Rt1Rebel
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This is your future!
<a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4145004.htm" target="_blank">http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/4145004.htm</a>
"Bumfights, Vol 1" -- touted by its producers as "the fastest-selling independent video" featuring "drunks" and "crackheads" -- shows bedraggled men engaging in fistfights and acts of self-abuse, such as running headlong into steel doors and leaping off bridges.
Police say the "Bumfights" producers persuaded street people to fight for the camera in exchange for cash payments, food, liquor and hotel rooms but warned the participants not to tell authorities about the remuneration.
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09-27-2002 08:26 AM |
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SilverSpring_JuniorTerp
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People like those producers need to be shot
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09-27-2002 11:11 AM |
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I think it's disturbing, yet brilliant. Noone forced anyone to participate. If MTV hadda come up with it, we'd be praising it.
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09-27-2002 11:25 AM |
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Yes, but you're exploiting homeless people, who you know will do almost anything for some food or a place to sleep -- it's sad that these guys wern't stopped sooner.
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09-27-2002 01:28 PM |
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