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Is Kissing The Next 'Blood Sport' That Needs Regulating?
Good paying jobs are hard to come by, the state's unemployment rate is flirting with ten percent and yet some of the Lilliputian bureaucrats who run Missouri are still trying to micro-manage away even the tiniest business opportunities.
Specifically, the Missouri Office of Athletics (MOA) is attempting to cut short a local business' attempt to bring midget wrestling to the area.
The Pink Galleon in the Town Plaza booked the Extreme Midget Wrestling Federation to perform at the bar tomorrow night. However, the MOA claims these pint-sized performers are athletes and under their agency's purview like boxing, mixed martial arts and professional wrestling.
This is a wee bit of a problem for the management at the Pink Galleon.
If the bar can't obtain a license from the MOA in short order, the event will be cut-off at the knees.
Locals will not only be deprived of wholesome peewee performers, the wrestlers themselves will be short-changed a paycheck, a paycheck they were almost certainly counting on.
All thanks to some busybody based out of Jeff City who apparently doesn't know squat when it comes to differentiating between an athletic and an entertainment event.
According to the story on this website, the MOA regulates "contact and blood sports, where injuries and the exchange of blood occurs."
Not to belittle the MOA, but couldn't that definition potentially cover almost everything?
Even kissing can draw blood, if it goes horribly awry and one of the participants happens to be wearing braces. Does the MOA consider kissing a "blood sport"? Shall I make sure I get a license from the MOA the next time I smooch with my wife -- just in case?
I think the management at the Pink Galleon should tell the MOA to take their license and their apparent Napoleon complex and go back to Jeff City. We don't need them meddling in the hardscrabble economy of Southeast Missouri.
Then on Thursday, go ahead and have a cover charge at the Pink Galleon. Perhaps, a bunch of unemployed extreme midgets will just happen to show up, drink a little too much and start brawling on the stage.
Nothing wrong with a bar brawl. They sometimes just happen.
And you don't need a license from the MOA for that.
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