Buffalo Bars Offering Free Boob Job To Contestant Who Collects Most Mardi Gras Beads

A group of Buffalo bars is offering free breast augmentation surgery to whomever collects the most beads during Mardi Gras celebrations this year.

The winner of the "Boobs For Beads" promotion-- technically open to men and women, although ladies get in free-- will receive the free boob job from Dr. Lakshmanan Rajendran, and can opt instead for a tummy tuck, nose job or any other cosmetic surgery similarly priced to the breasts procedure.

"I wanted an attention grabber," Sean Coughlin, manager of Bayou nightclub, and organizer of the event, told The Buffalo News Monday, adding, "As bad as the promotion sounds, I don't want it executed in a tacky way." (How could a free boob job contest possibly be executed in a tacky way?).

The contest has drawn criticism from those who say the schtick reinforces poor body image in women.

Sharon Mitchell, director of counseling services for the University at Buffalo, told The News,"I think the overall message is here's a shortcut to fixing something that’s wrong with you -- which may or may not be wrong.""

Although some women on the event's Facebook wall have commented, "Oh it's onnnnn!!!!" and "Bigger is better," at least one woman wrote she'd rather give the money to charity than win a free boob job.

Comments

[Joyce Tesar]

03:29 PM on 02/28/2012

One more tavcky thing to come out of Buffalo.
I'm from Buffalo, so I know.

[Joyce Tesar]

03:30 PM on 02/28/2012

*tacky*

[Alan Lunn]

02:15 PM on 02/28/2012

Girls, forget the boob jobs. They are not sexy. Real is always better regardless of the r in Pi r squared.

[Ron Phillips]

05:15 PM on 02/24/2012

Sharon Mitchell? Would this be *that* Sharon Mitchell, the former porn star who had been running the AIM clinic for years? (The AIM clinic was the porn industry clinic used for HIV testing, but IIRC was shut down last year for not having the right state certification)

[jonathanzimmel]

10:22 AM on 02/24/2012

i can only imagine what some small breasted girls who really want those implants will be doing for beeds.

i have been to parties where a quick shirt lift, a shirt AND bra lift, a shirt and bra lift with picture, a kiss got a girl beeds.

then i was on spring break and the winner (girl with the most beeds) got to come back the following year. and things got real in a hurry. it got physical!

at this club men could buy beeds and women were "Earning them" if you think about it the beeds were the currency and it was prostitution.....gross

[Han Yoon]

10:19 PM on 02/23/2012

Can't someone just buy a bunch of beads at a party store and say she collected them all?

[DSevere]

07:56 PM on 02/23/2012

I'm not against plastic surgery, but, ladies, this is not the way to do it! A bad boob job is seriously not attractive. (I have edited a lot of porn footage, so have had a lot of time to focus on this issue. ;) )

If you want to get new boobs, go to a top flight board certified plastic surgeon, preferably someone you find by referral, and only go a size or two bigger than you are naturally, avoid the dreaded "car headlights" look.

[BroskyMcChugsaBrew]

06:45 PM on 02/23/2012

I'm with Thaddeus; I always thought the girls with the more ample assets were the ones who got the most beads.

[Thaddeus Jude]

10:56 AM on 02/22/2012

Wouldn't the person who collects the least need it more?

[SoulOfDespair]

12:33 PM on 02/22/2012

That's what I was wondering.

[Ray Russelburg]

08:53 AM on 02/22/2012

Can guys get penis reductions instead? mines too big! LOL

[Wolverine2]

02:37 PM on 02/24/2012

You WISHED :-)

[smlyttle]

02:59 AM on 02/22/2012

Hey, it ain't sexist unless you make it that way, they said man or woman, plus they could get a reduction and not an increase.

[stjoshy]

08:08 PM on 02/21/2012

anybody want to ship me to N.O next year?? i promise ill eat all the crawfish and beans n rice they feed me. i promise ill look at the boobies till my eyes get tired. i promise to drink all the beers! geaux saints

[czs5056]

10:12 PM on 02/22/2012

take me with you!