"Hunting for Bambi" turns out to be hoax

[ButterflyBlood]

LAS VEGAS - A promoter who offered to take men on "Hunting for Bambi" safaris in which they could hunt down naked young women with paintball guns admits that it was a hoax and now faces misdemeanor charges, the mayor said Friday.

Promoter Michael Burdick could get six months in jail and a $1,000 fine for operating without a proper business license, Mayor Oscar Goodman said.

"I'll do everything I can to see this man is punished for trying to embarrass Las Vegas," Goodman said.

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Las Vegas officials investigated, and said Burdick admitted that the safaris were just a hoax intended to promote the "Hunting for Bambi" videos that Burdick sells. The videos are marketed as depicting nude women being hunted by men who have paid for the privilege.

But the mayor said the videos actually show "actors and actresses, and there wasn't even the real shooting of paint balls."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030726/ap_on_re_us/hunting_bambi_6

[Syrinx]

1. I posted this this morning

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=43415

[Against ME]

2. Damn,

There's something to be said about having such a right, damn it.

[Syrinx]

3. I fell for it

Just because I didn't really think about. You hear so much crazy tabloid stuff you learn to ignore it.

[wellstone_democrat]

4. Texas DID have "bunny hunts!"

there was a big scandal in the 80s or 90s where women were hunted (with nets I believe) on some ranch and politicians galore had participated. When I related this "bambi" story, several colleagues related the expose done by Texas Monthly on this "sport"

So, don't feel badly for being taken in---it isn't like it wasn't going on in the US recently! so why not vegas too?

[newyawker99]

5. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=43415

I am locking this one.

NYer99
DU Moderator