DISCLAIMER: I HAVE A DREAM
I have a dream. Well, not so much a dream, really. More like one of those, what do you call the wakey-time dreams? Incredibly detailed and elaborate assassination fantasies? Right. So. I have a dream. In my dream I abseil from the top of a sky-scraper right through the front window of McDonalds. Ronald McDonald is there. Waiting. Waiting for me. I have a piano wire with me. I do what needs to be done.
Then I fly - slowly, majestically, like an eagle - back to the top of my sky-scraper. It's a nice dream.
I guess it's a little disturbing, but now I've shared it with you I feel much better. Also, I'm probably not the only one who has these thoughts - these ideas - am I?
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INTRODUCTION: ROCK'N'ROLL MCDONALDS
So as I was having a flashback to my detailed assassinate Ronald McDonald with piano wire fantasy [wait what? I had a flashback to a fantasy? WOW! SO WRONG!] I'm sure you can imagine my happy surprise when I found an article about a group in Finland called The Food Liberation Army who have done just that. Let's see what this reputable, mainstream publication has to say about it:
Children look away now: Food campaigners carry out sick spoof threat to behead Ronald McDonald after taking statue as 'hostage' [Daily Mail online, February 12, 2011]
Campaigners for ethically produced food today carried out their threat to behead Ronald McDonald - in a sick publicity stunt that has been branded 'poor taste' by the restaurant chain. Members of a group calling themselves the 'Food Liberation Army' staged the beheading in a Helsinki art gallery, after sparking outrage last week by releasing an Al Qaeda-style spoof video in which they were seen holding a hooded Ronald McDonald hostage.
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Members of the group stole a Ronald McDonald statue from a Helsinki restaurant on January 31, posting their videoed demands on YouTube days later. Finnish police later recovered the statue and arrested two of the members. But the group had prepared their own version of the iconic fast food character, which was executed in a performance with a guillotine today. Artist Jani Leinonen was present at the event - unmasked this time as he posed for photographers with the disconnected head of Ronald.
Mr Leinonen is one of the two members of the group who was arrested earlier this week. In the original YouTube video, the group are seen in black balaclavas with Ronald in the foreground, wearing a hood. The spokesman threatens to execute the character if the fast food chain refuses to answer questions about how it produces its products. McDonalds told MailOnline after the footage was released that the stunt was 'in very poor taste'. It also denied the group's suggestion that it was attempting to hide details about its food quality and manufacturing processes.
