I nail my balls to the street in protest!

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Man Nails Testicles To Red Square Cobblestones

Agence France Presse | By Posted: 11/10/2013 2:18 pm EST | Updated: 11/11/2013 1:10 pm EST


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A Russian performance artist was hospitalised Sunday after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights.


A video of the graphic action, available on Russian websites, showed artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum being covered with a blanket by police officers while horrified passersby looked on.


The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Pavlensky was taken to a police station after being treated in a central Moscow clinic.

The Saint Petersburg-based artist said in a statement posted on the Grani.ru website that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society's inaction in the face of the development of a


"police state".




Russia marked its annual Police Day holiday on Sunday.

It is not the first time the 29-year-old has resorted to eye-watering methods of protest.

He has previously sewn his lips together to demonstrate against the jailing of two female members of the Pussy Riot punk band who staged an anti-Kremlin performance inside Moscow's main cathedral in 2011.

He was also arrested after wrapping his naked body in barbed wire outside a Saint Petersburg government building in May.

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[Petar]

I'm just sad/angry that no one bothered to put a sticker on nails/hammers to warn people that could happen if you use one. The road too I guess.

 

[Working Poor]

I'm just sad/angry that no one bothered to put a sticker on nails/hammers to warn people that could happen if you use one.

Me too

 

[presence]

GRAPHIC/NUDITY "Nail"

 

[Henry Rogue]

That's one protest I won't partake in.

 

[FindLiberty]

Ahm, the "money shot" shows just a little pinch of scrotum "nailed to the road" (~16d sinker or longer?). Can't say if it's a cemented nail or not.

It could even be a fake prop nail with a hidden clip or magnets used to create the illusion of penetration. The nail's point is out of sight, in between brick joints, possibly pressed in my hand or not in contact with anything at all. I suspect this stunt was prepared ahead of time and no "hammer" was required or even present. No testicles were harmed in making that protest statement unless kicked later during arrest procedures, or damaged by infection.

 

[Natural Citizen]

Ahm, the "money shot" shows just a little pinch of scrotum "nailed to the road" (~16d sinker or longer?). Can't say if it's a cemented nail or not.

It could even be a fake prop nail with a hidden clip or magnets used to create the illusion of penetration. The nail's point is out of sight, in between brick joints, possibly pressed in my hand or not in contact with anything at all. I suspect this stunt was prepared ahead of time and no "hammer" was required or even present. No testicles were harmed in making that protest statement unless kicked later during arrest procedures, or damaged by infection.

Yeah, I think just an exhibitionist. Lil feller too. Not that I was looking or anything. It was just right there and all...

 

[FindLiberty]

[parent speaking to fidgeting child] "For the third time, sit back down in your seat young man! You don't want to make me have to remind you again..."

 

[MRK]

I'm just sad/angry that no one bothered to put a sticker on nails/hammers to warn people that could happen if you use one. The road too I guess.

muh roads

no sticker muh roads

 

[mrsat_98]

I think he should have nailed Obama balls the the asphalt. That is if he has any.

 

[S.Shorland]

'Hmmm... Hammer or Sickle?...Hammer or Sickle?...'