The clash started on a January morning when protesters attacked the cyberspace headquarters of extremist French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the popular 3-D Internet fantasy world Second Life.
Le Pen security forces responded with push guns, whimsical digital weapons that tossed bodies through the air “like rag dolls,” according to one witness. Protesters fought back with pig grenades, firing fat pink porkers that exploded in neon pink splatters. When the shooting ended, Le Pen’s headquarters lay in ruins, deserted by staff and guards.
French Politics in 3-D on Fantasy Web Site (Washington Post)
Previously ‘varked:
Yes, and Aardvark is Dutch for “EarthPig”
I disagree with the headline. An exploding aardvark will always trump an exploding pig.
The universe* was created by the Original Boom, of the Ür-Aardvark, and we exist on the wavefront of that explosion, which continues to this day.
*also sometimes referred to as a “weblog”