MoPod Show 2.1 - Gay Comedy Podcast

I remember when Lasik surgery first emerged on the cosmetic/optometry scene. I was really close to signing up for it, but I’ve always had this thing about people sticking things in my eye. (insert your own joke here). The thought of lasers or blades or anything that could, in the unlikely event of an earthquake or sneeze attack, poke my eyes out forever was just too nightmarish for me to consider.

So it seemed that the closest I would get to laser beams was the laser light show at the cha cha palace.  I have never hesitated to bask in the glow of the light show on the dance floor. I’m not ever going to be known as “the guy who is an awesome dancer”. I fall in line somewhere between the solid gold dancers and an epileptic with good rhythm. But I do love to get myself in the middle of a great dance floor with LOTS of lights and great music. But, now it seems that my eye poking phobia has made its way to the dance floor.

Dozens of partygoers at an outdoor rave near Moscow last week have lost partial vision after a laser light show burned their retinas, Russian health officials said on Monday. Moscow city health department officials confirmed 12 cases of laser-blindness another 17 were registered at a city hospital.

Attendees at the July 5 Aquamarine Open Air Festival in Kirzhach, northeast of Moscow, began seeking medical help, complaining of eye and vision problems, health officials told Reuters. “They all have retinal burns, scarring is visible on them. Loss of vision in individual cases is as high as 80 percent, and regaining it is already impossible,”…Attendees said heavy rains forced organisers to erect massive tents for the all-night dance party, and lasers that normally illuminate upwards into the sky were instead partially refracted into the ravers’ eyes.

So there you are. Yet another reason to keep your eyes closed and pointed toward the floor at gay bars.