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Rock band planning to hold an onstage suicide
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| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
| quote: | New Law Passed to Block Concert Suicide
Sep 29, 12:07 PM EST
The St. Petersburg city council passed a law Monday designed to scuttle a rock group's plans to feature an onstage suicide.
The hard-rock band Hell on Earth had said that a suicide by a terminally ill person would take place during a concert Saturday to raise awareness of right-to-die issues.
In response, the city council met Monday morning to unanimously approve an emergency ordinance making it illegal to conduct a suicide for commercial or entertainment purposes, and to host, promote and sell tickets for such an event.
"While I still think it's a publicity stunt, we still couldn't sit idly by and let somebody lose their life," council member Bill Foster said.
Tampa-based Hell of Earth, known for such outrageous onstage stunts as chocolate syrup wrestling and grinding up live rats in a blender, created the furor by announcing the suicide would happen Saturday at the Palace Theater in downtown St. Petersburg.
But the theater's owner, David Hundley, promptly canceled the band's show, and another venue also turned away the event.
Band leader Billy Tourtelot has vowed that the concert and suicide will still take place at an undisclosed location in the city, broadcast live on the band's Web site.
"This show is far more than a typical Hell On Earth performance," Tourtelot said in an e-mail last week. "This is about standing up for what you believe in, and I am a strong supporter of physician-assisted suicide."
A message left for Tourtelot was not immediately returned Monday.
A Florida law already makes assisting in a suicide manslaughter, a second-degree felony.
Hell on Earth is playing clubs in support of its independently produced album, "All Things Disturbingly Sassy." |
That is quite disturbing. :nervous: |
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| Trancention |
| Hmmm...some very wierd viewed people...to say the least. |
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| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Trancention
Hmmm...some very wierd viewed people...to say the least. |
They're quite stupid as I'm sure now the will be tried for manslaughter and will probably lose their case. That is if the plan is carried through with... |
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| Trancention |
| It is sad to see ways that society is branching out to... |
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| DJ-Fuq |
| They put live rats in a blender? Theyre ing evil. They deserve to be shot 50 times in the hands, arms, feet, legs, dick, balls etc and left to bleed to death. |
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| TeKnoHe@d2025 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ-Fuq
They put live rats in a blender? |
Yeah, but if you think of it...that's not half as bad as what some of those lab mice are subjected to though. |
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| Photo_bot_2k1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ-Fuq
They put live rats in a blender? Theyre ing evil. They deserve to be shot 50 times in the hands, arms, feet, legs, dick, balls etc and left to bleed to death. |
i think thats the exact reaction a band named "hell on earth" wants to get |
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| DJ-Fuq |
| quote: | Originally posted by Photo_bot_2k1
i think thats the exact reaction a band named "hell on earth" wants to get |
Not if somebody cared enough to actually do it. I would shoot them for doing that. |
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| DJ-Fuq |
| quote: | Originally posted by TeKnoHe@d2025
Yeah, but if you think of it...that's not half as bad as what some of those lab mice are subjected to though. |
I dont agree with that either, but scientists arent torturing/mutilating innocent animals for fun, or to try to look hard or something like those wankers are.
That sort of thing is as sick and ed up as paedophilia/necrophilia etc |
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| Omegasox |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ-Fuq
They put live rats in a blender? |
And once again I have to ask myself...wtf is wrong with people? :( |
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| UglyDave |
| i do not understand the whole rock scene, but all that 's sick. who the gets entertainment from watchin rats get chopped up in a blender? if they could get the rats to ride wee mini bicycles :) that'd be quality entertainment for all the family :) |
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