perfidy

Those crazy jokers at PETA sent a fax to Roy whatsisface the gay tiger man, y'know, the man in the hospital for near-beheading-by-tiger, which read in part, "neener, neener, neener!"

Actually, it didn't, but almost. From the New York Newsday tabloid-type article:

"Perhaps Friday's frightening incident will make you realize that a brightly lit stage with pounding music and a screaming audience is not the natural habitat for tigers, lions, or any other exotic animals," PETA Vice President Dan Mathews wrote.

"The only natural thing that happened on that stage was that this majestic animal lashed out against a captor who was beating him with a microphone because he wouldn't do a trick," Mathews continued. "No matter how much you say that you love the wild animals whom you have confined continents away from their natural homes, you are still the men who have subjugated their wills and natures to further your own careers."

The pain of letting PETA down hurts Roy worse than his near-fatal neck wounds, I betcha anything.

Regardless of what you might think about the ethics of training animals to perform as Sigfried and Roy do, most reasonable people will agree with me that PETA has chosen to take the crude, wilfully sanctimonious approach to making their point. As usual.