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| ECJ upholds German ban - on Laser Tag? WTF? |
| 2004-10-22 |
| A key question confronted the European Union last week: Should grown men and women who get their kicks by pretending to shoot one another with toy weapons have the freedom to do so? Um...Wait a minnut, lemme think... German authorities, and now the EU's highest tribunal, think the answer to that question is no. On Oct. 14, the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice upheld a ban on the Bonn "Laserdrome", where participants simulated killing each other with lasers. The court said nothing about whether the lasers can actually inflict physical pain. Instead, it found that the game operated by the Bonn-based company, Omega Spielhallen-und-Automatenaufstellungs-GmbH, is an affront to human dignity. It's actually the horribly agglutinative nature of the German language that's the real affront... "The prohibition on the commercial exploitation of games involving the simulation of acts of violence against persons, in particular the representation of acts of homicide, corresponds to the level of protection of human dignity which the national constitution seeks to guarantee" in Germany, reads the seven-page judgment. Yeah, right. Pay no attention the the actual death and dismemberment ongoing in europe, it's the people playing a game that are the clear threat to civilization here! |
| Posted by:mojo |
| #4 If you don't let them work off their spare energy shooting each other with harmless lasers and paintballs, they are going to continue their present practice of shaving their heads and attacking dark-skinned foreigners. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-10-23 12:01:16 AM |
| #3 Assclowns. I think they need a game of paintball to teach them some manners. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-22 7:26:02 PM |
| #2 Plus it took them seven pages to say this? Oh yeah, they were writing in German. Never mind. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-10-22 7:05:43 PM |
| #1 The most appropriate word to apply here is insane. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-10-22 6:44:04 PM |