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Hardcore teddy banned from bear parade
Reuters ^
| 05/24/05
| Staff
Posted on 05/25/2005 6:25:00 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher
ZURICH (Reuters) - A giant dominatrix teddy bear wearing a leather mask and brandishing hand-cuffs has been banned from sober Zurich's street display of man-sized model bears, the project's artistic director said Tuesday.
While tourists pose for snaps next to a brightly-painted and benign array of models such as the "schoolteacher bear" and the "skier bear," "Baervers" -- a pun on the German for perverse -- has been deemed too steamy for the financial capital's streets.
"This bear is perverse, dominatrix and hardcore. We had to ban it because of the children," Beat Seeberger-Quin, the project's art director, told Reuters.
The offending bear, which sports bright red lipstick, a corset and thigh-length leather boots, stands atop a pedestal bearing the words "first class service."
Some 600 teddies, variously decorated by artists, stud the streets of Zurich and its airport in the "Teddy-Summer" project.
The controversial model had been allocated a place near Zurich's Paradeplatz, home to Switzerland's top banks such as Credit Suisse and UBS, before Seeberger-Quin spotted the final design and decided to ban it.
The dominatrix bear's creators now seek a private home for their sadomasochist teddy. At least "Baervers" will not face the same hazards as his publicly-displayed peers, some of which have been vandalized or even kidnapped.
"Two or three of the bears have been splashed with paint, and one bear -- a nice small bear wearing a little dress -- has been stolen," Seeberger-Quin said.
TOPICS: Conspiracy; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dombear
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To: teenyelliott
I don't want to tell freepdom of all your tawdry secrets!
141
posted on
05/25/2005 9:13:54 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: BerthaDee
I know, I know.
My only saving grace is that I caught it before anyone else did. Doh!
142
posted on
05/25/2005 9:14:05 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: MamaTexan
You realize Texas is not that far from Kansas.
143
posted on
05/25/2005 9:15:21 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: pissant; teenyelliott
I don't want to tell freepdom of all your tawdry secrets!Yeah...he's already on number 57!
144
posted on
05/25/2005 9:15:47 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: Dashing Dasher; Allegra
Kiss 'em for me too (from host of BerthaDee). And do whatever it is you would think Bertha wouuld do to, em, too.
145
posted on
05/25/2005 9:17:01 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
To: pissant
I've got no secrets. I am an open book.
A horror book, maybe, but an open one nonetheless.
146
posted on
05/25/2005 9:17:05 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: teenyelliott
Know, what I am saying, is it could become epiq.
You are teddy bear is a whore.
Yeah, I like it.
147
posted on
05/25/2005 9:19:17 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
To: BerthaDee; teenyelliott
wow, i really whent out of the whay to misspell "no."
148
posted on
05/25/2005 9:20:03 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
To: BerthaDee
149
posted on
05/25/2005 9:20:07 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: MamaTexan
150
posted on
05/25/2005 9:20:13 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: teenyelliott
You realize Texas is not that far from Kansas. ROFLMAO!
True...
but there's MILES and MILES of Texas!
(And I'm confident you'd come across an awful lot of good-lookin' Texas boys that would distract you LONG before you found me)
151
posted on
05/25/2005 9:21:37 AM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(I would rather stand with the few who are right than the many who are wrong!)
To: BerthaDee
Stop making fun of me. Or no food for you.
152
posted on
05/25/2005 9:23:02 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: Dashing Dasher
I can only hope you are a parole officer. I worked for the Social Security Administration. She was filing for disability for a family member.
153
posted on
05/25/2005 9:24:43 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Admit Nothing. Deny Everything. Make Counter Accusations.)
To: Skooz
154
posted on
05/25/2005 9:25:03 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: teenyelliott
If you say so...
155
posted on
05/25/2005 9:25:10 AM PDT
by
pissant
(headache gone!)
To: BerthaDee; MamaTexan
Kiss 'em for me too (from host of BerthaDee). And do whatever it is you would think Bertha wouuld do to, em, too. Uh-oh. ROFL
Gotta go. It's nighttime and there are a bunch of hunks knocking on my door.
I believe the Emergency Damage Team has arrived. I shall be indisposed for quite some time... :-D
156
posted on
05/25/2005 9:25:18 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(The Green Zone....It's a Blast.)
To: pissant
Why is your headache gone?
157
posted on
05/25/2005 9:27:47 AM PDT
by
teenyelliott
(Soylent green should be made outta liberals...)
To: Dashing Dasher; MamaTexan
You two are torturing my poor baby sister.
Keep up the good work!
158
posted on
05/25/2005 9:28:04 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
To: BerthaDee
159
posted on
05/25/2005 9:28:30 AM PDT
by
Dashing Dasher
(Unthinkably good things can happen, even late in the game.)
To: teenyelliott
Please don't take my food away! I'll be good, I promise.
If you don't feed me who will?
160
posted on
05/25/2005 9:29:43 AM PDT
by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - A consumption tax which replaces the income tax, SS tax, death tax, etc.)
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