A hotel that charges not by the hour or the day — but by how much you weigh

That's right.

Jürgen Heckrodt (left, above), owner of the Hotel Ostfriesland in Norden, Germany, got tired of big people wearing out his furniture.

He instituted a pay-by-the-kilogram policy to give lightweights a break.

You pay one-half a euro per kilogram per day to stay in his establishment.

Those weighing over 78 kg (172 lbs.) are excused from excess baggage charges: the maximum daily rate is €39.

[via Dr. Yoni Freedhoff's Weighty Matters]