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Tattoos are more mainstream now then they ever have been.
A 2006 report by the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology said that 24% of Americans between 18 and 50 have a tattoo. That only means there are more and more strange happenings in tattoo-land.
Imagine being a thief - a not very bright one - and forgetting to cover up your very distinct tattoo before robbing someone. Investigators say a white male wearing a camouflage baseball cap and camouflage pants went into Mrs. T’s Country Store in Castleton, Vermont on Sunday, August 24th and pointed a gun at the clerk and made off with some money.
But it keeps getting more bizarre.
Police say the suspect had a four lettered tattoo on his right forearm. The clerk said the first three letters were C M M and the letters were all gothic style. Shame on you if you know somebody this stupid.
In other “tattoo identification” news, police in Spain are asking the public’s help in identifying the body of a man from his strange tattoo. The tattoo is on the right arm of the body and consists of a text written in Spanish copperplate lettering. The body was found naked and is of a muscular man. He….ahem….also shaved his legs.
And in case you have a really unique and special tattoo, here’s a new way of paying the rent. A man has sold his back tattoo to a collector and has agreed to appear three times a year to display the tattoo.
Yep, ol’ Tim Steiner struck a $217,789 deal that states the gallery can display the tattoo of the Virgin Mary — still on his back — three times a year. The gallery also has the option of reselling the tattoo, which took over 35 hours to create. And yuck….they can also can remove it from his skin when he dies.
Another odd factoid on this story is the Tattoo Artist, Wim Delvoye (a Belgian conceptual artist), that did the Virgin Mary on Tim’s back has been tattooing PIGS since 1990.
He’s even got a wikipedia entry, Click Here.
Makes me wonder if he even got a cut of good old Tim Steiner’s deal. Doubt it since Tim probably paid the original artist to get the tattoo to begin with.
Hey Wim! I’ve got a great idea for a Sacred Heart full back tattoo for myself if you ever get tired of doing the pigs … now what did I do with the number to that Gallery?
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