For safety at future conventions there should be one of these weirdos on every floor of the building dressed as a canary.

Brilliant idea, though technically they would be a 'feathery', not a 'furry'. I'd expect they'd have their own conventions.

Downies?

Yikes, that one's got its own host of issues.

A veritable syndrome of issues, one might say.

A mosaic even.

I was going to trisomy puns of my own, but you all beat me to it.

I thought the extreme hatred against furries was mostly just a meme without any teeth but holy fucking shit who would actually try and gas people for dressing up like animals? Even though I can vaguely relate to the gut reaction of furry fandom being weird and creepy I couldn't imagine even considering doing something like this.

Rule 34 would be my guess. Someone wanted to film it for the Furry/Chlorine gas fetishists out there.

Yeah they exist as the whipping boys for internet forums, mainly because they dress up like goofs and draw weird inflation porn and are mostly and internet phenomenon themselves (although I have seen some 90's zine looking comics that I assume were spread at normal comic conventions).

But the hate is like you said,a meme, the only time I've seen it as earnest anger is when furries start usinging a service that other people have been using (deviant art / 4chan)

This event is just strange, I'm thinking whoever did this would've done the same thing to a coin collector convention.

If only it was a gun convention.

The only thing that can stop a bad man with a cannister of chlorine gas is a good man with a cannister of chlorine gas.

In a wolf suit.

The only thing that can stop the big bad wolf is the big good wolf.

I could go on like this all night.

There's always some deranged Freddy out there who takes everything the Internet produces at face value.

It's the only thing keeping Abe Vigoda alive.

"Yeah they exist as the whipping boys for internet forums"

Easy pickings for "horrors of the internet" posts for being a fringe perversion group. Apparently it's not even a hypersexualized subculture though - it's just a bunch of people dressing up in animal costumes and no more overly sexualized than your average comicon or Midwest PTA meetings. Just as much illicit and bizarre sex acts happens there or anywhere, and really it's ridiculous pretending to be concerned about it.

Admittedly I did think lesser of that culture in the past. Not anymore. Now to me, they're just people doing their own thing, so why bother them?

Furry fandom predates the internet by a few years and was an established part of "geek culture" by the time the internet went mainstream. Hell, i think 20/20 did a story on them in the late 80s.

Furry bashing has probably been around just as long, because if there's one thing geeks love, it's making fun of anyone slightly more or less geeky than themselves.

Been around since at least the '60s

Monty Phyton - mouse people

I was about to suggest Maintenance fouled up by spilling powdered chlorine in the stairwell when servicing their pool. But I didn't see any indication that this hotel has a pool at all.

The mystery deepens.

Also not gas as news sources reported. Instead it was powder spilled. An important distinction because it means everyone dying (gas) vs a few people close to the powder spill having respiratory issues. But that's the quality of news reporting these days.

You can't spell journalist with "no, just liar"

People still haven't figured out that fursuiters are a rather small subset of furries as a whole, I see.

You some kina' furry lova', boy?

I am shocked! Thousands of furries at a convention... There are thousands of them, nevermind in one place?

The thought of it does give one paws.

But someone was infurryated enough to cause harm to others. Why?

Maybe someone was cut off on the way over

Russian Furry Road Rage Fight

It wasn't gas after all, the press was just crying wolf.

I blame Fox News.

I blame Muslims.

Everyone's got their own proclivities on the side.

PETA's gonna have a field day.

I dunno, PETA seems like it would hate furries. For one, I'm sure at every large convention like this there is at least one guy who makes his costume out of real animal skin for "authenticity". Then there's the whole being sexually attracted to animals thing, they probably see the furry thing as "normalizing the sexual abuse of animals" the same way other culture warriors see video games and BDSM porn as "normalizing the sexual abuse of women".

I used to read Albedo and the Dreamery way back when (well and Cerebus and Neil the Horse) and I just enjoyed the comics for comics.
Then I found out about furrys.
Not my cup of tea and I don't consider myself "furry" no matter how many times I try and get my girl to wear cat ears.
That's different.
These fursuit wearing yiffers.. oog
(as in oog creepy)
For me reading stuff like Albedo was "just more science fiction - but the characters are animals" Furries look at it as this weird sexualized thing.

"My geeky comics are fine, but those other geeks? They're geeking WRONG!"

It is difficult to imagine why anybody wants to dress up as an anthropomorphic animal and fuck. Now, fucking an anthropomorphic animal, that sounds much more fun.

So that's what The Island of Dr. Moreau was really about!

No, that was the porn version, The Island of Dr. More O.

I blame Zeus.

I don't really consider someone a furry unless they dress up. Maybe if they drew the stuff and write fanfiction and have a "fursona" but don't dress up I'd consider the line crossed but reading a comic about politics or something that just happens to have talking squirrels as the main characters is not being a furry. Hell, there are plenty of people that have had very unsavoury thoughts about Rouge the Bat or Krystal the Fox that I wouldn't consider a furry based solely on that alone.

This is terrible. A trap, neuter, release program would be much more humane.

*drops his 10 foot pole and runs*

Even if it's a sexual thing for a furry (and I don't think it's nearly all of the time) it's not that wierd. I have a few fetiches that is far more out there.

Gassing people though. That is pure and genuine fucked up.

The chlorine gas and whatnot is heinous and evil, yeah.

The sexual thing: Furries make me feel a little bit like strangers who do BDSM public humiliation scenes (e.g., dressing them up as a pony and whipping them down a public street) do: like their need for an audience makes me a participant in their sex without consent on my part. (FUCK NO I AM NOT EQUATING THIS TO RAPE.)

Am I a total asshole for feeling this way?

It's kind of like a "in the privacy of your own home" thing. I get that. Mixed feelings in a "slippery slope" fashion though

In regards to slippery slope, a fetish is very, very different from one's orientation. I wouldn't say a gay person should do it in the privacy of their own home no more than I'd tell an African American to be black in the privacy of their own home.

No one would argue if I said one should pick their nose in private. But since this is partially sexual, yeah I see the slippery slope concern.

I wouldn't compare being gay to being furry.
I'm perfectly happy not knowing or caring about someones sexual preference.
And seriously how do you tell?
I don't really want to see someone gay or straight making out in public.
Then you have furries.
I REALLY don't want to see some fursuit wandering around the produce selection
OR yiffing at a bus stop.

That's the difference.
also the whole "born this way" augment with furries holds no water.

I'm with you on the sex in public, but why do you care what kind of outfit someone wears while they're shopping for produce?

What if shopping for produce in a fursuit IS part of their sex?

most boring sex ever?

You haven't slept with my ex.

Perhaps I misread what lilmookieesquire was implying about slippery slope.

I have seen the unvilling audience to the BDSM-thing. To furries? Never even seen one in person.

I heard this in morning news on the radio while driving and thought this would be a great post for the puns and jokes. SE delivered.

Yes I'm sure it was a gas. I guess Fox News delivered for you.

so it looks like puns and jokes are not allowed here anymore. from now on, SE IS SERIOUS BUSINESS GUYS!

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/12/morning-joe-mika-furries.html