Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf-tossing lands in Ontario strip club
January 29, 2012 at 4:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No Comments… Indian athletes Barkath Ali (L) and Derada More prepare for the final of the 100 meter sprint at the World Dwarf Games in Belfast July 27, 2009. The games, which attracted competitors from all over the world.Photograph by: Cathal McNaughton, Reuters
WINDSOR, Ont. â Despite repeated calls for its ban, the sport of dwarf tossing has once again landed in Canada.
Windsor, Ont., strip club Leopard’s Lounge & Broil is hosting the Saturday event, in which competitors vie to see who can throw a little person the farthest.
“There’s nothing provincially, and no bylaws here, that would prevent this from going on,” said Windsor city councillor Ron Jones, who was alerted to the upcoming event by an angry constituent.
The event is being promoted on a sign outside the club.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Windsor bar’s dwarf toss sends man, fur flying
January 29, 2012 at 4:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWINDSOR, Ont. â Hundreds cheered loudly at a Windsor strip club Saturday night, as a local dwarf dressed in a baby costume was catapulted through the air, over and over again.
Both locals and out-of-towners took part in the dwarf-tossing competition at Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, a bar in Windsor’s west end. This was the second time in a decade the club hosted the event that has created international hype and hundreds signed up to participate.
The dwarf, a Windsor resident whose stage name is Tripod, refused an interview and was not interested in disclosing any details of his life.
In pairs, participants took hold of a harness that was attached to the dwarf and threw him as far as they could. The club was packed to capacity and the boisterous crowd laughed, clapped, and applauded while the four-foot, eight-inch man was chucked across the stage. Five air mattresses were laid out to ensure a safe landing for Tripod.
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A 32-year-old stripper, who only wanted to be referred to by her stage-name, Kahlua, said she was excited about the event and said it was similar to her job.
Detroit Strip Clubs: No cost to toss
January 29, 2012 at 4:48 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsBoth locals and out-of-towners took part in the dwarf tossing competition at Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, a strip club in Windsor’s west end. This was the second time in a decade the club hosted the event that has created international hype. Hundreds signed up to participate.
“We look for different forms of entertainment that will get the interest of our customers and to make things different,” said Leopard’s general manager Barry Maroon. “There’s no harm or foul here. This is a business guy that’s set up his own little business.”
A poster advertising a dwarf toss is pictured in the men’s washroom at Leopard’s Lounge and Broil, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012. (DAX MELMER/The Windsor Star)
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A 32-year-old stripper, who only wanted to be referred to by her stage name, Kahlua, said she was excited about the event and said it was similar to her job.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Heads Up: The Leisure Society
January 28, 2012 at 10:00 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWhat are we talking about?A starry new West End production of François Archambault’s satire, a dark comedy in which a yuppie dinner party spirals out of control.
Elevator Pitch
A supermodel comes to tea ….
Prime Movers
Actor and director Matthew “Harry” Burton takes the latter job for this; a friend and somewhat of a protégé of Harold Pinter’s, he had a debut directorial hit with the playwright’s The Dumb Waiter, also at the Trafalgar Studios.
The Stars
The big celebrity news is that it will star supermodel Agyness Deyn. The chisel-boned Brit will be making her stage debut, although she has acted on screen as a strong-willed stripper in the movie Pusher, soon to be released. She’s joined by Ed Stoppard, making a return to theatre after stints in TV, including Upstairs Downstairs.
Detroit Adult Entertainment: Mexico really is a lot safer place than people think
January 28, 2012 at 4:37 pm | In Detroit adult entertainment | No CommentsThe expatriates I spoke to in the lovely beachside bars of Tulum, down the coast from Cancun, are more worried about potholes than being murdered.
In Canada, we have nine road fatalities per year per 100,000 inhabitants. Compare that number to the number of Canadians murdered in Mexico, and you have to come to the conclusion that crime in Mexico is not worth thinking about very much. That doesn’t mean you can’t find trouble. You can find trouble in Thunder Bay if you go looking for it.
Don’t go to Ciudad Juarez. Wherever you go, don’t get hammered and wander around with your wallet bulging in your back pocket. Get your hotel to call you a taxi. Don’t drive at night. Don’t bring a prostitute back to your hotel room. Don’t buy drugs. If you go out at night, stay on busy, well-lit streets.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Windsor strip club invites you to come toss a dwarf
January 28, 2012 at 3:12 pm | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWindsor strip club invites you to come toss a dwarf
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An Ontario strip club that was the impetus for a law against so-called dwarf-tossing is at it again. The law never passed, so Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, in Windsor, is holding another dwarf-tossing contest Saturday.
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The event at Leopard’s Lounge & Broil is evidently pretty much exactly what it sounds like. They hire a little person, dress him up in a Christmas elf costume, and then drunk customers pick him up and toss him onto a mattress on the floor. It’s not really clear how this is supposed to complement the club’s routine stripping business, but presumably on the venn diagram of life there’s at least some overlap between people who are interested in visiting a strip club in Windsor and people that would want to lift and throw a little man.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf-tossing lands in Ontario strip club
January 28, 2012 at 8:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDespite repeated calls for its ban, the sport of dwarf tossing has once again landed in Canada.
The Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, a strip club in Windsor, Ont., is hosting the event tonight, in which competitors vie to see who can throw a little person the farthest.
“There’s nothing provincially, and no bylaws here, that would prevent this from going on,” said Windsor city councillor Ron Jones, who was alerted to the upcoming event by an angry constituent.
The event is being promoted on a sign outside the club.
With Ontario government showing no interest in restricting or regulating the small-person toss, he sees no reason the municipality should intervene.
Jones notes that, far from being forced to participate, the human projectile in question has his own agent.
“A person has a right to make a living,” he said. “If the person being tossed was being tossed against his will, then it’s a human rights issue, and I’d be all over it.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarf tossing returns to club
January 28, 2012 at 8:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsAfter an absence of nearly a decade, and to the outrage of some, the controversial sport of dwarf tossing is making its return to Windsor tonight.
“By throwing little people through the air for money, the event objectifies and degrades an entire class as lesser people,” said Windsor’s Jennie Berkeley.
The competition at Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, a west-side strip club, is an “offence against human dignity and decency,” she said.
WIN00729265_1_1 Berkeley protested to her ward city councillor after seeing a sign outside the Wyandotte Street business promoting this weekend’s event, but Ron Jones said there’s little the municipality can do.
“There’s nothing provincially, and no bylaws here, that would prevent this from going on,” said Jones.
It was nearly a decade ago that former Windsor West MPP and then-deputy Liberal leader Sandra Pupatello failed to get a law passed that would have prohibited such competitions.
See the full article from “Windsor Star”
Detroit Strip Clubs: Windsor bar hosts dwarf-tossing event
January 28, 2012 at 8:24 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsDespite repeated calls for its ban, dwarf tossing has once again landed in Canada.
Windsor strip club Leopard’s Lounge & Broil is hosting the Saturday event, in which competitors vie to see who can throw a little person the farthest.
“There’s nothing provincially, and no bylaws here, that would prevent this from going on,” said Windsor city councillor Ron Jones, who was alerted to the upcoming event by an angry constituent.
The event is being promoted on a sign outside the club.
With Ontario government showing no interest in restricting or regulating the small-person toss, he sees no reason why the municipality should intervene.
Jones notes that, far from being forced to participate, the human projectile in question has his own agent.
“A person has a right to make a living,” he said.
Detroit Strip Clubs: Dwarfs tossed among naked dancers at strip bar
January 28, 2012 at 1:36 am | In Detroit strip clubs | No CommentsWEEKS after the novelty ’sport’ gained international attention at the Golden Globe Awards, a strip bar has dawn international condemnation over plans to host a dwarf tossing competition.
Customers at Leopard’s Lounge and Broil in Ontario, Canada can register for the chance to literally throw a little person.
Jamie Danforth of Windsor is the father in a family of four little people and called it “ignorance at its highest level.”
“It is insane that in today’s society we still have this going on. I don’t need my daughters thinking this is the type of thing they have to be subjected to,” he wrote in an email to CBC News. “We wouldn’t throw the elderly or people in wheelchairs.”
Windsor resident Jennie Berkley called city councillors Ron Jones and Alan Halberstadt to complain that the event was “degrading” and “ridiculous” and should be stopped.
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