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]

I don't want to tell freepdom of all your tawdry secrets!

[teenyelliott]

I know, I know.

My only saving grace is that I caught it before anyone else did. Doh!

[teenyelliott]

You realize Texas is not that far from Kansas.

[MamaTexan]

I don't want to tell freepdom of all your tawdry secrets!

Yeah...he's already on number 57!

[Finger Monkey]

Kiss 'em for me too (from host of BerthaDee). And do whatever it is you would think Bertha wouuld do to, em, too.

[teenyelliott]

I've got no secrets. I am an open book.

A horror book, maybe, but an open one nonetheless.

[Finger Monkey]

Know, what I am saying, is it could become epiq.

You are teddy bear is a whore.

Yeah, I like it.

[Finger Monkey]

wow, i really whent out of the whay to misspell "no."

[Dashing Dasher]

[pissant]

and counting.....

[MamaTexan]

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)

[teenyelliott]

Stop making fun of me. Or no food for you.

[Skooz]

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.

[Dashing Dasher]

She sounds lovely.

[pissant]

If you say so...

[Allegra]

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

[teenyelliott]

Why is your headache gone?

[Finger Monkey]

You two are torturing my poor baby sister.

Keep up the good work!

[Dashing Dasher]

Torture is our business!

[Finger Monkey]

Please don't take my food away! I'll be good, I promise.

If you don't feed me who will?