"Eek the Geek" studies to become a lawyer for freaks.

Eduardo Arrocha, who began classes this semester at Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan, has found a new calling. Arrocha, decided on a new career in law after spending the last 15 years eating nails and walking on glass in his role as "Eek the Geek" in a Coney Island sideshow.

When he is not digesting 10 penny nails and strolling through broken glass, he is a poet and artist who has toured with a hard-core punk band.

His solo act at Coney Island "displays his many tattoos, includes a lecture on diversity and stands three audience members on his chest as he lies sandwiched between two beds of nails." With that combination of skills and talent, he has "trial lawyer" tattooed written all over him.

Arrocha says that he hopes to use his law degree to speak for "alternative people" like himself. "I hope to have a little office in New York," he said, "and work with the alternative people, all the so-called riffraff, to give them legal representation that is not judgmental." He continued, "I know it sounds weird, but I want to be a freak lawyer."

I like this guy and I really do wish him well. Of course after eating nails and walking on broken glass for a living, the New York Bar Exam should be a piece of cake.

From the Associated Press via Newsvine.