Tentacles

As if it wasn't already bad enough working for McDonald's, now you have to clean up this.

Armed with a high-pressure hose and a bucket of octopi, hundreds of protestors in this Mediterranean town pelted a McDonalds restaurant due to open this week with the slimy seafood. Between 300 and 500 people gathered on the banks of the Sete canal, across from the fast-food outlet, playing music and yelling anti-junk-food slogans across the water, as police barred them from reaching the restaurant itself. Aiming the hose across the water, they catapulted fresh octopi -- a local delicacy, known here as the "pouffre" -- towards the town's first McDonalds, which had been set to open on Saturday.

An octopus cannon. Well, they certainly earn points for originality. I have a picture in my head of several hundred people on a riverbank, erupting in French-accented cheers every time an octopus goes hurtling across the river and ruptures against the golden arches. It's like a scene from a Monty Python movie.