Hardcore teddy banned from bear parade

Reuters ^ | 05/24/05 | Staff

[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.

[pissant]

Well keep safe, will ya! And give the soldiers a HUGE THANKS from all the freepers!!!!

Love to find out more about what you're up to when ya recover from looking at Skooz in that picture!

[MamaTexan]

I mean "my way posthaste." See, I just got all flustered and distracted...

{swoon}

ROFL!

Sure, I'll send them your way ASAP!

Would you like them to arrive in broad daylight, or would you rather they arrive clandestinely so you don't have to 'share'?

:)

[Dashing Dasher]

Hey, are you in Iraq now?

Yep.
Home, sweet home. ;-)

While you're there...
Can you kiss a soldier for me!
Thanks!

[Dashing Dasher]

HAIRBALL

[MamaTexan]

Ya know Lady...I could have happily lived the rest of my life without seeing that!

:)

[pissant]

Hey, I have that shirt!

[teenyelliott]

I just thought you were having a 'Yoda' morning

Nope. Just a moron moment.

[Finger Monkey]

Ooooo, don't let thag see that, he doesn't like to be called a hairball. He gets very angry and starts, well, he starts ripping my clothes off.

titter

[Dashing Dasher]

Teeny gets jealous when Pissant flirts with Dasher.

Or... as Yoda would say, "Pissant flirts with Dasher, jealous Teeny gets. "

[Allegra]

Would you like them to arrive in broad daylight, or would you rather they arrive clandestinely so you don't have to 'share'?

Oh, let's go for the after sundown option. (Which is right about now.)

I've been away from home too long and I don't wanna share those guys. ;-)

{Slipping back over to that first page for another look.}

[teenyelliott]

Ummmmm, you think that is cute?????

(backing away slowly)

[Dashing Dasher]

Send pix of what you have over there. I'm sure you have some hunks ...

I live in SF and we just have gays, lesbians, tran-sexuals and metro-sexuals to look at around here.

[Dashing Dasher]

I was giving an example....

[Allegra]

While you're there...
Can you kiss a soldier for me!

It would be my pleasure. Happy to oblige.

[teenyelliott]

I do not. I welcome the extra free time.

And if you don't stop that infernal Yoda crap, I'm gonna put your bear under my car.

[Dashing Dasher]

If you take your pills, the bear will die not.

[MamaTexan]

"Pissant flirts with Dasher, jealous Teeny gets. "

LOL!

(But you realize pissant flirts with just about everybody....right?)

[Dashing Dasher]

New information crushed Dasher, if said is true.

[MamaTexan]

Oh, let's go for the after sundown option. (Which is right about now.)

OK. Lie down, close you eyes, and they'll be there eventually :)

(OH! OH! Kiss a soldier for me too......and he doesn't even HAVE to be from Texas!)

[Allegra]

I live in SF and we just have gays, lesbians, tran-sexuals and metro-sexuals to look at around here.

I must admit, I've become a bit spoiled. I've been surrounded by nobly manly-men for quite some time. And the younger guys are all good clean-cut, noble men. Nothing pierced, no mohawks, no snotbag attitudes...

I did however, observe a few young Iraqi men (very sweet) who work for us standing around today taking a break and jamming out to some rap music. I thought "Oh, man, we are so corrupting these people..." LOL