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 wrote "You are bear is a whore." My bad.

ROFL!

I just thought you were having a 'Yoda' morning!

[thag]

"I once had a client at my desk wearing a TShirt that read:
Cuffs and leather and a whip that stings-
These are a few of my favorite thing

.
I can only hope you are a parole officer."

Thag like so much he steal for Thagline!!!!

[Dashing Dasher]

Whatever makes thag happy.

[MamaTexan]

Thag like so much he steal for Thagline!!!!

LOLOLOLOLOL!

(What can I say...I'm easily amused)

[Allegra]

Psssst.....over here.

A beary, beary perverse ping.

[Dashing Dasher]

I see what you mean... I am not a Star Wars fan and had to look up Yoda Speak.

"Truly wonderful, the mind of a child is." —Yoda

"Around the survivors a perimeter, create." —Yoda

"Much to learn, you still have." —Yoda

[teenyelliott]

She's a Dominatrix - that's different

My mistake. I meant to say your bear is a mean bee-atch. :)

[Allegra]

Oh....wow. The Emergency Damage Team.

Will you please dispatch them my say posthaste?

I have an emergency damage thingy.

[Finger Monkey]

You should have stolen it off of his back. That's the kind of action I expect from my little Thaggy-baby.

Raour.

Lick,

Bertha.

[pissant]

Hey, are you in Iraq now?

[Allegra]

Will you please dispatch them my say posthaste?

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

{swoon}

[Dashing Dasher]

Bertha,

May I inquire about the "Lick" comment?

[teenyelliott]

Even if the beast is cute?!?

I have a very cute boy kitty. Remind me to keep him hidden when you come to visit.

[Finger Monkey]

You may.

[Allegra]

Hey, are you in Iraq now?

Yep.

Home, sweet home. ;-)

[MamaTexan]

"Bertha's getting kinky! "

[Allegra]

Lick,

Sandpaper lick?

Kitty exfoliation?

(My boy kitty likes to lick faces.)

[Finger Monkey]

Seriesly,

This is thag:

Bertha likes to lick him.

That's all.

[teenyelliott]

What about words?

[Dashing Dasher]

I was thinking more like...

Bobby Hull - in his beast days...