Canada's Pillow-Fight League Drawing Growing Crowds

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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's College Street bar district has seen its share of late-night fights, but a recent scrap was a bit out of the ordinary, as a financial journalist in a '50s housewife get-up tried to wallop the daylights out of a 35-year-old part-time waitress -- using a pillow.

The crowd of nearly 500 did little to interfere, as they had paid to be there.

Welcome to the Pillow Fight League, which has been drawing growing crowds in Toronto since it formed early last year, and is now set to export its campy fun to New York City.

The league is the brainchild of 38-year-old Stacey Case, a T-shirt printer and musician who came up with the idea that people would pay to see young women in costumes beat the tar out of each other with pillows -- and that women would volunteer to whap each other in front of a crowd.

The seeds of the idea came from a New Year's Eve show Case's band played in a Toronto bar just over a year ago. As a local burlesque troupe entertained the crowd by staging a mock pillow fight, they were shocked when women from the audience came forward looking to join the battle.

"It was really, really fun, and really funny that they were actually fighting for real. I woke up the next day, and I was like, "Oh my God, that was awesome," he said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070116/lf_nm/pillowfights_dc

[matcom]

1. C'mon DU Canuks!

you gots some 'splainin to do :D

[matcom]

2. .

it's a PILLOW-FIGHTING LEAGUE PEOPLE! :D

[underpants]

3. This article breaks both of the first two rules of Pillow Fighting League

SEE I told you we can't trust those Cannucks

[matcom]

4. what is the second rule of Pillow Fighting League?

:rofl:

[rockymountaindem]

5. I live 5 minutes from there and I've yet to hear of this

:wtf:

[SteppingRazor]

6. This thread is useless without images n/t

[matcom]

7. click the link for pics

[Omphaloskepsis]

8. Pics..

http://www.beer.com/pfl/pfl_fighters.html