Archive: The Violence of the Voiceless (PL)

No one cares about them. Their value to society is based on the most shallow of premises. They're left naked for days or weeks and then casually manipulated into obscene positions. Some are abandoned utterly, tossed into cold, dark warehouses and forgotten forever. Do we never learn? It was inevitable that they would begin to rise up and strike out against their oppressors.

Diana Newton, 51, of Westminster sued the J.C. Penney Co. last month after she was allegedly thwacked on the head by a department store dummy. Newton said she was ambushed by a legless female mannequin at the company's Westminster Mall store, a skirmish that left her with a bloodied scalp, a cracked tooth, recurring shoulder pain and numbness in her fingers.

The alleged attack was the latest in a string of mannequin mayhem incidents nationwide.

Be afraid. Be very afraid.