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- Sep. 27, 1993: Beating Barney
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Sep. 27, 1993 Attack Of The Video Games
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEOPLE, Page 95
- Beating Barney
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- <p>SOPHFRONIA SCOTT GREGORY
- </p>
- <p> He loved them; they didn't love him. BARNEY, the adorable --
- to some people -- purple dinosaur, found himself in dire straits
- last week at the reopening of a K mart in Galveston, Texas,
- where the ever affable T. rex (or, rather, a performer dressed
- in a Barney suit) was assaulted and punched by four boys, ages
- 10 to 15. "The 13-year-old tried to take off his head," says
- a police officer. At the station house, phone lines were jammed
- with calls from frantic fans. "Kids were taking it hard," says
- the officer. "I had to tell them this was not the real Barney."
- A judge fined the attackers $200 each and gave them until the
- age of 17 to pay up. Better still, he should have made them
- listen to the Barney song until then.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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