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Kids dangle from meat hooks for fun

  Author:  52155  Category:(Discussion) Created:(7/23/2004 1:25:00 PM)
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Kids dangle from meat hooks for fun Sun Jul 18, 3:12 PM ET

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.

A U.S. Coast Guard spokeswoman said on Sunday that the Monroe County sheriff's office and Coast Guard were called on July 12 to the sandbar off Whale Harbour in Islamorada where locals say wild behaviour is becoming a tradition.

They found that five young people had erected a bamboo tripod and hung meat hooks from it. A young woman, her feet brushing the surface of the shallow water, dangled from the frame, hooks embedded firmly in her shoulders.

According to a Coast Guard video, she did not seem to mind the hooks.

Lieutenant Tom Brazil of the Coast Guard told the Key West Citizen newspaper that a young man, who also had hooks embedded in his heavily pierced and tattooed skin, assured him the group was "just enjoying the afternoon."

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."

The Coast Guard passed the video on to federal justice authorities but no further action will be taken.

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Date: 7/23/2004 1:28:00 PM  From Authorid: 10722    They have brain damage, or a mental disorder..no doubt. :-)  
Date: 7/23/2004 1:37:00 PM  From Authorid: 24732    Maybe masochism starts at a young age.  
Date: 7/23/2004 2:12:00 PM  From Authorid: 47218    I saw a similar thing on a show about Indian mysticism (as in asian India)-- apparently in India they have these mystics, or charlatan, more like it, who go from village to village dazzling people with their ability to dangle from hooks inserted through their skin, and then getting money from them. So, to spoil the illusion, a group of people who were clearly not mystics went around the country demonstrating to people that when the hooks were inserted in the right place in the skin, that they, as well any person, could also dangle from them without discomfort or pain. I assume that's what these kids were doing. As to why-- well, maybe to be edgy, or to freak people out, or because they just enjoy inserting things through their skin.  
Date: 7/23/2004 2:18:00 PM  From Authorid: 43015    omg!! how could they do that?! 0_0 i couldnt stand it!  
Date: 7/23/2004 2:42:00 PM  From Authorid: 49536    They probably just did it for fun. I'm a kid my self but I could never do something like that. That would be really creepy to see them like that. **GuitarPic**  
Date: 7/23/2004 2:59:00 PM  From Authorid: 7574    I think it kind of looks like fun, but I probably wouldn't do it. It would be quite an interesting feel though, very refreshing.  
Date: 7/23/2004 3:03:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 52155    Fun? Sticking meat hooks through your backs to just hang there sounds like fun? Sorry, not to me it doesn't.
  
Date: 7/23/2004 5:28:00 PM  From Authorid: 19772    Some people are very strange. Doesn't sound like fun to me either. ~Gabrielle~  
Date: 7/23/2004 6:00:00 PM  From Authorid: 62146    ummmmm...........count me out :/  
Date: 7/23/2004 7:26:00 PM  From Authorid: 53558    I have read this before. There is somthing not right in their heads...(",)...  
Date: 7/23/2004 7:54:00 PM  From Authorid: 24319    When I went with my friend to her her tattoo, they had an article about people who hung from hooks. It was about 2 years ago, so I can't remember all of it. But, there is suppose to be one heck of a feeling (in a good way) when you do this. I don't look at it as being weird in anyway, I personally wouldn't want to do it. Oh, and it was adults who were doing this in the article, not kids.  
Date: 7/24/2004 12:41:00 AM  From Authorid: 26452    Its not just kids, people of all ages are doing them, its the same thing as suspension, I think most people do it for the adrenalin(sp) rush.  
Date: 7/24/2004 11:14:00 AM  From Authorid: 62085    Plains Indians hooked theirselves with Eagle claws and dangled, it was a ritual, but there was pain. It's all about the spirit overcoming the flesh. The satanic version that is..  
Date: 11/15/2004 10:22:00 AM  From Authorid: 18928    ewwwwww!  
Date: 12/20/2004 3:34:00 PM  From Authorid: 63015    I wouldnt be able to even watch people do that eww grossness -VampyreBlood-  
Date: 7/3/2006 3:06:00 PM  From Authorid: 63644    ewww who would do that?!  

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