‘Asylum’ Removed From Fair’s Haunted House
From Times Wire Reports
Bowing to complaints from mental health workers and patients, fairgrounds officials have removed the “insane asylum” portion of the Scream Zone haunted house.
Del Mar Fairgrounds spokesman Steve Fiebing said he received about two dozen phone calls and e-mails from people who said the psychotic patient character in the annual Halloween display was demeaning and offensive.
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