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Nashville, Tenn. -- Hoping to prompt Nashville�s lunch crowd into realizing that whether fish, foul, or human, a corpse is a corpse, a naked, "charred" PETA member will slather herself with barbecue sauce while another PETA member "cooks" her on a charcoal grill downtown tomorrow.

Date: Wednesday, January 31
Time: 12 noon
Place: Intersection of Fourth Avenue N. and Church Street, Nashville

PETA�s point? All animals are made of flesh, bone, and blood, just as humans are, and eating meat entails eating the corpse of an animal who was an individual with feelings, a family, and a distinct personality. In addition to the "human barbecue," PETA members will hold signs that read, "Meat Is Murder," and hand out vegetarian starter kits to curious passersby.


"People are understandably revolted by the idea of eating a human corpse, which is exactly why they should also lose their appetites at the thought of eating any animal�s corpse�to smell them cooking, you can�t tell the difference," says PETA campaign coordinator Mike Brazell.

Durban - A drunken man was arrested by police in Port Shepstone after he was caught lying on top of a dead 50-year-old man with his pants down, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Monday.

Superintendent Zandra Hechter said police received a call at 06:00 on Saturday about a strange incident on Port Shepstone's Ryder Street.

When police arrived on scene they initially thought they were dealing with a strange double murder.

However when paramedics were called to the scene to declare the two men dead, they discovered that the top body was in fact alive, albeit severely inebriated.

The man, who had his pants down, was arrested and is expected to appear in court soon on charges of indecent assault.

An inquest docket has been opened to determine the cause of death of the other man.

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NASHUA, N.H. --A 1959 Cadillac known locally as the "Death Car" was a big draw at an auto auction this month.

The car, which experts say is the lowest-mileage '59 Cadillac in the world, sold for $165,000 at last week's Barrett-Jackson Auction Co.'s car auction in Scottsdale, Ariz.

British singer Pete Burns has sued a London plastic surgeon, claiming a lip augmentation procedure left him looking "physically repulsive."

In his claim alleging negligence by Mauizio Viel, the Dead or Alive vocalist said side effects from the augmentation treatment included swelling, blisters, a heavy discharge and the inability to eat, drink or talk, Sky News said Thursday. The suit was filed in London.

Chinese police have arrested three men for killing two young women to sell their corpses as "ghost brides" for dead single men, a Chinese newspaper reported, warning the dark custom might have claimed many other victims.

Jews are attempting to commit genocide against ethnic Russians, a Russian lawmaker claims in a recent article.

This past Sunday one of the unassuming ladies from local blog A Brooklyn Life took them up on their free class offer and experienced "some intense and almost violent stretching exercises" and "a series of poses that become progressively more awkward." It wasn't an entirely negative experience, but she didn't plan on going back. But in the post's comments, one reader suggested Googling "Dahn Yoga" "cult" and the search results are pretty spooky...

Nine years after he began serving a life sentence for the Unabomber crimes, Theodore J. Kaczynski is fighting to reclaim more than 40,000 pages of his writings and correspondence so he can preserve them in their rawest form for the public to read.

Mr. Kaczynski, 64, is in a legal battle with the federal government and a group of his victims over the future of the handwritten papers, which include journals, diaries and drafts of his anti-technology manifesto.

Accused serial killer Robert William Pickton allegedly confessed to killing 49 women and intended to kill one more to make it an even 50, prosecutors in his murder trial said.

Pickton, 56, has been charged with 26 counts of first- degree murder, accused of killing mostly prostitutes and drug addicts who vanished from a poor Vancouver neighborhood in the 1990s.

A group of paranormal investigators think the legends of Teackle Mansion ghosts could be true, particularly in a part of the house where their equipment batteries died and they felt a cold spot.

"There's enough evidence to be suspicious," Christine Power, co-director of Eastern Shore Paranormal, said at a recent meeting of the Somerset County Historical Society.

BRITAIN'S most dangerous prisoners are being recruited by movie star Tom Cruise's bizarre Scientology cult.

Jose Luis De Jesús Miranda, a 60-year-old Puerto Rican ex-convict and former heroin addict, has followers in over 20 countries, including the United States. The question isn't why he's doing it -- as De Jesús said in an NBC interview, "Everyone should be rich," -- the question is why are people actually listening to him? The man is leading a cult, one that preys on the most universal and important of beliefs to human beings: religion. It is brainwashing at its most fundamental, but, disguised as religion, his movement is unstoppable.

Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) nature protection branch acting manager Paul Connolly said today his department had received a new report of at least 200 dead swallows in Narembeen, about 240km east of Perth and 380km from Esperance.

He said the swallows apparently died earlier this month during large storms that passed through the wheatbelt region.

Dead bodies have been vanishing in games for decades because of technical difficulties. Old 2-D games — like just about anything on the original Atari, Sega and Nintendo systems — could only display a limited number of character graphics, or sprites, on a TV screen at one time. Letting a zapped enemy lie prone on the playing field caused problems, limiting the amount of new things, like new on-rushing enemies, that could be drawn onto the screen. "You would end up sacrificing one of your precious moving objects to display an essentially useless dead body."

An artist offered guests meatballs cooked in his own body fat when he hosted a dinner party recently.

Marco Evaristti shocked his friends when he explained that he had used fat extracted from a recent liposuction procedure to cook their meal.

In a precedent-setting move, the Ramat Gan Family Court on Sunday approved the request of a family to allow the sperm of their slain son to be used for insemination.

There was a time when Renaldo Ramirez, of Houston, didn't like to cook.

An art teacher who moonlighted as a 'butt-printing artist' has been fired from his school.

Stephen Murmer had initially been suspended from work after a YouTube video of him appearing – in disguise – on a TV show, demonstrating how he used his buttocks for painting, was circulated amongst pupils at the school.

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A woman who competed in a radio station's contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner's office said Saturday.

Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

Being dead is no longer an excuse for not staying in touch.

t took Angel Nieves Diaz 34 minutes to die from the time the two executioners inserted the IV tubes into each arm and began pumping the chemicals into his body. His eyes widened. His head rolled. He appeared to speak. "It was my observation that he was in pain," Neal Dupree, a lawyer for Diaz and a witness to the execution, wrote in an affidavit. The faint signs of movement from the body strapped to the trolley continued for 24 minutes. "His face was contorted, and he grimaced on several occasions. His Adam's apple bobbed up and down continually, and his jaw was clenched."

Rampant inbreeding has given Japanese dogs some of the highest rates of genetic defects in the world, sometimes four times higher than in the United States and Europe.

I projected photographs of mutilated and dead Iraqis on American houses, supermarkets, churches, and parking lots. I was thinking of this new generation of kids who will be traumatized for life by growing up during wartime. It was a desperate gesture: my personal protest for the lack of interest for the non-american victims.

TOKYO, Jan 1 (Reuters Life!) - A troupe of dancers in skin-colored body suits had Japanese national broadcaster NHK apologizing to viewers for what seemed to be a full-scale Janet Jackson-style wardrobe malfunction during its New Year's Eve music special.