(Source: The AP, Ananova™)
St. Petersburg, FL (is this Hollywood?) - A band, named Hell on Earth, based across the bay from me in Tampa is planning an on stage suicide at an event here in St. Petersburg on October 4. The person they claim is going to commit the suicide is terminally ill and a member of some right-to-die organization.
I wasn't going to post anything about this story because I figured it was all a hoax and I would wait for the other shoe to drop before entering into the field with all the other news media lapping it up. Well, the shoe dropped. I've heard from someone with a reliable connection to the band members that it's just a publicity stunt. The group aspires to the likes of Marilyn Manson. Past stunts, as The AP reports, have been grinding up rats in blenders and chocolate-syrup wrestling.
The bigger the shock the bigger the press time.
It's all rather sick. Maybe Arafat got his idea from this band.
