Apparently, revenge is best served on a pie plate.
A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protester, dressed up as a
seal and waiting for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to arrive for a speech in
St. John's, Nfld. on Friday, had a cream pie shoved into her face by a man
dressed like a dog in a fisherman's outfit.
The man knocked 21-year-old Emily Lavender's seal head off before planting
the pie on her face and then running down the street.
Lavender told the media that she was happy to take a pie in the face for her
cause.
The incident happened just hours after a St. John's blog suggested
retaliation for an incident earlier this week. Fisheries minister Gail Shae
was pied by a member of PETA while giving a speech in Burlington, Ont.
“If I was not working this afternoon, I would certainty think about
purchasing a can of paint and covering the seal mascot in it, or better yet,
giving it a seal flipper pie in the face,” the author of signal.ca wrote
Friday morning.
St. John's residents knew the “spokesseal” would be in town after PETA
announced Thursday the mascot would be on hand to follow the prime minister
as he arrived in the province.
Harper was in St. John's to address the Canadian Construction Association
and then to meet with Premier Danny Williams.
Jordan Strikler, a Corner Brook, Nfl., resident who started an anti-PETA
Facebook group this week - called I Care about Animals but Not the Radical
Views and Actions of PETA! - admitted he laughed when he heard about the
incident, but he wasn't sure it was the best idea.
“It made me smile, but I'm not sure yet if I think it was a smart move,” he
told QMI Agency. “It's stooping to their level.”
But he also added, “If you can dish it, you've got to be able to take it.”
Earlier this week, Newfoundland MP Gerry Byrne said PETA should be labeled a
terrorist group after the pie-in-the-face incident.
