Posted on 02/10/2012 12:30:30 PM PST by billorites
An Ontario strip club that was the impetus for a law against so-called dwarf-tossing is at it again. The law never passed, so Leopard's Lounge & Broil, in Windsor is holding another dwarf-tossing contest Saturday.
"Uncle Leos has invited back our little friend for the party of the year," says the club's Facebook page.
"All skill levels of dwarf tossers are welcome to attend this event (from rookies to veterans to dwarf-tossing pros)."
Dwarf-tossing involves bar patrons throwing a little person volunteer, usually dressed in padded clothing, onto a mattress. Participants compete to see who can throw him or her the farthest.
Leopard's Lounge hosted a similar contest in 2003, which prompted area MPP Sandra Pupatello to introduce a private member's bill to make the activity illegal.
"This evening in my riding, a particular establishment is actually planning an event that includes dwarf-tossing. My community is up in arms. My phones have been besieged. The community is outraged that this event should be allowed to happen," Pupatello said to the legislature in June of that year.
The Dwarf Tossing Ban Act proposed a fine up to $5,000 and/or imprisonment up to six months for anyone who organizes or engages in a dwarf-tossing event, but it never got past first reading.
In his Golden Globe acceptance speech for Game of Thrones earlier this month, actor Peter Dinklage name-checked Martin Henderson and encouraged the audience to Google the name. Henderson is a four-foot-two aspiring actor in Britain who was badly injured after being tossed by a drunk man outside a pub in England, in October.
Whether you can toss dwarfs on a Los Angeles’ beach remains unclear...
What are they going to do next, ban midget porn?
If they’d make it legal in the US we could get the unemployment rate down below 7% fast!
Probably have to hire illegal midgets....ours won’t do it.
Timely LMAO!!!
On or near the beach, it's a $1000 fine for dwarf throwing, Memorial Day to Labor Day. (A dwarf is not a volley ball...) Additionally, if the dwarf sticks the landing hard enough, the little person will exceed the 18 inch digging limit and thus incur a separate $1,000 fine.
How ugly do the girls have to be, when this is the “added attraction”?
UNLESS you're tossing the dwarf in or over the Pacific Ocean, or of course if you have obtained a dwarf-tossing permit in advance.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse... ;-)
Dude, it's Canada. Some of the "girls" are brown bears...
Midgets make money doing this. Leave ‘em alone. They WANT to do it. Nobody is holding a gun to their little heads. Oh. Sorry. I’m using common sense and logic. Won’t work.
What about shooting them out of a cannon?
So I tossed a dwarf as far as I could. He bounced off the floor and slammed into the wall.
Dwarf got up, came back and said to me “I’m not happy.”
I replied “Well which one are you?”
I wonder if the Leopard’s Lounge will be adding dwarf bowling to their line up of participatory activities?
Sandra Pupatello, the Party Pooper.
To paraphrase Groucho, "I wouldn't be seen with a girl would accompany me to such a place."
Well, the one in the miniskirt maybe...
Oh, my heavens!
It's Mitt Romney at lower left!
“Dwarf-tossing pros” - You can make a living doing this? I suppose they’ll have dwarf-tossing teams in college. Probably can get a scholarship in it.
“I lettered in Dwarf-tossing at Berkley. They offered me a full-ride scholarship for the sex toy team at Northwestern, too.”
Can you bring your own Dwarf, or does a tosser have to use a supplied Dwarf?
Well this has to be the headline of the day.
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