Posted on 01/08/2015 12:33:10 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
A Walmart employee near Richardson north of Dallas refused to print a photo of a man holding an over-and-under shotgun in one of his engagement photos that he and his fiancée had submitted to the store for printing, just days before their wedding.
Stephanie Wehner and her fiancé Mitch Strobl had submitted the photos to Walmart’s online photo lab for printing. In one of the photos Strobl was holding his prized 12-gauge Ruger Red Label over-and-under shotgun.
Wehner is a WFAA-TV employee in Dallas. The couple told their story to the TV station earlier this week. They are due to be wed later this weekend.
It was later learned though that the employee was misinformed and the superstore had no direct policy against firearms in photos they develop and print for customers.
"She was very nice, but very matter-of-fact, like she was not going to budge or give me my photo," Wehner told WFAA-TV.
The clerk told Wehner that the photo couldn't be released because the weapon would promote a "gang culture."
The 12-gauge Ruger though is a common hunting rifle and lists for just under $1,400 on the official Ruger website. Meanwhile Strobl happens to make his living writing manuals for hunting and outdoor recreation types, which would lend itself to spending time outside with a shotgun.
Walmart’s online photo center though does have a terms of use page that says that they do not print photos that include “expressions of abuse, offensive language and/or imagery, obscenity or pornography, including but not limited to: child abuse, child pornography, depictions of minors engaged in sexual conduct or explicitly sexual situations, or any other material that could give rise to any civil or criminal liability under applicable state or federal law, or violating any laws or regulations of any governing body.”
It further states that “unlawful, harmful, threatening, harassing, defamatory, obscene, vulgar, invasive of another's privacy, hateful or otherwise unsuitable as determined by WALMART.COM” would lead to an online account being revoked.
In the photo of Strobl with his shotgun, he and Wehner are show smiling and embracing in a rustic setting.
In a statement a Walmart spokesperson told WFAA-TV that the employee had been misinformed and that the store doesn’t have an antigun policy when it comes to photos.
The couple told WFAA-TV that they are currently looking to get their photos printed elsewhere. Somehow we think they won’t have a problem finding a place to accommodate them.
Walmart sells a variety of firearms, which advertises in stores and on Walmart.com
The 12-gauge Ruger though is a common hunting rifle and lists for just under $1,400 on the official Ruger website. Meanwhile Strobl happens to make his living writing manuals for hunting and outdoor recreation types, which would lend itself to spending time outside with a shotgun.
Gang culture?
Do these people look like "unarmed teens"?
? Where do I buy one of these 12 gauge rifles?
I’m thinking law suit, as in gay (queer) wedding cake thing.
Who still prints photographs from film?
They look like a double barrel of fun.
What a cute couple. Ok since gays can sue Christian for making them a cake. I hope this couple can sue Walmart - just wishful thinking.
I see anger and "crazy" eyes.......
..the couple should have gotten a photo of the walmart employee....*smiles*
Almost no one, and there's no mention of film in the article.
I see normal, well adjusted Americans, starting out on a life together. Good lord, when did this become deviant, or something that people would not celebrate.
Since it was an online photo lab, sounds like it was prints from digital
A clerk making up stuff to suit her own ideology, no doubt, projecting he politics on top of a store policy that doesn’t exist...............
Where did you see film?
Very cute couple.
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Of course if they refused to print a gay wedding photo, they’d be sued out of existence.
And people do still have film cameras.
That’s a pretty darn wholesome picture!
Where must your head be at to find that in any way offensive?
Please don’t answer that.
I suspect that the clerk, “who told Wehner that the photo couldn’t be released because the weapon would promote a ‘gang culture,’” will be rebuked by someone higher in the organization, as the flood of protests come to Walmart’s attention. I seriously doubt that this reflects Corporate policy at Walmart.
Hey, every business has a few stupid employees.
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