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hi again i've had a lot of queries about why on earth i would move from bermuda to ottawa this kind of thing never happens in bermuda... your [former vegetarian and now re-thinking] cybyrsys janet ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 'Human chickens' fly the coop after 168 hours ----------------------------------------------------------------------- OTTAWA (November 2, 1997 00:34 a.m. EST http://www.nando.net) - Two "human chickens" were released from their cage Saturday after being cooped up together for 168 hours on display for passers-by. Eric Wolf and Pamela Meldrum, both 27, were paid 2,500 dollars (1,750 U.S.) each to be cooped up together for a week, surviving on water from a hose-pipe and a vegetarian mash, which they both described as tasteless. The exhibit at Canada's national arts center was to demonstrate the plight of chicken locked up day after day without food or comfort. The idea was dreamt up by artist Rob Thompson for a video production on animal slaughter. The only concession to the two featherless "chickens" was a toilet discreetly hidden by a curtain. The couple, who met only a couple of hours before being caged together without any bedding, admitted to getting on well with each other -- although Meldrum did complain a couple of times about her partner's smelly feet. Wolf said that, for him, sitting on the floor of the cage was difficult. "My neck is ready to fall right off my shoulders," he said. Meldrum said that, apart from the physical discomfort and the smell of Wolf's feet, one of the most difficult problems was having to answer the same questions "hundreds of times" from different journalists. Copyright 1997 Nando.net Copyright 1997 Agence France-Presse <http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/health/110297/health8_14644_noframes.html> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- janet paterson - 50/9 - sinemet/selegiline/prozac - [log in to unmask]