Well my friends, yesterday in lovely downtown Spokane, Washington, People for The Ethical Treatment of Animals decided to protest a local Sushi restaurant. They splayed themselves out on the cold spit and gum covered sidewalk in front of Sushi.com. Which has good sushi I might add. PETA in their usual protest style of “Look at us we’re crazy”, two males and a female, painted themselves the color of algae put on fake flippers and laid stretched out on a net in front of the establishment. But here is the kicker this time your humble narrator was there to enjoy the crazy.
I was told by a good friend that this was going to go down so I looked up the news report for the upcoming protest and being as I was in the area I couldn’t resist a look-see. In that article I was promised topless people dressed like fish. Who can pass up the opportunity to see half naked people dressed like fish? I sure can’t. I have seen them do this before at some of their other what I have dubbed “Tits for Tuna” protests. But alas while the two guys followed through and were topless the one female of the group put star shaped stickers over her nipples before painting herself to look like algae with flippers and while laying there she laid one arm over herself to further cover them up. I am thinking about suing PETA for false advertising. I was promised a crazy PETA peep show.
I must say that their protest was a little lack luster compared to some of their other “pornography for animal rights” stunts. Maybe the actual pornography web site they are going to launch to promote a Vegan lifestyle will be more revealing. But their protest was a success. They had, I would guesstimate around 50 people gawk at and mock them for the better part of the hour they were laying there. I would also like to mention that one of Spokane”s local newspaper columnists, Doug Clark from the Spokesman Review, was kind enough to bring lunch for us stating at the beginning of the protest “get a free Filet o’ fish. Because you can’t enjoy the protest on an empty stomach.” Thank you Mr. Clark. Another sign of their success was the news outlets and blogs that are mocking them today. I would say they successfully proved once again that PETA is nothing more than a bunch of enviro-wackos that do little more than put on a mediocre show on par with most other street performances. I was surprised though that the local looney bin did not make a showing to drive them back home.
