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.

[MamaTexan]

I believe the Emergency Damage Team has arrived. I shall be indisposed for quite some time... :-D

LOL! Good night, take care!

(And please DON'T do whatever Bertha would do!!!! I might NEVER get them back on the plane )

[teenyelliott]

If you don't feed me who will?

You might want to remember that in the future, little one.

Although, your future might be closer than you think . . .

We'll see in a couple of weeks.

[MamaTexan]

ROFLMAO!

Happy to oblige!

[Skooz]

She really wasn't. Not at all. But her shirt was intriguing, given my inclinations.

[Finger Monkey]

DON'T call me little one.

My future begins next Thursday.

Maybe.

Don't be counting any chickens.

[pissant]

Whoopi goldberg mouth? Sounds like a disease!

[Finger Monkey]

Ooops. I hope no one is spying.

[teenyelliott]

Surely not. You only made that statement on a website that hundreds of thousands of people see!

But it only takes one to look at your post history.

[teenyelliott]

I can't count chickens. They move too quickly.

[thag]

"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"

Thag will rip your clothes off any time...especially when you say things like "titter"..........

[Finger Monkey]

Stop looking at my post history. It is private.

No one is looking, are they?

I thought all of these people were just invisible friends.

They aren't real people are they?

I thought they were just in my head.

Thag, pissant, are you real?

[Finger Monkey]

titter.

[thag]

"I can't count chickens. They move too quickly."

Ever choke one?????

[Finger Monkey]

Why would anyone choke a chicken, that would be mean.

If you had a chicken, would you like someone to choke it?

Dang, thag, sometimes you can be so cruel.

[thag]

Sorry, that was just an out-of-hand comment......

Thag go back sleep now.........snort.......

[teenyelliott]

Of course not. I'm a PETA recruit.

[pissant]

nuttin but figments!

[teenyelliott]

Think about the box . . .

[Dashing Dasher]

[Skooz]

OK. I read the page you linked. Very nice.

Now, I just need to buy the millions of reams of paper required to supply every woman on Earth with a hard copy.