A seal hunt protester with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was pied in St. John's on Friday by someone dressed up in a Newfoundland dog costume.
The incident happened on a street corner in the downtown, while people were waiting for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who was in the city for a speech to the construction industry association.
PETA had earlier warned that it would protest the Canadian seal hunt during the Harper event.
Someone dressed in a seal suit accompanied the protester, Emily Lavender, 21, of Vancouver Island, B.C.
However, in a twist, it turned out the person wearing the outfit was an employee of K-Rock — a private FM radio station in St. John's — who contacted PETA in the morning and offered to help with the protest.
Shortly after the protest began, Jason Mills unzipped the costume and started denouncing PETA and its protests in front of the cameras.
Lavender then put the suit on herself and started to continue the protest when a van pulled up and a person dressed in a Newfoundland dog costume jumped out, pulled off the head of Lavender's costume and pushed a cream pie into her face.
