But still no balanced budget? No cure for cancer? Largest prison population in the world? I'm shocked.Aaron Key wasn't sure he wanted a tattoo on his neck. Especially one of a giant squid smoking a joint.
But the guys running Squid's Smoke Shop in Portland, Ore., convinced him: It would be a perfect way to promote their store.
They would even pay him and a friend 0 apiece if they agreed to turn their bodies into walking billboards.
Key, who is mentally disabled, was swayed.
He and his friend, Marquis Glover, liked Squid's. It was their hangout. The 19-year-olds spent many afternoons there playing Xbox and chatting with the owner, "Squid," and the store clerks.
So they took the money and got the ink etched on their necks, tentacles creeping down to their collarbones.
It would be months before the young men learned the whole thing was a setup. The guys running Squid's were actually undercover ATF agents conducting a sting to get guns away from criminals and drugs off the street.
The tattoos had been sponsored by the U.S. government; advertisements for a fake storefront.
The teens found out as they were arrested and booked into jail.
But this isn't Joe Friday's squad. And "Obama" has destroyed Mayberry. OBAMA!!!!
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/watchd ... 46461.html
"Heros" "First Responders" "Support the Troops".New photos provide a better look at the damage ATF agents did to a building they rented for a sting in Portland, Ore.
ATF agents cut a hole in the walls and left trash strewn about in several rooms in a building they rented , according to the photos obtained by a television station in Portland .
KATU interviewed leasing agent Jackie Greenfield, who said she found a hole cut in the wall and trash on the floors of several rooms, according to report posted to their website.
The station was following up on a Journal Sentinel investigation that found the ATF used rogue tactics at storefront stings nationwide.
The investigation found ATF used mentally disabled people to promote their operations and turned around and charged them; set up operations near schools and churches; paid sky-high prices that allowed people to buy guns from stores and sell them to agents; and drew in juveniles by allowing them to play video games, allowing them to smoke marijuana and providing alcohol.
In Portland, the ATF's sting storefront was known as "Squid's Smoke Shop."
