Bad News for the Batman Cosplayers at the Nightclub Sex Party

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Australian police shot a man dressed as the Joker and a woman dressed as Harley Quinn late Saturday night after being called to the nightclub Inflation where a costumed sex party was taking place.

While the Harley Quinn cosplayer merely sustained a non-lethal flesh wound in her leg, her partner was rushed to the Royal Melbourne Hospital where he was initially in critical condition before eventually being stabilized. According to the police, they opened fire on the couple because the man dressed as the Joker allegedly brandished a gun at them. But security for the event said they verified the gun was not real, and witnesses who were attending the “Saints & Sinner Ball” claim the man was not holding it at the time of the shooting.

“Venue staff have stated that the male victim was not holding anything in his hand,” club owner Martha Tsamis said in a Facebook post. “Rather he was in a compromising position with his female partner, which is a normal activity with the nature of this event.”

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In other news:  apparently there's a nightclub in Australia where it's necessary to dress up in all this costumery plus add greasepaint so you can go there, have sex, and then leave.  What afterparty can follow that except going back home to television to watch Men Whose Balls Were Chewed by Squirrels (e.g. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, etc.).

Tip on going near anyone painted up with greasepaint:  don't.  That stuff gets on everything.


Maybe there's something this old crank is missing about sex, nightclubs, or both.  Typically, one goes to the nightclub in the hope of a trivial but lustful dalliance and that usually doesn't happen so there's an afterparty jam in someone's basement in which some outstanding music may happen.

At least, that's the way the Rockhouse remembers it happening.  If now one goes to the nightclub apparently in the company of the one with whom one will have sex, we only have one tiny question:  what's the fucking point?  Why not just stay home where you can use a trapeze and circus animals if you like.

We also have one other question:  what happens to the all-night jam after the bars close.