Lizard Womans plight ends

[ELKCHSR]

Tattoo Auction of Animal Rights Activist Ended

LONDON (Reuters) - A plan by an animal rights activist to sell-off a lizard tattoo on her right arm came unstuck Tuesday when the online auction house she was using pulled the plug on electronic bidding.

eBay UK removed "Lizard Skin," an auction offered by Ingrid Newkirk, the British founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) because her ad breached guidelines.

PETA, the world's biggest animal rights group, said eBay regarded the tattoo as "human remains" which contravened the company's policy to not allow auctions of human body parts.

Newkirk said in a statement she was unimpressed by the move:

"I am just another animal, these are animal remains," she said.

"You can't miss the irony when it is acceptable to steal skins from their original owners and auction them off, but forbidden to auction a person's voluntarily offered skin to be surrendered only upon her death."

Billed as "waterproof and weathered" and "suitable for making into a wallet or watch strap," the tattoo was offered to draw attention to the plight suffered by skinned animals.

Proceeds had been due to go to charity.

 

[Mojave]

Hmmm I wonder which charity she was planning to donate to? Let me think...

 

[barefooter19]

And they say hunters are crazy. and crool.

 

[WH's OutdoorsChick]

Let the Dumb Girl do it I say!!! LMAO

 

[Canoe]

Damn, now PETA will just have to do without the $0.68 that the auction would have raised for them. They're gonna have to cinch up their belts a little.

 

[ELKCHSR]

She should now donate it to the cause, there has to be some idiot celleb out there that would like to have one of these things. She should, if she was really serious about her cause, sell it now while it's still warm...