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Amusement park removes dead celebrity display
Posted by Rich | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 25-09-2009
Is discretion gone completely? Do companies not have checks and balances to make sure that such poor taste is not carried out? Just because it “seems entertaining” doesn’t mean it is appropriate.
I’m not sure where the audio for this file might be, but you can see the celebrities represented and the circumstances of their deaths portrayed. Tasteless.
“>Amusement park removes dead celebrity display
Skeletons were removed Thursday
Updated: Thursday, 24 Sep 2009, 4:00 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 24 Sep 2009, 3:59 PM EDT
CINCINNATI (AP) – An amusement park is apologizing for a Halloween display of skeletons dressed up as dead celebrities, including Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett.
The skeletons were removed from Kings Island on Thursday after criticism surfaced on the Internet and radio talk shows. Park spokesman Don Helbig says the park apologizes if it offended anyone.
The skeleton depicting Jackson wore pajama pants and a long black wig and carried a blanket-covered figure under its arm. The one dressed as Fawcett wore a blond wig and red bathing suit.
Also featured was a skeletal version of Steve McNair, the former Tennessee Titans quarterback who was killed by his mistress in July. The skeleton was holding a football helmet with a hole in the top, a skeleton in a skimpy red negligee draped across its lap.
Kings Island is located 24 miles north of Cincinnati.
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Information from: WLWT-TV,http://www.channelcincinnati.com
