Cut Yourself And Bleed Out

A very popular form of protest in the future. Basically if you have a problem with something, The Internet for example, you just walk into a Telstra Shop and cut yourself. The art involved here is trying to bleed out before they can manage to get you to the hospital. Most of the time they will manage to get you there on time and you get to live. The goal here being to get free internet or maybe you won't have to pay your next bill.

How It All Started And Stopped
This trend started pretty quickly, almost over night. The first protester to light this flame was a young guy named Steven who was pissed off because he had to wait in line at Centerlink for two hours only to find out the reason he went in there was easily achieveable online but would also require him to come back in days later to finalize things but they could not help him until he went online then lined back up. This is pretty typical and Steven just had enough, Cut himself and just went and found somewhere to try and bleed out. So he's bleeding out on this womans desk, getting blood all over her paperwork and her photos of her kids. She's just screaming "WHAT THE FUCK?" while everyone else was either calling an ambulance or trying to get closer to see what all the commotion was about. He recovered in hospital and later got a phone call from Centerlink saying that everything is sorted and he doesn't have to come in again, ever.

Well, it wasn't long after he got all of his blood back that old Steven was at it again. He went on a cutting rampage, he would just cut over everything and no one could stop him, he was taking the world hostage and generally disturbing the populace. Some he disturbed so much that they followed him and joined this cutting revolution. Suddenly people were cutting mad and just cutting themselves everywhere and no one could eat. It wasn't until Steven died that people decided to stop.

The Death Of Steven
One day Steven got sick of his mail being delivered all damaged so he had an idea. He waited until he was next expecting mail and when the mail man came Steven cut himself right in front of the mail man and shouted "WE DEMAND UNDAMAGED LETTERS". The mail man freaked out and sped off on his little scooter motorbike thing they have, leaving poor Steven there to die. The news made the headlines pretty quick and everybody suddenly saw the danger of cutting themselves and bleeding out.

The Aftermath
Everything was still pretty intense for a while once the cutting died down but eventually businesses went back to usual and hospitals too. There was still the odd report of Cutting For Justice but it just wasn't funny anymore and is considered to be of poor taste.