From the always-amazing “weird news” section of the Toronto Sun's website comes a story on an issue that doesn’t get as much coverage as it should: dwarf tossing.

As the Sun tells it:

An Ontario strip club that was the impetus for a law against so-called dwarf-tossing is at it again. The law never passed, so Leopard’s Lounge & Broil, in Windsor, is holding another dwarf-tossing contest Saturday.

The law in question was the Dwarf Tossing Ban Act of 2003, which contained only one provision: “No person shall organize a dwarf tossing event or engage in dwarf tossing.” The maximum penalty for violating the law was to have been a $5,000 fine, six months imprisonment, or both.

Florida actually has such a law, but has lately been thinking about repealing it. (“All it does is prevent some dwarfs from getting jobs,” the legislator pushing for repeal told NPR.)

And even more recently, during the Golden Globes ceremony, actor Peter Dinklage used part of his acceptance speech to call attention to the case of Martin Henderson, a British little person who was injured after some dwarf tossing (in this case, involuntary) went awry.

The event at Leopard’s Lounge & Broil is evidently pretty much exactly what it sounds like. They hire a little person, dress him up in a Christmas elf costume, and then drunk customers pick him up and toss him onto a mattress on the floor. It’s not really clear how this is supposed to complement the club’s routine stripping business, but presumably on the venn diagram of life there’s at least some overlap between people who are interested in visiting a strip club in Windsor and people that would want to lift and throw a little man.

Maybe these things are like the chocolate and peanut butter of the sleazy-entertainment world: great individually, but better together. My god, what if we’re all missing out?

The toss happens tonight at 8, according to the club’s Facebook page.

Blog image via the Leopard's Lounge & Broil Facebook page.