Creepy creepy CREEPY!!!!
It looks like I have to exonerate mokatz for his comments on my post regarding the rebranding of the Sci Fi Network. Unknown to me at the time, this past weekend was the annual furry convention in Pittsburgh.
Normally, I would refrain from commenting on such a gathering, particularly due to our... distressing... past encounters with furries IRL. But this is JUST TOO GOOD.
Apparently the reason that Pittsburgh is the spiritual home of this movement is because they even have their state legislators in on the action. 40-year-old Alan Berlin, a staffer to Senator Jane Orie, was arrested for propositioning a 15-year-old boy, suggesting that they dress up in animal costumes and have sex in his back yard, while the child's parents were asleep inside.
He's in prison on $250,000 bail.
Also making the news regarding the event was the fact that the Mets baseball team was housed in the same hotel as the gathering the night before a big game with the Pittsburgh Pirates. They blamed their performance on getting a miserable night's sleep thanks to being "freaked out" by their surroundings, and one of their pitchers being awoken in the middle of the night by "a couple of badgers going at it in the hallway." You just can't make this shit up...
So my apologies go to mokatz, whom I obliquely accused of being a little bit deviant for bringing up the topic -- and whose office is about a block away from Ground Zero for this event. And my sympathies to the other Pittsburghers who e-mailed me about their weekend (and thanks for the link to the story above).
I recommend that you send a stuffed pedobear to your state congressmen to express your thanks for their outpouring of support and involvement in this fine subculture, in your state. ;)
Normally, I would refrain from commenting on such a gathering, particularly due to our... distressing... past encounters with furries IRL. But this is JUST TOO GOOD.
Apparently the reason that Pittsburgh is the spiritual home of this movement is because they even have their state legislators in on the action. 40-year-old Alan Berlin, a staffer to Senator Jane Orie, was arrested for propositioning a 15-year-old boy, suggesting that they dress up in animal costumes and have sex in his back yard, while the child's parents were asleep inside.
He's in prison on $250,000 bail.
Also making the news regarding the event was the fact that the Mets baseball team was housed in the same hotel as the gathering the night before a big game with the Pittsburgh Pirates. They blamed their performance on getting a miserable night's sleep thanks to being "freaked out" by their surroundings, and one of their pitchers being awoken in the middle of the night by "a couple of badgers going at it in the hallway." You just can't make this shit up...
So my apologies go to mokatz, whom I obliquely accused of being a little bit deviant for bringing up the topic -- and whose office is about a block away from Ground Zero for this event. And my sympathies to the other Pittsburghers who e-mailed me about their weekend (and thanks for the link to the story above).
I recommend that you send a stuffed pedobear to your state congressmen to express your thanks for their outpouring of support and involvement in this fine subculture, in your state. ;)