Abercrombie & Fitch obscenity charge dropped (Virginia Beach, VA)

[sinkingfeeling]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22993326/

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Abercrombie & Fitch Co. said Monday that authorities overreacted when they confiscated two display photos of scantily clad men and a woman from a clothing store and cited the manager on a misdemeanor obscenity charge. A city official later said the charge would be dropped.

“The marketing images in question show less skin than you see any summer day at the beach. And certainly less than the plumber working on your kitchen sink,” the company, based in New Albany, Ohio, said in a statement.

“You might see that typical vision walking down a street,” Stiles said of the photo with the men.

Virginia Beach police issued the summons Saturday after Abercrombie management did not heed warnings to remove the images from the Lynnhaven Mall store after some customers complained, police spokesman Adam Bernstein said.

Bernstein said police had charged the manager because there is no legal way to issue a summons to a corporate entity in such circumstances. If convicted, the manager faces a fine up to $2,000 and as much as a year in jail.

[Squatch]

1. Not surprising.

Lynnhaven Mall is crammed between ultra-conservative Oceana Naval Air Base and mega-super-doublesecret-conservative Regent University. I am so happy we left that town last year.

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Good.

Fucking prudish snobs.

[Dawggie]

3. About fucking time. How much did it cost to go ge the pics and disrupt business?

I'm beginning to think an evil clown in the sky is running America today.