So, today over on the Whisperwind server on World of Warcraft, PeTA was supposed to be holding an event to protest the killing of baby seals. Leaving aside the fact that staging an event on a WoW server is not going to help one single baby seal, I thought that it would at least be entertaining to see. So, my fiance' and I decided to create a couple of Horde characters on Whisperwind (since there was no way in hell we were going to pay 25 bucks to transfer our characters, more on that in a bit,), and head over to watch the fun. We logged on about a half hour before the event, and even though our characters were only at level 9, we figured what the hell. Sure, we'd get killed an awful lot, but at least we might get a good laugh out of it. So we hopped on a Zep from Orgrimmar and were on our way.

Right after getting to Vengeance Landing, we realized that it was going to be fun. Immediately, we were invited into the guild Seal Clubbing Club, joined, got in a raid group and were summoned to the location of the event. Just as I expected, it was absolute chaos. People were running all over the area slaughtering Lion seals like there was no tomorrow, making fun of PeTA, and letting loose a storm of emotes about making seal sandwiches.

Early on, we tried to participate in the slaughter, but since we were only level 9, there really wasn't a whole lot that we were able to do. Eventually, it just turned into the two of us running around the area, getting killed a few times, and picking up things off of corpses. The funny thing was that there was only one instance over the hour that I spent there before bailing since all my equipment was red from being repeatedly killed by creatures that were level 68 and up of someone that seemed to be on the side of PeTA. I couldn't see what was going on in all the chaos, but I'm sure that person got griefed like crazy, and probably ended up logging off. Other than that, there was no evidence at all that anyone from PeTA even showed up. My guess is that a few "scouts" probably went on, realized what was going on, saw that there was no way this BRILLIANT event of theirs was going to work, and called it off. Either that, or they now plan on waiting until everyone gets bored waiting for them to show up and THEN have the event. Either way, The Great Canadian Seal Killing Protest is a study in epic fail. But hey, I had some fun, and I ended up looting enough stuff from seal corpses to get my level 9 hunter around 3 and a half gold. So thanks, PeTA for the fun hour!

Seriously, I don't know who over there thought that this was going to be a good idea, but I'm fairly sure that they've never really played an MMO like WoW before. Probably someone in the organization plays, suggested this, and they ran with it without really thinking it through. Of course, I shouldn't be surprised. We are talking about the same group that asked the Pet Shop Boys to change their name to the Rescue Shelter Boys earlier this week. Yeah.

So, for all their talk, it looks like PeTA failed to deliver once again, and the only thing that ended up happening was a bunch of computer generated seals got slaughtered. I'm sure they'll put up some form of self-righteous condemnation of WoW players for this, but oh well. I think I'm strong enough to live with their disapproval. It'll be a struggle, but I'll get by one day at a time. If you weren't there and want to see what happened, I'm sure a bunch of vids of it will show up on YouTube somewhere this week. Just search for peta and seals, and you'll probably be rewarded with a bunch of videos of digital seal slaughter, badly typed emotes, and roaring PeTA mockery.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to make myself a cheese burger. All that laughing has made me very hungry.

Carry on Smartly...