Just hanging around

Now this is just bizarre and not for the squeamish.

According to news reports from Miami, police in Florida Keys have stumbled upon a weird new hobby. The young people of the town, instead of hanging in the mall, have been hanging from meat hooks.

The US Coast Guard was called on July 12 to check out the sandbar off Whale Harbour in Islamorada where they discovered five youths had built a bamboo tripod, complete with meat hooks. And worst of all they was dangling from the hooks that were embedded in their shoulders. This wasn’t an attack. They had done it themselves.

One tattoo-covered chap even told the Coast Guard that he was just enjoying the afternoon as he swayed from his hook.

It turns out that this is a regular past-time for them and they had planned to upload photos of themselves on a ‘body modification’ website.

Madness. Why can’t they vandalise phone-boxes or gather en-masse outside the co-op like other kids? What’s the world coming to?