The latest Washingtonian adventure in animal rights protests by PETA — which, over the last several months, have included showing “baby elephants [being] gouged with steel-tipped bullhooks” at the Verizon Center, giving away a vasectomy and blasting farts along Pennsylvania Avenue — will hit D.C. today. And frankly, it seems more cruel to the people conducting it than anything else.

According to the organization, six members of PETA will be locked up at noon inside cages at 1201 G Street NW to protest fur farms:

Sweltering in full-length fur coats, six PETA members will endure the summer heat as they confine themselves to small cages on a street corner in downtown Washington on Tuesday. They will hold signs with the taglines “Summer Is No Vacation for Animals” and “Animals Are Not Ours to Wear.” Their point? Not only do fur-bearing animals suffer when they’re skinned alive, they also suffer during the summer months when confined to cages in extremely hot temperatures.

One protester said in PETA’s announcement of the protest that “I can leave the cage any time I want.” Good thing for him that the upcoming “Sahara-like” heat wave hasn’t arrived yet.