In Russia Protest Nails You!

[GDS_Starfury]

this takes some balls.

Red Square has seen a lot over the centuries, from public executions to giant military parades, but a performance artist broke new ground on Sunday when he nailed his scrotum to cobblestones in a painful act of protest.Pyotr Pavlensky said the protest was his response to Russia's descent into a "police state" and was timed to coincide with Police Day, which Russia's law enforcement officials celebrated on Sunday.

"The performance can be seen as a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference and fatalism of contemporary Russian society," Pavlensky said in a statement. "As the government turns the country into one big prison, stealing from the people and using the money to grow and enrich the police apparatus and other repressive structures, society is allowing this, and forgetting its numerical advantage, is bringing the triumph of the police state closer by its inaction."

[LongBlade]

Any punishment they come up with is likely to be a relief in comparison.

[Staggerwing]

One wonders how careful the cops were when they removed him from his spot.

[BanzaiCat]

I wonder if his job sacked him.

[Staggerwing]

If not he probably bagged himself a nice reprimand. Still, it takes a lot of balls to confront the Russian Gov't.

[BanzaiCat]

It took some stones to nail his rocks to the rocks.

[W8taminute]

He busted his balls trying to make his point but apparently no one would listen.

[GDS_Starfury]

oh Im pretty sure he nailed his point down.

[LongBlade]

It's shocking only because so few people let it all hang out there anymore.

[GDS_Starfury]

do you know how hard it is to actually fix a masonry nail into cobblestone?
its a real ball buster as they arent the sharpest things in construction.

[BanzaiCat]

Don't testes him; he'd totally do it again.

[GDS_Starfury]

One wonders how careful the cops were when they removed him from his spot.

Im sure youve seen Russian Internal Security remove protesters before.
Id be surprised if they bothered to take the nail out first.

[GDS_Starfury]

now wheres Bawb? Im sure he could hammer this topic.

[LongBlade]

now wheres Bawb? Im sure he could hammer this topic.

I'm sure he's nailing down a problem somewhere.

[W8taminute]

Don't you think it's time to put the hammer down and make Bawb post comments here?