Posted on 10/24/2014 11:20:16 AM PDT by massmike
Peregrine Honig says she just wanted to help celebrate the hometown team when she designed Lucky Royals boyshorts.
The panties, with “Take the Crown” and “KC” across the bottom, were set to be sold in Honig’s Birdies Panties shop Tuesday. But Homeland Security agents visited the Crossroads store and confiscated the few dozen pairs of underwear, printed in Kansas City by Lindquist Press.
“They came in and there were two guys” Honig said. “I asked one of them what size he needed and he showed me a badge and took me outside. They told me they were from Homeland Security and we were violating copyright laws.”
She thought that since the underwear featured her hand-drawn design that she was safe. But the officers explained that by connecting the “K” and the “C,” she infringed on major league baseball copyright. (The officials involved could not be immediately reached for comment.)
They placed the underwear in an official Homeland Security bag and had Honig sign a statement saying she wouldn’t use the logo.
“We just thought it was something funny we could do,” Honig says of the panties. “But it was so scary.”
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
Homeland Security has jurisdiction over baseball logos?
Glad to see our Homeland Security guys are focusing on the really important things.
No, they have control over womens panties
Is this a joke?
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Sadly no - their mission has been perverted so to speak.
Why not? They have a lot of free time since they are not doing anything to protect the country.
Maybe they’re Giants fans......
Ignore the policemen being attacked with an axe by an Islamof**k in NYC. Those panties are the real national security threat. Praise be Obama, blessed be his name.
Did they have a court order to seize merchandise or is this like the RIAA raids at flea markets where flak jacketed goons with not confiscation authority take vendors’ merchandise?
The new Gestapo
Obama’s payback to Hollywood for their support in 2006 (Grammy and what not) and beyond.
Turns out their most important mission is a panty raid.
Violating copyrights is serious, it’s like a capital crime! heh
Big Media Meets Law Enforcement at White House; Biden Announces Focus on Intellectual Property Theft
BroadbandandBreakfast ^ | December 16th, 2009 | Andrew Feinberg and Eli Evans
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409611/posts
The U.S. is committed to an inter-agency process for combating piracy of American intellectual property, Vice President Joseph Biden said Tuesday during a press availability with top law enforcement officials.
Appearing at the White House complex with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano...
Homeland security. Creepy nazi name. The manpower of the USA and twice the budget. Created for 9/11. Now used for us. Thanks Bush. Now it’s utterly out of control.
That’s manpower of the usmc...
Well if they just had been bras, the K and C would not have touched!
Thank God! DHS has saved us from KC Royals’ underwear! In so doing, they have probably stopped Islamic underwear bomber baseball fans.
I would have thought that tort court was the appropriate enforcement venue.
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