Man Sues Tattoo Parlor For Mispelling (CHI-TONW)

[matcom]

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Crain’s) — Maybe Chicago really isn’t Michael Duplessis’ kind of town — or “TONW” for that matter.

Mr. Duplessis is suing a Northwest Side tattoo parlor in connection with a tattoo he received that he alleges mistakenly read “CHI-TONW” above a rendering of a John Hancock Center-like skyscraper.

The misspelled tattoo, which Mr. Duplessis received at Jade Dragon Tattoo Inc. at 5331 W. Belmont Ave., has caused the Chicago man “emotional distress from public ridicule” and “loss of self-esteem and psychological pain and suffering,” according to a complaint filed Feb. 13 in Cook County Circuit Court.

The complaint alleges that workers at the tattoo parlor “fraudulently induced” Mr. Duplessis to sign a form that waived them of any liability for work performed on the tattoo.

After Mr. Duplessis signed the release, the workers allegedly “modified” the form by writing “Chi-tonw” on it, “in an attempt to further evade liability for applying the malformed tattoo,” according to the complaint.

The complaint asks that Jade Dragon and Sam Hacker, a tattoo artist, be found negligent for “deceptive acts or practices” and compensate Mr. Duplessis for “actual damages” and legal costs.

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[underpants]

1. Mr. Duplessis

Spell check says
Depresses
Dulles's

[Richardo]

2. I'd always go to a tattoo artist named 'Hacker'

:eyes:

Sorry, bud - case dismissed. You would have been the target of humiliation and ridicule for having a lame tattoo anyway.

The John Hancock building? :rofl:

[asthmaticeog]

3. I think that's the asshole who misspelled "OZZY" on my knuckles.

[Fenris]

8. "ZOZY"!

[zappa_parappa]

4. That just doesn't seem right to me...

Because usually don't they stencil it out first, and even if they're not doing that, shouldn't the guy have noticed long before the tattoo was finished that something wasn't right?

[ghostsofgiants]

5. What I want to know is how the hell you transpose letters like that while doing a TATTOO.

I mean, even handwriting, that's pretty hard to do. It's not like typing.

Another tattoo misspelling anecdote:

There's a band here in town called Children of Eve, w~ho have a song called "Blood Red Beautiful". One day on their message board, this 15 year old girl who is obsessed with them posted asking where she could get a tattoo that very day. Now, there's only one really reputable tattoo parlor in the city, and it has a pretty long wait list, because so many people are getting tattooed there. Everyone was like "listen, that's a bad idea, you're only 15, you probably won't even like them when you're older and hell, they might be long forgotten by then" and things of that nature, in addition to telling her that Trouble Bound is the only really reputable place for tattoos in the city. About 5 hours later she came back and posted this picture:



Note the spelling on beautiful.

Lesson: If you're 15, stupid, and hasty in deciding on a tattoo, you're a moron.

[Arkansas Granny]

10. Unforntunately, I don't have a picture, but I once had a neighbor

with a misspelled tatoo on his bicep. It was a tacky looking homemade job that read: "Born too loose". I can only assume that they overdid it with the "o's".

[meegbear]

6. “fraudulently induced”??1!!?

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

7. I knew a guy who did a Chinese character incorrectly on his arm

This was a white American guy who had lived in either China or Taiwan with his father for a year or two years back.

Well, he decided to get a tattoo of a Chinese character (or characters, I forget) that he claimed spelled Gift of God on his arm.

And, of course, since none of us guys in our D&D gaming group spoke or read Chinese, we took his word for it.

However, in our endless quest to find new gamers, we found one Chinese guy, who was just out of Yale's MBA school. He and his girlfriend (also Chinese) joined the gaming group.

Well, one day, the Chinese guy notices the tattoo on the other guy's arm and asked why he has a tattoo that says, Gift God on his arm.

The (stupid) white guy tries to correct him and tell him that it says "Gift of God" - and the Chinese guy with the Yale MBA looks bemused that this white idiot is trying to correct his Chinese... but, at that point, everybody else in the group is laughing at the (stupid white) guy asking for their gifts.... It's been 8-9 years since that incident, and we still laugh about it.

[grace0418]

9. I saw an article where a Chinese guy was talking about the stupid things pro athletes

get tattooed on their bodies. He said most of them don't make any sense, or say really stupid things that the person probably didn't intend. Much like Gift God.

It's like the site called engrish.com, only the opposite. By the way, engrish.com is hysterical.

[ghostsofgiants]

12. Even non-Chinese character tattoos athletes get are usually awful.

One of my favourite things about my roommate's Sports Illustrated subscription is reading articles where athletes talk about their tattoos. They're always awful.

[ContraBass Black]

11. Tattoo and Misspelling do not belong in the same sentence.

x(

[jmowreader]

13. Every tattoo shop should have a mirror like this one...

At Chop Shop Tattoo of Hope Mills, NC (the "nom de tat" of the guy who runs it is Pork Chop, or Chop for short, hence the name) there is a full-length mirror, which faces another, larger mirror, and on the full-length mirror is stenciled, in bright red letters, the most important sentence ever written by the hand of man:

Be Sure Your Tattoo Is Spelled Correctly Before Proceeding.

[Little Wing]

14. The joke is intentional, one hopes