Reply With QuoteThey're doing it so ALF will attack them with baseball bats and pipe bombs
Animal Rights Group Gives Fur Coats to Homeless
Updated: Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2005 - 4:42 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - They've spent years burning fur coats and tossing paint at people wearing them. But Wednesday, an animal rights group tried something completely different - handing out dozens of furs to homeless people at a city shelter.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, the Norfolk, Va., animal rights group, argued that the donated furs should provide warmth - rather than vanity - for the owners.
"We can't bring the lives of these animals back," said PETA spokesman William Rivas-Rivas. "We have to be pragmatic."
"This is really cool," said Tuesday Brown, 42, who lives in the shelter about half a mile from the U.S. Capitol. She chose a long brown fur after trying on about five different coats.
"I like long coats, and it's beautiful," said Brown, who has lived at the Center for Creative Nonviolence for 18 months. She said she has never owned a fur but called it an "esteem booster."
PETA has given away furs in Detroit, New York, Seattle and even Afghanistan. But the coats have very little value on the street because the mink, sable and others were deliberately devalued by either stains or cuts.
Shelter resident Phyllis Brown, 53, said she doesn't plan to sell her long black coat, and doubts many other residents will try to either.
"We are grateful to have them," Brown said.
In a time when the hottest brands and clothing may be ripe for theft on the streets, Rivas-Rivas said the furs shouldn't put the homeless at risk.
"Fur coats are so devalued these days anyway," he said. "Someone can go and buy one at a thrift store for $15."
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=415079
Of course, only time will tell whether their next act will be another sensible idea or something that's to be expected from the PETA we all know and love.
They're doing it so ALF will attack them with baseball bats and pipe bombs
WTF? WHO ARE THEY AND WTF HAVE THEY DONE WITH PETA?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!
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Originally posted by Japher
They're doing it so ALF will attack them with baseball bats and pipe bombs
What's ALF? Do you mean ATF?
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PETA
I love being beaten by women - Lorizael
What, so the "we're crazy people who do crazy stuff in a crazy manner so people will think we're crazy" strategy didn't work?
KEEP GOING ON THE OLD STRATEGY, PETA, IT'LL WORK ONE DAY
"Spirit merges with matter to sanctify the universe. Matter transcends to return to spirit. The interchangeability of matter and spirit means the starlit magic of the outermost life of our universe becomes the soul-light magic of the innermost life of our self." - Dennis Kucinich, candidate for the U. S. presidency
"That’s the future of the Democratic Party: providing Republicans with a number of cute (but not that bright) comfort women." - Adam Yoshida, Canada's gift to the world
ALF: Animal Liberation Front
they're the ones who take credit for blowing up SUVs and Animal Research facilities.. PETA on PCP
He always tried to eat the cat
Japher, wasn´t the ones blowing up SUV dealerships part of some eco-anarchist guerilla thingy? Like Earth First or whatnot?
I love being beaten by women - Lorizael
Where did PETA get the fur coats from?
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok
Ripped the from the backs of rich ****s?
I love being beaten by women - Lorizael
I'm sure there's others, ALF/ELF is reponsible for a lot of bad stuff though. This I know.Japher, wasn´t the ones blowing up SUV dealerships part of some eco-anarchist guerilla thingy? Like Earth First or whatnot?
Right, there´s a lot of misguided people out there
I love being beaten by women - Lorizael
They aren't responsible for beating people up with bats and pipe bombs.Originally posted by Japher
I'm sure there's others, ALF/ELF is reponsible for a lot of bad stuff though. This I know.
Rethink Refuse Reduce Reuse
Do It Ourselves
No, they just perform property damage type things. You are right.
Count me in as a regular PETA basher... but in this case, I'll give credit where credit is due. A good idea on their part. Normally, their hairbrained actions to get media attention are worth laughing at... this time... great idea.
Keep on Civin'
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I'm sure some stupid mayor in a town like San Francisco or Washington DC will think "Hey! That's a great idea lets go buy fur coats and hand them out."
Thus revitalizing the fur coat industry
keep a bum warm, kill a minq
(Edit: please note that I used a "q", not a "g"...thank you)
HOw many homeless people will sell the furs (granted greatly devalued per the article) to buy drugs anyway?
Capitalisation - The difference between helping your uncle Jack off a horse, and helping your uncle jack off a horse
Grammar - The difference between knowing your $hit, and knowing you're $hit.
Spelling - The difference between being literate, and being Dinner.
Hitler was also a non-smoker and didn´t drink any alcohol. Health freaks are evil!
I love being beaten by women - Lorizael
I'm just wondering how they explain that the warming effect works better on homeless people than on people who normally wear furs.
Easy: The homeless don't have heated homes to go home to during the winter, so coats - even fur - are better than nothing.
The cake is NOT a lie. It's so delicious and moist.
The Weighted Companion Cube is cheating on you, that slut.
animal liberation front/earth liberation front,etc.Originally posted by St Leo
Originally posted by Japher
They're doing it so ALF will attack them with baseball bats and pipe bombs
What's ALF? Do you mean ATF?
It's a rather ingenious move on their part. No better way to make something unfashionable than have member of an (Unfortunately) despised group wearing them.
"I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
"I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand
I take you've never heard of grunge fashionOriginally posted by Shi Huangdi
It's a rather ingenious move on their part. No better way to make something unfashionable than have member of an (Unfortunately) despised group wearing them.
“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
- John 13:34-35 (NRSV)
It's an apology for causing the tsunamiWhy, PETA, why?
I can't imagine fur coats being worn by the type of people who wear grunge.
Probably the type of people who wear fur coats know would be most likely to be turned off by homeless people wearing them.
"I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer
"I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand
I think that fur coats seem like a good idea
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda Smith
Kill Petans and make coats of their skin!
Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok
PETA frequently does good things. They just aren't wacky enough to make the news.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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