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(body-in-trunk) T-shirts seized from Town East Mall after Pleasant Grove business owners protest
Dallas Morning News ^ | 06:46 AM CST on Friday, December 18, 2009 | AVI SELK

Posted on 12/18/2009 11:16:25 AM PST by a fool in paradise

A short-sleeved squabble ended suddenly Thursday when Town East Mall security raided a kiosk and seized a stash of T-shirts that had southeast Dallas business owners up in arms.

Half an hour after the raid, a half-dozen Pleasant Grove business owners gathered at the Southeast Dallas Chamber of Commerce and celebrated a medium-sized victory.

In the center of the room, draped across the back of a chair like a pelt, was one of the vanquished T-shirts:

"Welcome to Pleasant Grove," it read – below a silkscreen image of a man tossing a body into the trunk of an old Buick.

Like everyone in the room, Pleasant Grove pawnshop owner Joy Vosburg praised the Mesquite mall's quick action.

"It's fantastic," she said. "I don't think any city should be portrayed like that."

Vosburg had first spotted the T-shirts during a Monday evening shopping trip.

"It was horrible," she recalled. "I would have bought them just to get rid of them. But I didn't want to give them money."

...it perpetuates a violent stereotype of Pleasant Grove – a blue-collar neighborhood in the heart of southeastern Dallas – that the chamber has been working overtime to abolish.

In October, it kicked off a re-branding campaign, including "GroveFest" and "Hands Across the Grove," when residents linked hands along South Buckner Boulevard.

The chamber will even move out of its old digs above the Diaper Store in a neighborhood strip mall and into the brand-new Eastfield College branch up the road...

The clerk, who said she had not known about the warning, mostly ignored the raid. She stared serenely into her till as mall staff filled a cardboard box with the contraband...

Screws said the kiosk owner could pick up the confiscated shirts later but probably would have to pay a fine...

(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dallas; mallcop; mesquite; texas
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1 posted on 12/18/2009 11:16:30 AM PST by a fool in paradise
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To: Slings and Arrows

PING

2 posted on 12/18/2009 11:17:46 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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To: a fool in paradise

These goons couldn’t care less about the US Constitution. They’re worse then murders in my mind.


3 posted on 12/18/2009 11:20:07 AM PST by DManA
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To: a fool in paradise

Lol...Let’s stick our heads in the sand and pretend it’s not bad over there...


4 posted on 12/18/2009 11:20:26 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: a fool in paradise

I smell a very large lawsuit.


5 posted on 12/18/2009 11:20:39 AM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Dallas59

+ I wouldn’t want my car to break down over there.


6 posted on 12/18/2009 11:21:23 AM PST by Dallas59 (No To O -Time is going by really really really really slow.)
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To: a fool in paradise

Did I somehow miss the repeal of the 1st amendment? Who are these nazis?


7 posted on 12/18/2009 11:22:43 AM PST by muir_redwoods (Obama: The Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers)
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To: a fool in paradise
Here is the short:

I am trying to figure out who has what do what here. I know Malls are considered private property, but the right to regulate the content of T-Shirts sold there would be subject to the contract between vendor and the Mall.

And what is thins about a fine? A fine from whom for what?

8 posted on 12/18/2009 11:23:04 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: DManA

This is not a constitutional issue as the government is not involved and it is instead a property rights issue.

However, those who demanded the shirts be removed and those who removed the shirts are Nanny State Thug Wanna Be’s.


9 posted on 12/18/2009 11:24:16 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: freedumb2003; All

*DOH*

r/short/shirt/


10 posted on 12/18/2009 11:24:16 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: a fool in paradise

Sell ‘em on the street or on the ‘Net.


11 posted on 12/18/2009 11:26:12 AM PST by Clock King (There's no way to fix D.C.)
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To: DManA; Lurker

This was in a privately owned mall. All merchants have contractual agreements with the mall specifying what they can and can’t sell, what kind of signage they can and can’t put up, and spelling out that the mall management makes the ultimate decision. Part of this is to maintain the image of the mall — different malls very deliberately craft and maintain certain demographic images, i.e. very upscale, sort of upscale, inexpensive and convenient, etc. Another huge part of it is because each merchant has contracted and paid for specific rights re limiting competing merchants, either anywhere in the mall, or in larger malls within a specified distance of the merchant. Private contracts are private contracts and the Constitution doesn’t put any limits on the terms they may contain.


12 posted on 12/18/2009 11:26:30 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: muir_redwoods
Did I somehow miss the repeal of the 1st amendment?

Did I somehow miss that the First Amendment was extended to prohibit private property owners from dictating what can be said on their property?

13 posted on 12/18/2009 11:26:43 AM PST by trumandogz (The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
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To: freedumb2003

If I read the article right it’s the Mall Security that they have to paid the fine to.


14 posted on 12/18/2009 11:27:48 AM PST by usmcobra (Your chances of dying in bed are reduced by getting out of it, but most people still die in bed)
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To: trumandogz

Sounds like plain old theft to me. Toss the thieves in jail.


15 posted on 12/18/2009 11:27:48 AM PST by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: a fool in paradise

When I was a child, Pleasant Grove was a thriving, white working class neighborhood — a place of shady lanes, good schools, and thriving businesses.

In the 1970s, it became a hellhole. It is a ghetto now — a war zone of abandoned cars, empty shopping centers, and houses with razor-wire-topped steel fences around their yards.

What happened to Pleasant Grove? I’ll leave you all to fill in in the answer for yourselves.


16 posted on 12/18/2009 11:28:45 AM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: GovernmentShrinker

Well said.


17 posted on 12/18/2009 11:30:08 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: usmcobra

>>If I read the article right it’s the Mall Security that they have to paid the fine to<<

I would love to see that contract — it must be the only mall for many miles around...


18 posted on 12/18/2009 11:30:12 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: freedumb2003

Presumably a fine from the mall management, for continuing to sell the shirts after they were notified they needed to stop selling them. No reason a mall can’t build a system of fines into its contracts. HOAs do it all the time.


19 posted on 12/18/2009 11:31:09 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: B-Chan

In Houston, the locals have taken to calling Greenspoint Mall “Gunspoint Mall”.


20 posted on 12/18/2009 12:09:30 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Question authority!Who is the University of East Anglia to drive the 'Global Climate Change' agenda?)
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