I love this:

“I’d spend five quid on a crappy bike, then forty-five quid on really heavy-duty chains. Lots of them.

Then I’d find one of those prissy “bikes chained here will be removed” signs, probably in an outright bike-hostile area like Ganton St near Oxford Circus, chain the hell out of the bike, and retire to a nearby cafe with a video camera to await developments.

The resulting video, probably in time-lapse, should be highly entertaining. Five points if they have to get welding equipment. Ten points if they cut through the sign.”

Gwyn has it locked down.

“I know it’s not a new idea, but it often makes me very, very happy to imagine a small but visible sticker saying “…HAMMER TIME” at the bottom of STOP signs. I’d put it at the bottom to create the visual equivalent of a pause, a la MC Hammer. It’s just a shame this isn’t the £500 Danger Fund, and then I could attach speakers to the back of the signs that played ‘Can’t Touch This’ every time a car stopped at a given sign…

I would spend the £40 getting stickers printed and £10 on a hoodie to wear while putting them in place.”

Amy can’t touch this.

You know the best bit about the idea below? The guy is actually going to do it! Dressed in a Clancy Docwra uniform! Yes yes I know it’s childish…

“Dear Danger Fund. I would like £50 to rent ones of those line drawing machines they use for football pitches and some paint. I would use it to paint a enormous nob over the streets of London, the type that kids draw on toilet doors or on the heads of celebrities in magazines. It will be so big that only passing pigeons will be able to see what it is. The line would start with the words ‘Follow this line to see the biggest cock in the world’. It is crude but I think people’s curiosity will get the best of them. They will walk expectantly for twenty minutes or so, hoping the end is around the corner only to seemingly find nothing - finishing up confused, uncertain what had just happened, having wasted their time walking around in the shape of a big penis.

I’ve not decided where to paint it yet, but I’ll pick the place for a reason. Maybe it will go around the Daily Mail offices, or maybe it will just been in an area I think more people should experience. I am thinking of dressing up in Clancy Docwra uniform for the occasion.

I have decided there are several reasons to do this. One, it would be personally very satisfying to swear in such a huge way. Two, the idea of making people walk for a couple of miles in the shape of a penis is funny. Three - it may be the largest penis ever drawn and so might be eligible for the Guinness book of records (a boyhood ambition of mine).

Yours Truly, Cerne Abbas”

Here’s a nice one from Dan, although he says he can’t apply because he’s too lazy to actually do it.

“I was reading an article today about home/restaurants and thought that with £50 you could just invite 10 people into your home for dinner. May be make a big sign and display if for 10 mins until you have gathered the right number of people and then woosh dinner. You could probably even display the sign in covent garden and then get in a couple of cabs with the people… “

‘Hey how about I put the £50 on eBay and try to sell it for, like, £75!’. Before any of you lot send me this idea, someone’s already doing it here, and they’re not even doing it as a joke.

(Thanks to Henrietta)

Not a Danger Fund idea (check out our first idea here) but this would get my vote. This guy tapes rubbish bags to the subway grates in New York, and when the train passes beneath the updraft inflate the bags, shaped to look like animals. His first was a polar bear and now he’s done a giraffe.

Barely a day after the launch of the fund and we’d received both our first idea and our first £50 donation.

Both were from the same person. Giving your money away and then trying to win it back again - exactly the sort of needlessly dangerous behaviour that we like!

So thank you Matthew for getting the ball rolling. Good luck.

Here’s his idea…

“so, the idea is all up at http://disposablememoryproject.org but in a nutshell - we buy a load of disposable cameras, and leave them around london - in a plastic bag with some basic instructions. the instructions will ask the finder of the camera to take some photos, and pass it on to someone else (or leave somewhere to be found). if you finish the camera - we ask you to send it back to us, and we’ll develop it, and upload the photos. anyone who finds the camera can also visit the website, and say where they found it, so we can track its movements. hopefully, we’ll get some (probably not all) of the cameras back, and they’ll show a visual representation of their journeys. the money would go towards buying the first set of cameras (£2.50 a camera) and developing the cameras (about £6 i think).”

Lovely stuff…

It has happened. We have launched the £50 Quid Danger Fund. We’ve even got our own bank account.

But where does a Dangerous Fund place its assets? The most dangerous bank in Britain of course!

So with that in mind I called Northern Rock, reasoning that they could probably do with the money.

But instead of the outpouring of gratitude that I was expecting, I was told in no uncertain terms that my business would not be welcome at the Rock. Why? I like to think that it’s because we’re too dangerous for even the most dangerous bank in Britain. But the truth is that they don’t have a suitable low deposit community account for unregistered not-for-profit organisations. That doesn’t sound quite as rock and roll so make sure you tell all your friends it’s because we’re too dangerous.

Anyway, I’ve ended up opening an account with the Alliance & Leicester, much more accommodating and boring as hell. But then I guess your bank is one thing in life that you don’t want any surprises from.

Current balance: £0.00

Help revise that figure upwards by donating here.

Lots of people have really good creative ideas. Not just grand ideas about how to save the world but also silly little ideas that make them smile.

By giving out £50 to anyone, whoever they are, to do their great idea, we want to create thousands of little inspirations across the UK.

This is how it works:

Have idea. You have an idea that disrupts normality in a smart and surprising way and costs no more than £50 to do. Here are some examples of ideas that fit.

Send idea. You write down your idea in a few words (200 max) or pictures (3 max) and send it to us.

Get money. All of our selectors look at your idea. If just one thinks it’s good we send you fifty quid. No more, no less. And no further questions asked.

Do idea. You do the idea and tell us what happened. And if you do it for less than £50, keep the change.