Florida Legislator Wants to Bring Back Dwarf-Tossing

[The Straight Story]

Florida Legislator Wants to Bring Back Dwarf-Tossing

State Representative Ritch Workman of Florida (R-Melbourne) is looking out for the little people, he says, by seeking to overturn a law that bans dwarf tossing in bars.

The chucking of dwarfs was big in Florida in the 1980s, after carnival worker David Wilson introduced the phenomenon from Australia and allowed patrons to throw him around barrooms. (Wilson had a serious drinking problem too, and later died of alcohol poisoning).

The state legislature outlawed dwarf tossing in 1989. For Workman, this restriction needs to go. It’s not about subjecting little people to humiliation, he insists. He said that personally he finds dwarf tossing to be “repulsive and stupid,” but that it is more important to create job opportunities, and get “Big Brother government” out of the way.

“All that does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs they would be happy to get,” Workman said. “In this economy, or any economy, why would we want to prevent people from getting gainful employment?”

http://www.allgov.com/Unusual_News/ViewNews/Florida_Legislator_Wants_to_Bring_Back_Dwarf_Tossing_111008

[Gman]

1. What?

This is the GOP's idea of job creation??

[quaker bill]

2. Apparenlty it is.

They don't raise them too smart over there.

[Capitalocracy]

3. For those who think this is an issue of "freedom"...

if a dwarf wants to get tossed, let him get tossed, but when you start paying for it, if it's the only job they can get, that's exploitation and no longer encompassed in the realm of freedom to do what they want.

[RKP5637]

4. Another fine example of how F'ed up this place is. n/t

[Ship of Fools]

5. No wonder I grind my teeth day and night. I'm having more and more

difficulty identifying satire with reality. Somebody beam me up, please!!!