A shark protester hung from boutique ceiling with fish hooks
Alice Newstead took protesting to the next level when she pierced her skin with oversized fish hooks and hung from the ceiling of a Paris boutique in a campaign over shark extinction
3 July 2009
IF you are slightly squeamish then look away now – this wacky protest is not for you.
An artist, narked off with the threat of extinction facing the world’s sharks, took matters into her own hands on Thursday, and there was nothing hooky about this stunt.
Alice Newstead, from Watford, used the backdrop of Paris for her fishy protest, painting her body in silver to resemble a shark, before being hoisted into the air with oversized fishing hooks.
The painful stunt went on for 15 minutes, as shoppers came to have a gander at the weird protest in the window of cosmetics store Lush – that’s one way to attract customers to your shop.
According to the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) some 100 million sharks are caught in commercial and sports fishing every year, and several species have declined by more than 80 per cent in the past decade alone.
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