"Reality Show Features Gun-Toting Celebs" or... "Are you scared yet?"

[GreenPartyVoter]

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) - Erik Estrada and other lesser celebrities have been sworn in as reserve officers of the city police department here, allowing them to carry badges and guns as part of a reality television series.

About 200 people packed into a Muncie City Hall auditorium for the Tuesday ceremony to swear in the former "CHiPs" star, along with La Toya Jackson, Jack Osbourne, Wee Man and Trish Stratus.

A producer coaxed the crowd into cheering loudly for the camera, and parts of the ceremony had to be repeated several times for the TV cameras.

"Roll call is at 6 o'clock," Muncie Police Chief Joe Winkle told the celebrities. "Do not be late."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061207/D8LRVH8G0.html

[jody]

1. Why should someone be scared? n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Because reality tv has gone this far?

[Bad Penny]

4. wait until we have (has been) celebrity gladiators

squaring off to the death on the sandy floor of 'Nero's Arena' in Vegas.

Only to be topped by the surviving has-been celebrity gladiators fighting famous death row inmates in a free for all king of the hill match surrounded by a moat full of crocodiles.

The moat cam brought to you by Snickers

[jelly]

3. Because Jack Osbourne plus a gun equals NOT a good thing? nt

[AlCzervik]

5. This is why we can't have nice things.