Beware strangers bearing gifts. Especially if the gift is the sperm they’re offering to donate when they pop around to your house, sample-cup in hand. Such is the message of The Man With 1,000 Kids ( Netflix from Wednesday) – a documentary in the hair-raising, brain-melting tradition of Tiger King and The Tinder Swindler.
The “man” referred to in the title is Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a Dutch citizen with multiple false names, surfer dude hair and a YouTube channel in which he eats raw meat. Would you accept a sperm donation from a raw meat-eating amateur surfer who looks like a paler cousin of Krusty the Clown from The Simpsons? Possibly, if they possessed the luxuriant hair that is Meijer’s most striking feature. “He had a beautiful head of curls,” said one of his “clients”.
“His hair was amazing.” Killer curls weren’t the only unusual thing about Meijer. He fathered multiple children – 600 in the Netherlands , potentially upwards of 1,100 globally, including as far away as Australia .
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