Cascades stages biofuel stunt

Published:  20 May, 2010

Cascades Shopping Centre is fully supporting one of its newest tenants, soap retailer Lush, in the store’s upcoming live knife-throwing event. The event, due to take place outside Cascades Kingswell Path entrance on 19 May, will demonstrate the dangers of biofuel by strapping Lush’s store manager to a ‘Biofuel Wheel of Misfortune’ while a knife thrower hurls foot-long razor knives at him.
Store manager Tom Pearson will be dressed as an orang-utan and strapped to a spinning wheel which highlights deforestation, endangered orang-utans and massive carbon emissions as problems linked to the use of biofuel.
Rhoda Joseph, centre director of Cascades said: “The arrival of Lush has been a fantastic addition to the shopping centre.  We have seen a marked increase in footfall since the opening and we are ecstatic that the Cascades store was chosen as one of the two stores to hold the event and promote the campaign.