By Melody Flesher

Monroe

To the Editor: 

Another great Green County Fair has ended, and once again, that fair board has done an excellent job in organizing a massive event! I have attended every year with my four grand children a memory that will always be a great one.

However, I do feel that a huge and extremely offensive “act” in one portion of the CC Bulls and Barrels should have been excluded from their program. This “act” was also in last year’s routine and should have been removed.  

I found- as did many others- horror, not humor watching “Boom-Boom” the clown line up and shoot the young boys, one at a time, killing everyone of them as part of a “common day act.”

Not only was the killing so “not funny” and inappropriate, but that was followed by the clown and his crew disrespectfully picking up the “dead” boys and tossing them in a heap. 

It was very difficult and disturbing to watch! In these times of school and mass shootings and the Alec Baldwin “movie mishap” this was not entertainment. 

On Saturday, I read the Monroe Times my heart dropped again when I saw the photo coverage of the Bulls and Barrels and of all the great pictures that could have been selected, the “shooting of the boys” was one of three published! 

Times have changed, and what was “acceptable humor” in the past can now be viewed as wrong. This “act” distracted from a really great rodeo.