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In its July 15 newsletter, Americans for Medical Progress reported a short but amusing tale of folly involving People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which is worth repeating verbatim:
This week, after putting out a tasteless news release announcing that a "mad cow" was going to attack a federal building in Oklahoma, PETA's demonstration about mad cow disease was thwarted when an important prop got lost in shipping. The protest called for a person in a cow suit to hit a six foot foam rubber brain with a baseball bat. Only half the brain arrived in Tulsa. No doubt AMP News readers will come up with a fitting closing line to this tale...