Russian Man Nails Own Testicles to the Ground in Protest of Police State

[redhawk23]

Self-styled performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky received treatment at a clinic before being taken to a police station following the incident, which he said was a protest against Russia’s ‘police state’.

He shocked visitors in Moscow’s Red Square by hammering a nail through his scrotum into cobblestones outside Lenin’s Mausoleum, on the day Russia marked its Police Day national holiday.

At least one person filmed Mr Pavlensky during the protest before police put a blanket on him and removed him from the floor.

In a statement posted on the grani.ru website prior to the demonstration, Mr Pavlensky had written: ‘A naked artist, looking at his balls nailed to the Kremlin pavement, is a metaphor for the apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of contemporary Russian society.’

The artist has put his body on the line for previous high-profile protests.

After two members of the ***** Riot punk protest band were jailed for singing inside Moscow’s main cathedral in 2011 he sewed his lips together, and he also wrapped his naked body in barbed wire outside a government building in St Petersburg.

Blurred picture at the link.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/11/10/artis...round-in-front-of-horrified-tourists-4181107/

 

[Dark Raven]

I'm surprised it wasn't the man who cut off his own penis who did this. That would've been the final nail in the coffin.

 

[Octoberist]

That took…BALLZ…waka waka waka

 

[Quasimod0]

Holy cow. Ouch.

 

[Schlosser85]

That takes dedication. Or insanity.

 

[MrMaooz]

 

[Hotwire]

Pretty ballsy thing to do.

 

[enterthemadness]

That takes dedication. Or insanity.

Or maybe he just had the baaaaaaaaaaalls to go there. get it.... balls.

 

[MrMaooz]

ITT: Balls puns.

 

[jmc]

Warning: Pun overload approaching

 

[DarkSovereignty]

...

..
.

Spoiler

balls

 

[Dark Raven]

That takes dedication. Or insanity.

Clearly nuts.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

He really nailed that performance.

 

[SpideyFan866]

It takes real scrot to do something like that.........

......... And being a little nutty.

 

[Sawyer]

He must have.... something.... genitals.





I don't know, I need more time to think of something clever.

 

[DarkSentinel]

Now stop.


Hammer time

 

[Dark Raven]

Balls to the walls action.

Or balls to the ground in this case.

 

[Teelie]

He nailed it.

 

[AnneFan]

This is not testi-cool.

 

[KevanG]

And people say artists don't suffer for their work.

 

[Mike_D202]

shocked visitors in Moscow’s Red Square by hammering a nail through his scrotum into cobblestones outside Lenin’s Mausoleum, on the day Russia marked its Police Day national holiday.

...was this you, DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs ???

 

[RetrogradeOrbit]

I don't think I have the balls to make a witty comment... They've all been used by better people than I!

 

[Mike_D202]

In other news: a similar protest in Northern Russia occured earlier today where a woman stuck her vagina on a metal pole in protest. She was quickly peeled away from the situation.

 

[Dark Raven]

In other news: a similar protest in Northern Russia occured earlier today where a woman stuck her vagina on a metal pole in protest. She was quickly peeled away from the situation.

She wanted to be in pole position in this protest race.

 

[NickNitro]

leave it to the hype to post something ridiculous to make me cringe on a Monday morning