[kellyhound]

Orlando, FLA
Fire department officials say a fireworks malfunction at a Wrestlemania event in Orlando, Florida caused minor burns to about 40 people.

Fire department spokesman Greg Hoggatt said a cable holding the fireworks collapsed at the end of the show, sending hot embers from the fireworks into the crowd at the Florida Citrus Bowl Stadium last night.

He said there were burn injuries "up and down the stadium".

Officials said all the injuries were minor, although at least three people were taken to a hospital for treatment.

There was no comment from the sponsoring WWE.

Stadium officials said they had no comment.

[Worrymon]

Holy cow! that's a major mistake!

Wow, this event has been surrounded by controversy for a while. Was just reading the other day about how the advertising billboards were changed to remove the nipples (damnit, it should have been Batman who didn't have nipples, not wrestlers!)

Anybody who's ever seen a professional wrestler knows their bodies don't look like most folks'.

But the wrestlers featured on a massive sign in downtown Orlando look even more unusual.

They're missing nipples.

Yep. John Cena, Triple H, Randy Orton and even Big Show. All nipple-less.

It's rather unsettling.

And Ken-like.

Even more unsettling is the fact that government is partly responsible for the missing areolas on the banner that hangs on the side of the Lynx office building, facing Interstate 4, and promotes this weekend's WrestleMania.

Mayor Buddy Dyer claimed to have the, um, skinny.

"Apparently there's an ordinance that prohibits them from being displayed," he said.

"For men's nipples?" I replied, immediately becoming uncomfortable about discussing such a thing with Buddy.

He shrugged, saying, "It does seem a little overboard."

It turns out, it was.

There is, in fact, no city law that bans the display of male chests. In fact, the exact same image can be spotted -- with nipples aplenty -- on Lynx buses.

Comparing the two pictures is like playing a disturbing game of "Spot the Differences."

What happened, said a similarly uncomfortable city spokesman, Carson Chandler, was that city staffers asked the WWE and folks to create banners that weren't too provocative. And somewhere along the way, the nipples were airbrushed out before the giant sign reached Orlando.

Yes, airbrushed . . . which at least means they didn't involve hubcap-sized pasties.

(continues...)

SOurce

[kellyhound]

Originally Posted by Worrymon ↗

Holy cow! that's a major mistake!

Wow, this event has been surrounded by controversy for a while. Was just reading the other day about how the advertising billboards were changed to remove the nipples (damnit, it should have been Batman who didn't have nipples, not wrestlers!)


SOurce

lol only in America

[scarrybutkool]

the theme song was to the Undertaker, he must have been coming out and as u see there useally is fire works coming out some where, right when he begins to walk to the ring, but this one failed