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Volume:1 Issue: 5 June 2003


Decapitation is latest 'body modification' trend

Parents around the world were horrified to learn that the latest trend in body modification as uncovered in a survey by ultra-hip teen mag Avan-t-een involves the severing of heads from bodies. The coolest teens apparently no longer consider pierced scrotums, tatooed faces or forked tongues to be enough, so they have turned to a more permanent and irreversible form of body modification.


The trend is rumoured to have been started in Los Angeles by a 'body-mod surgeon' and surf legend, Wolfgang 'Crash-Bang' Hernandez, who had already done all the 'ordinary bod-mod stuff and was bored with it' according to a friend, when he decapitated himself as he slept. He is said to have spent months building an electronically-controlled alarm-activated guilloutine in his bedroom, the design for which he then posted on the Net, before testing it for the first and last time as his webcam ran.


Since then over 10,000 teens around the world have followed his trend-setting example by lopping off their own heads with various improvised devices, but some have been dismissed as mere 'copy-cats' by their former friends. School authorities have been broadcasting and re-broadcasting the images of the headless victims in an effort to discourage other students from attempting the feat. They did not want to alarm young people, but warned that death could be one possible side-effect.


One outraged mother said: 'It's perfectly understandable that a young girl may want to have her clitoris pierced or a young man may want to insert metal bumps under the skin in his forehead, but surely removing an entire region of the body can't be healthy for anyone.'


One teenager we asked about the trend said she knew all about it, had tried it and thought it was 'cool'.

   
   

By Max Ooberman

"School authorities have been broadcasting and re-broadcasting the images of the headless victims in an effort to discourage other students from attempting the feat."

 

 

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