MIAMI - Police in the Florida Keys are mystified by a bizarre new pastime — young people dangling themselves from meat hooks on a popular sandbar.
U.S. Coast Guard were called on July 12 to the sandbar off Whale Harbor in Islamorada. They found that five young people had erected a bamboo tripod and hung meat hooks from it. A young woman, her feet brushing the surface of the shallow water, dangled from the frame, hooks embedded firmly in her shoulders.
Lt. Tom Brazil of the Coast Guard said a young man, who also had hooks embedded in his heavily pierced and tattooed skin, told him the group was “just enjoying the afternoon.”
There were no laws against sticking meat hooks into yourself and hanging from a tripod on a sandbar (really? you'd think that someone would have done something about this by now), Brazil added, according to the newspaper.
What I'd like to know is, what kind of drugs one takes in order for meat hooks embedded in your shoulder to allow you to just chill.
And what kind of drugs you have to take in order to think up an idea like this, and talk people into building a tripod and hanging meat hooks from it. I mean, I knew some wacky people in college that would do anything to get high (snorting someone's asthma pills comes to mind) but this - I can't imagine what triggered this.
meat hooks in the night 
