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Ares[K!]
04-14-2003, 12:17 PM
Pro Wrestlers for Government Office
Masked Wrestler Wins Japan Assembly Seat (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2558193)
Mainichi Interactive - Masked Wrestler Wins Seat (http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20030414p2a00m0fp006000c.html)

"There is no law specifically forbidding it," one Iwate prefectural official was quoted by Nikkan Sports as saying. "But now that he has won, we must look into the issue."

Anyway, I thought Japan had this thing where they try to keep the weirdo's of their country outta the world view :shrug:

carrot red
04-14-2003, 04:53 PM
Now they have their very own Zorro Ventura.

Ich
04-14-2003, 07:40 PM
This brings to mind Jesse "The Mind" Ventura.

Gerudo
04-15-2003, 09:01 PM
Jesse "The Body" Ventura... how many names did he go by?

pretty funny nonetheless... (the article)