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'.