2005

Contents

• 1 Events
  • 1.1 March
  • 1.2 April
  • 1.3 May
  • 1.4 June
  • 1.5 July
  • 1.6 August
  • 1.7 December
  • 1.8 Unknown dates

Events

March

• BME's first interns, Jordan Ginsberg and Gillian Hyde were hired and moved to La Paz, BCS, Mexico.

April

• April 1—"Love at First Bite" April Fools article was published.
• April 16 - Matthew Henshaw swallowed a sword and hung a 20.1kg sack of potatoes off of the handle for 5 seconds, breaking a world record.

May

• May 20, 21, 22—The first ScarWars event was held in Philadelphia.

June

• June 24th—BMEfest 2005 was held in La Paz, BCS, Mexico.
• June 30th—Karolyne Smith became the first woman to have her forehead permanently tattooed with a company logo as a form of advertisement.

July

• July 11th—Keith Alexander passed away.

August

• August 5th—ModBlog was added to the BME community
• August 28—The Weirdo Menace event, the 4th annual Bowling With Weirdos, is hosted by Brian Sowden in Norristown, PA.

December

• December 8 - Master Piercer, Dan Kopka passed away.

Unknown dates

• In early 2005 ModBlog was founded.
• Late 2005—BMEvideo was added to the BME community
• Final Scenes were filmed for Uvatiarru and editing began.
• Cliff Cadaver retired from the piercing industry.
• Shawn Porter retired the SPC website.
• Bellavendetta.com launched.