Bizarre Game Targets Women: It's called Hunting for Bambi and it's happening right here in the Las Vegas valley. This controversial hunt draws participants from around the world. (thanks, Cameron!!)
No, I am NOT making this up. This is an actual, honest-to-God game (I balk at using the word "sport"). Yes, hunting naked women with paintball guns is apparently the latest form of adult "entertainment".
(July 10) -- It's a new form of adult entertainment, and men are paying thousands of dollars to shoot naked women with paint ball guns. They're coming to Las Vegas to do it. This bizarre new sport has captured the attention of people around the world....
George Evanthes has never been hunting. "Originally I'm from New York. What am I going to hunt? Squirrels? Someone's cats? Someone's dogs? I don't think so," said Evanthes. Now that he's living in Las Vegas, he's finally getting his chance to put on his camouflage, grab a rifle and pull the trigger. But what's in his scope may surprise you. He's not hunting ducks or deer, he's hunting naked woman.
"I've done this three times," says Nicole, one of the three women allowing themselves to be shot at. Two other women, Gidget and Skyler, claim they have done this seven times.
Hunting for Bambi is the brainchild of Michael Burdick. Men pay anywhere from $5000 to $10,000 for the chance to come to the middle of the desert to shoot what they call "Bambis" with a paint ball gun. Burdick says men have come from as far away as Germany. The men get a video tape of their hunt to take home and show their friends....
So why do women agree to strip down and run around the desert dodging paint balls? Nicole says it's good money. "I mean it's $2,500 if you don't get hit. You try desperately not to and it's $1000 if you do," said Nicole.
George Will once said that football combines the two worst aspects of American life: violence and committee meetings. Well, this "sport", if in fact it can be called that, is even worse, combining violence and sexuality, two concepts that have no business being mentioned in the same sentence.
Of course, one could say that this is yet another example of the beauty of the free market economy at work. There appears to be no shortage of men willing to pay to partake in this travesty, and the women are there of their own free will. Agressive misogyny is apparently very good business.
