“But if they are, through with it!”

And if the money doesn’t roll right in, at least he won’t be alone.

At least three accounts exist from Sunderland supporters trying to crowdfund enough cash to buy the club from owner Ellis Short.

To date, they haven’t raised a penny. I’ll happily go Sean Gibson from Gateshead, who is crowdfunding so he can bathe in KFC gravy