Young in Florida Dangle from Meat Hooks, for Fun

miami(reuters) ^ | 7/18/04 | reuters

[Rakkasan1]

MIAMI (Reuters) - Law enforcement officials in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime -- young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.

[Rakkasan1]

they must be Kerry supporters....

[sine_nomine]

Gosh. Those kids today. Aren't they something!

[Veggie Todd]

Is this what they mean in Florida by a "hanging chad"?

[ScottFromSpokane]

And then, is it off for some monkeyfishing?

[zarf]

Meat hooks? Big Deal.

Try bungie jumping after midnight off the 155 ft high Natchez Trace Parkway Bridge. Let's face it, kids are nuts....or cool...depending how you feel about it.

[GSlob]

Well, the manual reads: "having suspended the patient on the hook by the rib, one is to start a small fire directly below". The kids nowadays have no attention span whatsoever and cannot follow the simplest instructions!

[Billthedrill]

It's perfectly OK - I mean, it isn't as if they were smoking or anything.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

I wonder if one could become hooked on this pastime?

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

A new meaning for the phrase "Just hanging out."

[freeangel]

Some parent will be suing the meat hook company soon because they did't have a warning etched into the side of the hooks that these were not to be used as toys.

[Normal4me]

A Coast Guard spokeswoman in Miami said the group had clearly done this before and intended to post photos of themselves on a Web site dedicated to "body modification" -- the ritualistic piercing of the body. "It looked like a daily routine for them," she said, adding that the hooks had been inserted in the skin in a professional manner and had drawn very little blood." "As long as they weren't creating any kind of ruckus or riot within a crowd they really weren't breaking any laws."

Helloooooooo.....any parents out here???

[martin_fierro]

Hey, they look like America. <|:/~

[dc-zoo]

Members of kerry's "Heart and Soul of America".

[ZOOKER]

If I lived there, I could wander by and start up a conversation:

"Catchin' anything?"

"No"

"I see the trouble --- your bait's too stinky, and it's not trying hard enough. And you might cast it out a little further, too."

[Robert357]

And here I thought it was illegal to fish for sharks using live bait. Go figure.

[Imagine]

Don't you mean: "Fart and Hole?"

[getitright]

Good god. From another article about "Kerry rising from the ashes to challenge Bush" in the same news paper:

"To help dispel the notion that he is a cerebral elitist who has trouble connecting with people, Kerry has appeared on a late-night television show riding a motorcycle, shot pheasant on an Iowa farm, graced the cover of American Windsurfer magazine in a wetsuit and used a four-letter profanity in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine."

Imagine this: "In order for Bush to dispel the notion that he has trouble connecting to black people, he has appeared at a rap concert wearing bell bottoms, ate watermelon in Detroit, drank 40s on the porch, and used ebonics in an Ebony interview.

Unfreakingbelieveable. Nope. No bias here.

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

All that body painting sure makes them look tough. I'm sure mom and dad are proud.

[mhking]

For once, I'm speechless....

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[cyborg]

just damn too ;-)

[O.C. - Old Cracker]

When you have no moral center, you'll try anything to get your way. John Kerry's just Bill Clinton without Clinton's imagination.

[mhking]

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[Shmokey]

Meat hooks Shmeethooks

[SC Swamp Fox]

Whoops -- wrong list...

Are you sure? Those may have been black conservatives that sailed out to a popular sand bar off Key West and hung themselves with meat-hooks. I saw no reference to race in the article.

maybe not.

[Rastus]

Some parent will be suing the meat hook company soon because they did't have a warning etched into the side of the hooks that these were not to be used as toys.

I can just see the lawyer now: "At 4pm, the kid said, 'This doesn't feel so bad.' At 5pm, the kid said, 'This is beginning to chafe.' At 5:30pm, the kid said, 'Help, mommy! Get me off this meathook!'"

[wagglebee]

I'm wondering if the sharks think they're bait when they swim by.

[weegee]

Those Florida kids must wish they were in Texas:

[Long Cut]

I was wondering how long it'd take before someone posted that pic.

I was toying with the idea of posting one or two from A Man Called Horse or Cannibal Ferox, but I figured I'd get banned.

[weegee]

Mine's "educational" because I included a link to a lengthy article on the film (by Joe Bob Briggs).

[Long Cut]

The ones from Ferox would have caused heart attacks.

[weegee]

"It's only a movie". I could have dug up real photos of body piercing/suspension. I have no desire to see that. The actress in "Saw" had her own suffering from her experience (although not what people think), hanging in a hot and humid Texas hill country shack (no AC) with sticky Kayro syrup dripping down her back.

[Long Cut]

That had to be uncomfortable. In Ferox, the actress was hung up on meat hooks...by her breasts. She had to perform the scene topless, with the Karo syrup, while dangling with her hands tied in a hot, humid jungle in S.A. She also had to scream her head off the whole time.

[185JHP]

Parent? I hope they don't sue Richard Harris for giving them the idea!

[weegee]

But the biggest discomfort of "Saw" was the 20+ years they spent in court trying to get paid. Considering it was a highly grossing film, there was a lot of money to take home.

The cast in the Italian production probably got paid cash and sent on their way (no further claims to profits).

[beaversmom]

Looks like the crowd that lives across from my brother. Lovely bunch. Don't all the tatoos look pretty--they'll look really nifty at age 70 and 80 if these upstanding citizens make it that long. For some reason, hepatitis, among other things, comes to mind when I look at this bunch.

[I Drive Too Fast]

I heard of hookers, but these kids must be hookees.

[usadave]

Let's face it, kids are nuts....or cool...depending how you feel about it.

Since anything can be considered cool, it's really a coin flip as to whether this activity is cool or not.

[lainde]

bttt

[50 Cal]

What, what, what, WHAT!

[RansomOttawa]

Law enforcement officials in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime -- young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.

Well . . . that's close to Miami-Dade-Palm Beach.

[HookedMonkey]

Hey men,
America is ill.
We are destroying the world and ourselves.
Everybody hate us on the world.
Terrorists blow us and everybody who support us!
We have to turn 180 degrees our route, fast!

[Admin Moderator]

Preserved for posterity.

[Darksheare]

Mamma-san "Hey GI! Five dolla, love yo LOONG time!"
You mean she's a terrorist!?

[CedarDave]

Reuters story long gone, copy here:

http://www.infowars.com/print/misc/meathooks.htm

Pictures here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387412/posts?page=106#106