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From: judith@proper.UUCP (Judith Abrahms)
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Subject: Re: Dwarf-Tossing Condemned
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 05:42:27 EDT
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From The Realist (ed. Paul Krassner), San Francisco, CA, Sept.-Oct. 1985:

   Twice a week at a Canadian hotel this summer, Little Brutus, a dwarf wearing
red knee and elbow pads, a collar brace and a yellow hockey helmet, was tossed
through the air by competitors, landing on special air mattresses.  On opening
night, the top prize of $75 went to a longshoreman who tossed him 11 feet, 4
inches.
   There was angry reaction from the local branch of the Little People of
Canada, who labeled the event "barbaric and insulting."  Replied Little Brutus,
who earned $200:  "Everybody's got a way to earn a buck.  Some people shine
shoes, some sell Kool-Aid.  I do this.  It's no big deal."

[Excerpted without permission.]


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