{"id":24629,"date":"2011-11-30T05:38:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T11:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24629"},"modified":"2011-11-30T11:10:13","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T17:10:13","slug":"the-stench-of-revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=24629","title":{"rendered":"The Stench Of Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m of many minds about\u00a0\u00a0this story<\/a>\u00a0(the photos are at the link; it’s safe, but tasteless, for work).<\/p>\n

Rossie Brovent wants \u00a360,000 in damages from Ryan Fitzjerald.<\/p>\n

Rossie, from Dayton, Ohio, US, wanted a scene from the Narnia trilogy inked on her back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But thaaaat’s not what happened…<\/p>\n

Instead she was left with a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ms. Brovent’s ex-boyfriend had a reason…:<\/p>\n

Tattoo artist Ryan turned rogue after discovering that Rossie had cheated on him with his best friend.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thoughts:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. On the one hand – ick. \u00a0I mean – ick.<\/li>\n
  2. On the other hand, it’s only in the details that it’s worse than most tattoos, especially full-back ink. \u00a0Note to people with full-back or ful-frontal tattoos; ugh. \u00a0Ugh ugh ugh. \u00a0That means you. \u00a0 Ick. \u00a0I mean – yes, again – Ick.<\/li>\n
  3. Seriously. \u00a0Call me a child of another era – one where tattoos meant that someone had been in the military (good) or prison (not good), but I think America is going to wake up someday from its fixation with tattoos the same way people woke up from hair styles they tried back in the seventies – except they won’t be able to get a hair cut and burn a bunch of photos to eliminate the evidence. \u00a0Nothing short of third-degree burns will get you out of that.<\/li>\n
  4. Seriously, Mr. Fitzjerald – not classy.<\/li>\n
  5. And yet I’m curiously impelled to give you at least some style points.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I see an Administration ban on drunk tattooing coming up.<\/p>\n

    UPDATE\/CORRECTION: \u00a0When I wrote this, I wrote it more as a commentary on the battle of the sexes and on America’s gauche fixation with body art than as legal reporting. \u00a0I gotta confess, I also thought “reads like a hoax, and I’ll bet it’s henna”.<\/p>\n

    Which is good, since the story is…well, at least all of the names and the legal action are apparently fake, according to this story<\/a> from which, I note, all mention of the existence or permanence of the tattoo itself <\/em>is absent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’m of many minds about\u00a0\u00a0this story\u00a0(the photos are at the link; it’s safe, but tasteless, for work). Rossie Brovent wants \u00a360,000 in damages from Ryan Fitzjerald. Rossie, from Dayton, Ohio, US, wanted a scene from the Narnia trilogy inked on her back. But thaaaat’s not what happened… Instead she was left with a pile of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24632,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24629\/revisions\/24632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}