Shoot Saddam!!!!!! (yes it is on topic)
Found it at the K-Rock website(a rock radio station in NYC) but the story is originally from WCBS news radio. I included the text from the K-Rock site.
Walid should be wearing a real mask under there. Overall, I found it pretty amusing. I wouldn't pay $5, though.
Mar 26, 2003 9:52 am US/Eastern
When Fink was a boy, he loved going to Seaside Heights, N.J. and playing games on the boardwalk, especially at Lucky Leo's where the best skeeball action lived. Flash forward to today -- the War in Iraq -- and ol' Leo's is providing true red-blooded Americans with the perfect outlet -- for $5 bucks, patrons are being given the chance to shoot paintballs at a human decoy dressed as Iraqi dictator/martyr in waiting/Butcher of Baghdad Saddam Hussein. The attraction originated in 1991 and was originally called "Shoot the Geek" (which disturbs us, after all we are geeks), but during Gulf War One a few minor changes were made and a Saddam mask was added, and the game transcended entertainment and became a political statement. The Saddam doppelganger is an Arab-American from Egypt, Walid Abdou. He's more than happy to mock the Wacky Iraqi. "I hate him. I make people shoot his face because he is wrong, wrong, wrong," he tells reporters. Luckily Abdou wears a hockey helmet under his Saddam mask to prevent any serious injury.
When Fink was a boy, he loved going to Seaside Heights, N.J. and playing games on the boardwalk, especially at Lucky Leo's where the best skeeball action lived. Flash forward to today -- the War in Iraq -- and ol' Leo's is providing true red-blooded Americans with the perfect outlet -- for $5 bucks, patrons are being given the chance to shoot paintballs at a human decoy dressed as Iraqi dictator/martyr in waiting/Butcher of Baghdad Saddam Hussein. The attraction originated in 1991 and was originally called "Shoot the Geek" (which disturbs us, after all we are geeks), but during Gulf War One a few minor changes were made and a Saddam mask was added, and the game transcended entertainment and became a political statement. The Saddam doppelganger is an Arab-American from Egypt, Walid Abdou. He's more than happy to mock the Wacky Iraqi. "I hate him. I make people shoot his face because he is wrong, wrong, wrong," he tells reporters. Luckily Abdou wears a hockey helmet under his Saddam mask to prevent any serious injury.
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