I’m not a tattoo artist, but I can understand that just like with any other job, being a tattoo artist has its fair share of idiotic customers, customers who fit perfectly into comedian Larry David’s analysis that the customer is not always right and that more often than not, the customer is an asshole.
In short, take the worst customer relations nightmare that you’ve had at your place of work (if you happen to work with customers) and hopefully you still won’t even have come as close to what went down in Monterey, California last July.
Nathan Augustine, 36, of Pacific Grove, California, is to be sentenced to 7 years in prison on March 12th after pleading no contest to two charges of arson. It all started when Augustine entered Creative Visions tattoo in Monterey and asked for a:
tattoo of a swastika and an image of Obama overlaid with crosshairs…
The artists at Creative Visions all turned Augustine down and wouldn’t tattoo him. Augustine later returned to throw a Molotov cocktail at the Creative Visions shop.
Wow. That’s some crazy shit. But I do have to say, high-fives and much respect to the staff at Creative Visions for sticking their ground. What’s more, Nathan Augustine received his second arson charge for throwing a Molotov cocktail at a local restaurant. Apparently they wouldn’t serve crazy redneck assholes. But that’s just what I heard.
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February 10th, 2010 at 12:43 am
Wow! This is a crazy story. I have had to deal with crazy customers at my job, but I can only imagine having to deal with something like this. I give all the artists major props for not agreeing to do the tattoo, I can only imagine the customer’s immediate reaction to being turned down by everyone. Some people ask for some interesting tattoos I’m sure, but that would definitely be something that would be hard for artists to do I would imagine.
July 8th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
well, I’m sure they do those tattoos in prison.