Gay Wrestling And Rioting Rednecks: We're Going Out On A Limb And Guessing Sacha Baron Cohen Is Involved
Just one day after an Israeli political blogger's account of being ambushed in Jerusalem by Sacha Baron Cohen's voguing/strudel-loving alter ego was devoured by the Bruno-obsessed internets, comes news of strange events going down at a fair grounds in Little Rock that would appear to have the swarthy British prankster's riot-inciting fingerprints all over it. Arriving for what was billed on posters (pictured above) as "Blue Collar Brawlin': Hot Chicks, Cold Beer, Hardcore Fights," local cage-match fans instead got a generous helping of a different kind of man-on-man action:
Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named "Straight Dave" would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.
The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss [...]
An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600's reaction as the two men "went right up to the line" of the city's morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.
The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. "It set the crowd off lobbing beers," Holland said. "They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually."
Holland said it took officers about 45 minutes to clear the convention center, as the two actors sprinted away through a specially set-aside tunnel.
While the comedian's camp refuses to acknowledge or deny having any part in the stunt, there's no questioning it bears all the hallmarks of an SBC production: outraged rednecks hurling objects, naked men wrestling, and an overwhelming preoccupation with the physiological specifics of gay sex. Still, it may be us, not cheap-beer-and-violence-loving Arkansans, who are ultimately being duped by what may very well be a decoy prank, perhaps there to keep us preoccupied while Cohen infiltrates the Fallujah frontlines to outfit insurgents with colorful components from American Apparel.
