[url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/10/man-nails-testicles-red-square_n_4250355.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular]Article[/url] [quote]A Russian performance artist was hospitalised Sunday after stripping naked and nailing his testicles to a Red Square cobblestone in protest against the Kremlin's crackdown on political rights. A video of the graphic action, available on Russian websites, showed artist Pyotr Pavlensky sitting naked outside Lenin's Mausoleum being covered with a blanket by police officers while horrified passersby looked on. The state-run RIA Novosti news agency said Pavlensky was taken to a police station after being treated in a central Moscow clinic. The Saint Petersburg-based artist said in a statement posted on the Grani.ru website that he was trying to draw attention to Russian society's inaction in the face of the development of a "police state".[/quote] So, let's go over why nailing your testicles to a brick is a bad idea. First of all, it means that you're stuck in one place for the duration of your protest. When protesting, you want to be able to move around so that your message can reach more people. If your testicles are nailed to a brick, your message is limited to the people crazy enough to get near you, and that's not very efficient. Secondly, bricks are very hard to nail through, unless you have a nail gun. And since this guy was naked, I have to assume that he did not. So he either nailed through his testicles into solid brick, in which case he is insane, or he actually put the nail into a crack between the bricks, which would make him a bit of a pussy. The moral of this story is that you shouldn't nail your testicles to a brick in public. It's not a good way to protest.