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London-based performance artist Mark McGowan ate a dog during a radio broadcast yesterday. This is just one in a string of bizarre stunts McGowan has performed to protest everything from people being rude during the holidays to student debt.

The dog, a corgi which died of natural causes at a breeding cause, was chosen specifically. The Queen’s favorite breed was dished up for McGowan’s dinner as a protest against what he considers animal cruelty doled out by the Royal Family.

McGowan is a vegetarian - but he once ate a swan as part of a performance. While eating, he told Resonance FM listeners that the dog was, “Disgusting, it’s really, really, really disgusting.”

DJ Bob Smith said he wasn’t convinced the meat was actually dog - “It’s stinky, white-looking. It’s not like any meat I’ve ever seen,” he said.

McGowan said he had the utmost faith in the women who’d prepared his corgi meal. The dog meat was minced, and mixed with apples, onions and spices - the resulting meatballs were served up with pita bread and a side salad.

After the show, McGowan seemed pleased with his ‘performance’. “To me it was, as an art piece, exhilarating,” he said.

German auto mechanic Klaus “Shorty” Meuller was trying to help a customer and ended up causing a full-scale police chase.

Meuller, who voluntarily climbed into the trunk of a customer’s car in an effort to diagnose a rattling noise, was mistaken for a child by a woman in a nearby apartment. She thought she’d witnessed a kidnapping in progress and called the Bremen police as the car drove away from the scene.

“A major investigation and manhunt was immediately launched and the car and its driver were apprehended,” said a police spokesperson.

Upon opening the trunk, police discovered that the “kidnapped boy” was Meuller. Meuller explained he’d asked to be driven around in the trunk to get to the bottom of the customer’s noise issue.

Meuller had used the same technique to solve a number of other strange noise issues for his customers without incident.