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Stages battle against Canadians undead

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Animal rights stunt-group PETA' is protesting Canada's culling of adorable baby seals this year by hosting a battle royale in World of Warcraft.

This Saturday, PETA is calling on activist gamers to combat a team of Horde "seal killers" set on bashing soft, furry heads on WoW's Whisperwind server. The demonstration takes place in the high-level zone of The Howling Fjord on the glaciers where baby seals frolic unassumingly.

PETA has cooked up a little story for the event:

Thrall refused to ban the slaughter of seals, despite multiple requests from the Alliance to do so, because Orgrimmar stands to make a large profit from the fur.

Activists from across the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are banding together to put a stop to the atrocious seal slaughter. Anyone who slaughters baby seals for their fur must surely be in service to the evil Lich King.

The event takes place in a PVE server, meaning players on WoW's Horde faction can't do violence against Alliance players until they flag themselves for combat. But PETA's blog posting indicates the event is a "battleground to stop the slaughter" against a team of four Horde, so there's a very decent chance that's going to happen and end in a clusterfuck of violence.

After all, PETA is catering to an enormous audience of players that will raid a funeral service on WoW for laughs. Not to mention it's a game where players spend untold hours slaughtering the wildlife for fun and profit.

Here's a promotional video PETA has made for the event:

Note the accurate representation of Canadians as the undead — although their US southern accents are a bit baffling, eh?

PETA's sealing protest begins Saturday, April 11 at 1 PM EST. ®

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Latest Comments

Let's settle this like Canadians

Have PETA send over their best hockey team and we'll sort them.

Survivors, ahem, I mean, Winners get to say who clubs who.

If PETA wins (unlikely) they get to feed the families who depend on the seal hunt in one of the poorest areas of Canada. It's easy to criticize others when your 2,000 miles away and under nourish your children by choice (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/perversions_of_nature/ )

so puck off, PETA, eh!

(mines the one with the touque in the pocket, even in July)

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Anonymous Coward

Wahoo

My horde toon ClubbingJoy is ready to go.. time to wash down a few tasty baby seal burgers with some alliance blood.. yum yum..

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Vid is gone

I wonder who complained and got it removed.

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