[blue]

Strange new pastime for Florida youth baffles authorities
Reuters
Updated: 3:05 p.m. ET July 18, 2004

MIAMI - Police in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime — young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.

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The Key West Citizen newspaper reported on Sunday that the Monroe County sheriff’s office and U.S. Coast Guard were called on July 12 to the sandbar off Whale Harbor in Islamorada where locals say wild behavior 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.

Lt. Tom Brazil of the Coast Guard said a young man, who also had hooks embedded in his heavily pierced and tattooed skin, told him the group was “just enjoying the afternoon.”

There were no laws against sticking meat hooks into yourself and hanging from a tripod on a sandbar, Brazil added, according to the newspaper.

The Coast Guard passed the video on to federal justice authorities to decide if action ought to be taken.

A Coast Guard spokeswoman confirmed the report but could provide no further details. No one was available for comment at the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.

 

[chicodude]

are you trying to take N8's job?

 

[blue]

Of course not...my name is nate...hmmmm :dancing:

 

[golgiaparatus]

Ouch... meathooks? Thats really strange.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Ouch... meathooks? Thats really strange.

I think that if they had taken blood samples from the hangees and tested for illicit substances that it wouldn't have seemed quite as strange.............

-S.S.-

 

[w00dy]

That's like a flesh pulling. First let me say that I think this is really screwy, but here's what I know. People get off on the rush of getting peirced (ears, nose, blah blah), for some, this isn't good enough anymore. Some of these folks go on to try flesh pulling, which can be done one of 2 ways. The lesser way is to find a partner, both people get hooks in the shoulders and lean against each other. The other way is to get suspended by hooks. This is just a very scenic version of that.

 

[Mackie]

Strange new pastime for Florida youth baffles authorities
Reuters
Updated: 3:05 p.m. ET July 18, 2004There were no laws against sticking meat hooks into yourself and hanging from a tripod on a sandbar, Brazil added, according to the newspaper.

Boy, I remember the old days, where you needed someone else to hang you on a meat hook........whatever happened to the good old days........

 

[stosh]

people are weird

 

[manhattanprjkt83]

Boy, I remember the old days, where you needed someone else to hang you on a meat hook........whatever happened to the good old days........

pfffffffffffffft hahahhaha

WTF is up with this, is there any picture of these clowns... :mumble:

 

[Skookum]

Yah this is like the whole peircing thing taken to an extreme. If anyone knows anything about Sun Dancing it's basically a spiritual ceremony thats just like a right of passage, but kids hanging from meat hooks to catch a buzz really convinces me that the quality of television viewing must have sagged quite a bit. The levels of boredom for people to get to in order to think stuff up like this is astounding.

 

[SkaredShtles]

<snip> really convinces me that the quality of television viewing must have sagged quite a bit.

Yeah. It's TVs fault. Stupid TV :mumble:

-S.S.-

 

[Skookum]

Yeah. It's TVs fault. Stupid TV :mumble:

-S.S.-

i'm glad someone agrees with me. Well at least JDCamb isn't around there tearing down their bamboo sticks.

I KEED! I KEED!!!!

 

[BigMike]

This is nothing uncommon.

It is called suspension. and manhattanprjkt83, if you want pictures of this type of thing, check out the NOT WORK SAFE website at the bottom of this post. Click on suicide suspension or superman suspension


http://www.bmezine.com/ritual/bme-ritu.html

 

[SkaredShtles]

This is nothing uncommon.
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WHAT?!? Where the Hell do you hang out? "Nothing uncommon"?!? Jesus - if this is not uncommon, I don't know what this world is coming to........... :mumble:

-S.S.-

 

[punkassean]

click the link and check out "coma suspension" I almost hurled!

 

[BigMike]

WHAT?!? Where the Hell do you hang out? "Nothing uncommon"?!? Jesus - if this is not uncommon, I don't know what this world is coming to........... :mumble:

-S.S.-

It is an entire subculture. You know how most people dont know anything about DH? Only the people into Downhill know what it really is. Eveyone else just looks at us and thinks "wow, those guys are crazy/stupid"

That is exactly what is going on here. Body Modification is a huge subculture that has been around for thousands of years. Tattoos date back a loooong time as do piercings. Suspension is just another higher version of piercing and tattoing. This is their way of proving mind over matter. A lot of you get your rush from flying down a mountain on a mountain bike at 40+ MPH or flying down a hill at 50+ MPH on a road bike. They get thier rush from Body Modification.


I am fairly informed about this type of thing. Body Modification interests me greatly, and I have researched it and know many people that are into it. Not as big as some of the people you will find at BMEzine.com, but in it at some level. Hell, a good majority of the people on here have piercings or tattoos, and that is a form of Body Modification. They just take it to the extreme.

 

[SkaredShtles]

It is an entire subculture. You know how most people dont know anything about DH? Only the people into Downhill know what it really is. Eveyone else just looks at us and thinks "wow, those guys are crazy/stupid"<snip>

But to call it "common"......... come on.

People pissing on one another I'm sure is an "entire subculture" too, but that doesn't make it common.

DH=uncommon
Hanging from Meathooks=uncommon
Having a latte at Starbucks=common


-S.S.-

 

[manhattanprjkt83]

damnit i wanna click the link but I am at work, guess i'll do it later. fvck im soooo curious

 

[arsenic]

heh. i was just gonna post something similar to what mike did. that's a great site to learn about stuff like this. i wouldn't say it's "common" by a long shot. it's just not as unheard of, depending where your interests lie as a lot of people think.

http://www.bmezine.com allllllllll kinds of "stuff"
http://www.thelizardman.com this guy's been trandforming himself into a human lizard lol. saw an old site of his years ago when he only had a couple black tribal tats on his body.

fasinating stuff

oh yeah. i'm enjoyin the hell out of the oak barrel stout i'm drinking right now

 

[BigMike]

But to call it "common"......... come on.

People pissing on one another I'm sure is an "entire subculture" too, but that doesn't make it common.

DH=uncommon
Hanging from Meathooks=uncommon
Having a latte at Starbucks=common


-S.S.-

OK, so when I said it was not uncommon, I meant not unheard of.

I find it really interesting myself.

And I dont drink Starbucks

 

[SkaredShtles]

OK, so when I said it was not uncommon, I meant not unheard of.

I find it really interesting myself.

And I dont drink Starbucks

That's because you, mah man, are uncommon!

-S.S.-

 

[BigMike]

That's because you, mah man, are uncommon!

-S.S.-

It sure appears that way, doesnt it?

So, would anyone here want to try suspension?

 

[SkaredShtles]

It sure appears that way, doesnt it?

So, would anyone here want to try suspension?

I already have full suspension.......

-S.S.-

 

[Crash_Tested]

I think suspension was origanally an American Indian ritual. I used to see this band play and they would have these guys suspening in the middle of the stage and they would trash him about while they rocked out.

 

[Tully]

This suspension crap is
a) really creepy, and

b) absolutely sick.

(just my humble opinion)