Woman hangs herself from hooks in protest !
Where are the Qaws people ??
An artist pierced her skin with shark hooks and hung herself from a shop ceiling in protest at the treatment of the animal.
Alice Newstead took the drastic action in protest at the practice of finning – where sharks are impaled on hooks, before their fins are sliced off to harvest meat for shark fin soup. The sharks are then thrown back into the ocean still alive.
A crowd gathered outside the Lush cosmetics shop in London's Regent's Street to see the 26-year-old impaled by hooks in her back and gasped as blood trickled down her back.
Miss Newstead said: "I am doing this because the demand for shark fin soup and other shark products is wiping out the shark population.
Shark finning has been blamed for pushing many species of the fish to the brink of extinction and since 1970, several species have been reduced by more than 90 per cent.
Miss Newstead, who was born in Northampton and lives in Watford, left her job as a Lush sales assistant in June, so she could work full-time as an artist. She performs with a group called Constant Elevation, whose members specialise in hanging from hooks pierced through their skin."
Telegraph
Well if she loves sharks too much then she should play with them in a pool or in the oceans. Punishing her self cannot make any difference.
Those sharks whose fins are cut away do survive in the oceans and dont die. Not a big thing to do with a shark at least :-).
There u go - not as obscure as u might have thought :)
Oooohhh!!! LOL.
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Oh, I see! :) Check Mis-Cat signature
"My philosophy lecturer came to Toronto to see me after I finished university. We were in love."
Perhaps it was a joke that I missed? Which is likely, I just didn't know what that had to do with, well, anything. LOL
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God, its bluddy addictive once u get going, the old QL innit?!
I'm sure I don't understand, but I'm glad you're not worried no more :D
Oh Stratty, you have no idea how glad I am that you are a-ok. Had me worried there for a minute. :P
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Brit you manfeminist, Id have said the same thing had she been a man.
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Oh no, labda06, it was good :) BTW I think your Jaws post is "post of the thread", sharks are rubbish, they want terminating!
It's only ironic if we assume that all women would be united, irrespective of the specific principal.
I wouldn't with agree with all males, regardless of what they did, just cos they were men...
Stratty...JUST SAY NO!!!!
...what is it with QL. Some days people are fine, and bham! They're gone. Unbelievable.
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G0od observation Brit! Ironic isn't it?
Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi
My philosophy lecturer came to Toronto to see me after I finished university. We were in love.
i dont really agree with hunting some animals but I dont go and shoot myself....
A woman endures pain for her priciples and beliefs and all the females make fun of her..
this is ART, my dear
next time..poison? :)
silly cow.... what a nutter.
Someone lend her Jaws. She'd change her mind real quick about sharks.
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I bet joker would be a big fan of her lol.
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Gosh! terrible!
.weirdo with a cause.....
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Mis Cat
I like your quote! Is it all yours?
Maryum : Umm Hasan bint Abdullah Alshabrawishi
"Being hung from the chest is more painful than the back because it restricts your breathing, but as long as the piercer knows what they are doing then it is completely safe," she said.
Probably Play piercing as well??
"Your born, You Live, You Die, given this premise, one can conclude since we have no control over when we are born and when we die, the only thing that matters to us should be how we live, simple really?" Mis-Cat to her philosophy Lecturer.
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Definately a wild child! Wonder what else she's into?
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Ouch
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