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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