ACTION ALERT
Las Vegas Allows Outdoor Sport of Shooting Naked Women w/ Paintballs
The web site includes images of bloody and injured naked women.
(from http://www.huntingforbambi.com/)
Next to the injured women they write; "Liars, Cheaters and Whore Bags"
Photo Gallery. Every single "Bitch" got what she deserved!
Please check out the news clip available on the url below. Then write Las
Vegas authorities and voice your opinion today!
http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1356380&nav=168XGqk0
Bizarre Game Targets Women: Hunting for Bambi
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, but Channel 8 Eyewitness News reporter LuAnne Sorrell is
the only person who has interviewed the game's founder.
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.
Burdick says safety is a concern, but the women are not allowed to wear
protective gear -- only tennis shoes.
Burdick says hunters are told not to shoot the women above the chest, but
he admits not all hunters follow the rules. "The main goal is to be as
true
to nature as possible. I don't go deer hunting and see a deer with a
football helmet on so I don't want to see one on my girl either," said
Burdick.
The paint balls that come out of the guns travel at about 200
miles-per-hour. Getting hit with one stings with clothes on, and when they
hit bare flesh, they are powerful enough to draw blood.
Evanthes shot one of the women and says, "I got the one with the biggest
rack."
Gidget is the one who took the paint ball shot to the rear. She says, "It
hurt. It really hurt. I didn't think it was going to be that bad." When
asked if she cried she says,"yeah, a little bit."
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.
The men and women say this is all good, clean fun, but in Part 2 of this
special report, reporter LuAnne Sorrell speaks with a psychologist who
says
for some men playing out this sexual aggression may lead to other more
violent acts against women.
*******
Bizarre Game Targets Women: Hunting for Bambi: Part 2
"Hunting for Bambi" is the newest form of adult entertainment in Las
Vegas.
Men are paying thousands of dollars to come here and hunt naked women.
Could playing out this type of violence lead to even more serious types of
violence against women? Channel Eight Eyewitness News reporter LuAnne
Sorrell takes a look.
Michael Burdick, the founder of HuntingForBambie.com, explains the game to
three women early one Monday morning. "You have to collect four flags
throughout the course. Some are easy for you and some are not easy," said
Burdick.
The woman begin stripping down to their tennis shoes and start running to
dodge the paint balls that go buzzing by.
"We got a hit," said George Evanthes, who just shot and hit one of the
women in the behind. "It was sexy. Let's put it that way," said Evanthes.
The women who take part in this bizarre game get paid $2,500 if they
escape
unscathed. Even if a paintball hits them, they walk away with $1,000.
"As you can see this is not lethal, and it wasn't meant to hurt anybody.
Just good clean fun," said Evanthes.
Burdick says the majority of the men who pay the $5000 to $10,000 to play
the game are the submissive, quite type. "For the individual who's used to
saying 'I can't go out with the boys tonight' or the wimp of America, it's
a chance for him to come out and vent his aggression and really take
charge
and have some fun."
Marv Glovinsky is a clinical psychologist. He says Hunting for Bambi is
every man's fantasy come true. "You might think of all men as little boys
who have never grown up, so they entertain their adolescent fantasies and
they go through life being adolescents on the hunt."
But Glovinsky says this so called game that mixes violence with sexuality
can be dangerous for men who can not distinguish fantasy from reality, and
acting out the violence in this game could lead to them acting out real
violence.
"If you're blurring reality and fantasy and you can't make the distinction
and you're emotions over power your intellect or your higher mental
function, your going to get into trouble, and if you have a control
problem
to boot, that's really going to cause problems." Problems, he adds, like
beating, raping or even hunting women with a real gun.
Hunter Evanthes disagrees, "This is just a game. Get serious, get real."
But some worry it's a game, which may have consequences that go far beyond
the playing field.
******
http://www.huntingforbambi.com/
Contact Las Vegas Mayor Michael L. Montandon and City Council members with
your reaction that this is not acceptable!!!!
Simple paste the email addresses below into your email list under to: or
cc:
mayor@ci.north-las-vegas.nv.us, willr@ci.north-las-vegas.nv.us,
eliasonr@ci.north-las-vegas.nv.us, th-las-vegas.nv.us,
bucks@ci.north-las-vegas.nv.us
SAMPLE LETTER:
Subject: STOP THIS PUBLIC HATE CRIME
Dear Mayor Montandon and Council Members,
We demand an end to this outrageous example of hatred of women. Hunting
for
Bambi 'games' promote hate, revenge, and violence toward all human
females.
Michael Burdick's business Hunting for Bambi advertises that men can
"actually hunt one of our Bambi sluts and shoot her with paintballs while
we film the whole thing and tape it for your own home video." They note
that "With over 30 women ready to be chased down and shot like dogs we
guarantee a wide variety of Bambi's to choose from. Whether it is a fat
ass
cow or a perfect 10 we have an abundance of these beauties." The web site
offers free images and claims the injured women as: "Liars, Cheaters and
Whore Bags" Photo Gallery. Every single "Bitch" got what she deserved!"
This is NO sport, it is about encouraging violence to women, which is
clear
by Burdick's invitation to "come out to our ranch and shoot one of these
nagging whinny bitches where it hurts and shut her the f[...] up. Then
mount her like a "Real Man"."
This is not some frightening white supremacist, militia cult hiding in the
desert where women are abused. This is a thriving business in your city,
advertised with a two-part special on your own local news. But the news
did
not say that the price of $10,000 includes not only airfare but rape:
"Mount (not for virgins, you figure it out)." We can't imagine that even
laws as radical as Las Vegas's prostitution laws allow for this kind of
business.
Please look into this immediately and make it clear that this kind of
thing
is not what Las Vegas is about. The men who pay thousands of dollars to
come to your city to legally hunt and rape your women are not the kind of
consumers from whose money your city wishes to benefit.
We have come a long way in the struggle to stop violence and degradation
toward women. Don't let the world think that Las Vegas is on the cutting
edge of promoting it.
Please let us know what your city officials plan to do about this.
Sincerely, YOUR NAME
Thank you for helping Media Watch
Media Watch is an educational non-profit organization
PO BOX 618
Santa Cruz, CA 95061
831-423-6355
www.mediawatch.com
To unsubscribe just write remove into the subject line.
Media Watch: Challenging racism, sexism
and violence in the media through education and action!
PO Box 618
Santa Cruz, CA 95061-0618
831-423-6355
http://www.mediawatch.com