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Whatever You Do, Don't Read This... (lifted off the floor by giant fishhooks)
Yahoo News ^
| 04/05/2005
| Ellen Wulfhorst
Posted on 04/05/2005 6:49:02 AM PDT by bedolido
Rosemary Curtis (R) holds the hand of her boyfriend Michael Belardo as he hangs in the 'Superman' pose during a Suspension Convention in Providence, Rhode Island, April 2, 2005. From tentative first-timers to well-practiced masters, more than 100 aficionados celebrated their passion for body suspension at the three-day gathering, held in an old textile mill.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: do; dont; fishhooks; floor; giant; hippietrash; humandebris; losers; read; shoulders; stretchmarks; this; whatever; you
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To: martin_fierro
LOL!
That's actually pretty cool.
Had to look a second time at it.
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:02:15 AM PDT
by
tiamat
(Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
To: bedolido
22
posted on
04/05/2005 7:02:25 AM PDT
by
swordfish71
(There is no storm like the PERFECT ROVIAN STORM!)
To: martin_fierro
23
posted on
04/05/2005 7:02:26 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Standing athwart FR, yelling 'Stop!')
To: cyborg; fortunecookie
Whatever you do, DON'T LOOK.
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:03:06 AM PDT
by
Petronski
(I thank God Almighty for a most remarkable blessing: John Paul the Great.)
To: bedolido
Here's another freak.
25
posted on
04/05/2005 7:04:54 AM PDT
by
SuperSonic
(GOD Bless America!)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
That's what you call someone who has far, far too much time on his (and her) hands...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:05:19 AM PDT
by
mhking
(If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball!)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
That's what you call someone who has far, far too much time on his (and her) hands...
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
27
posted on
04/05/2005 7:06:02 AM PDT
by
mhking
(I have my towel. Do you have yours?)
To: FBD
And they say women with breast implants will start to sag with age, huh.
Everything being equal this brain stem's in for one hellova surprise.
ASBS.
...Acute Saggy Backside Syndrom.
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:06:57 AM PDT
by
Landru
(Indulgences: 2 for a buck.)
To: Lijahsbubbe
"Where's the 'I'm an idiot' tattoo?"
It appears to be all over both of them . . . especially the guy hanging from the hooks.
To: swordfish71
They should be EUthanized and put in a jar with alcohol.
Next!
To: Fierce Allegiance
For a moment that looked like one of my old roommates...
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:10:46 AM PDT
by
null and void
(innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
To: reagan_fanatic
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:11:12 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: bedolido
To: null and void
For a moment that looked like one of my old roommates... The bait on the hook or the skank standing with him?
To: Fierce Allegiance
The skank. It's a VERY long story.
(The bait looks like any one of her boyfriends)...
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:15:37 AM PDT
by
null and void
(innocent, incapacitated, inconvenient, and insured - a lethal combination for Terri...)
To: bedolido
...snip... For such an off-beat practice, the convention is remarkably well-run, with sanitary precautions, surgical tools and almost military efficiency in preparing people for their suspension.
Some hang for a few minutes, others for an hour or more.
The biggest danger is cross-contamination, organizers said, due to so much open flesh and blood. Other dangers involve people passing out or suffering seizures, they said.
"The first couple of times, I didn't enjoy it," said Canadian Warren Hiller. "The first time I blacked out, and one time I was convulsing. But the third time I got better. I wasn't blacking out anymore."
It's not masochism, said Allen Falkner of Dallas, who has practiced suspension for 13 years. "Suspension is not about pain, it's about getting past the pain."
Advocates say suspension has been practiced since ancient times in many societies.
"It's searching for answers, trying new things," Hiller said. "You can only get pierced and tattooed so many times."
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:16:18 AM PDT
by
SuperSonic
(GOD Bless America!)
To: bedolido
There was actually a Guinness Book of World Records show on FOX where one of the people actually broke the record for this event. (there's record for putting the most number of fishhook though your body ???!)
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:18:13 AM PDT
by
Ex-Dem
(40 F in March? Where's global warming when you need it...)
To: bedolido
Oh dear,
Ouch,
Oh my.
Whatever,
he's an idjit.
38
posted on
04/05/2005 7:18:31 AM PDT
by
najida
(I wish I had Tina Turner's legs, Ann Coulter's brains and Paris Hilton's credit cards.)
To: Fierce Allegiance; All
I pray to god that they don't breed.
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posted on
04/05/2005 7:19:54 AM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: Lijahsbubbe
(bubble above girl's head) "And I thought my last boyfriend was weird for collecting ceramic squirrels."
40
posted on
04/05/2005 7:20:07 AM PDT
by
Sender
(Team Infidel USA)
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