Ick, I feel like I need a shower. That’s not the usual feeling I get after reading the Herald, but Friday’s front page left me feeling like I’d been rolled around in a cat box. What is the newsworthiness of a story on an exhibitionist who aggressively engages in self-mutilation? Your reporter should have gotten a clue when he learned that no board certified plastic surgeon (or any kind of surgeon, not even a tree surgeon) was willing to do the procedure. And did your reporter even think to ask a plastic surgeon what the ramifications of back alley plastic surgery might be? (Silicone injections in the face! A man-made harelip! Removal of the septum!) Of course not, just a “ain’t it cool” attitude that makes it sound larky and fun. And why can’t this poor man get a job? Narrow-minded people refuse to hire him because he looks like a mutant! He needs a lot more than just a job. Please, no more sick articles like this. Leave this kind of stuff to the freaks on the Internet.
Richard A. Mestis
Marysville
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