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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 10:48 AM Apr 2014

Gas station signs with gay slur causing controversy in LaGrange Georgia

By Rachel Stockman
LAGRANGE, Ga. — A sign with a gay slur on it is upsetting some customers at a LaGrange convenience store.

The owner said he put it up because he was sick of customers coming in with saggy pants. The sign calls customers a gay slur if they choose to wear saggy pants.

“I came up with that sign, nobody else did,” said Anil Patel, who owns PCA Food Store on Hogansville Road. “Since that sign went up there, I don’t see no pants down in my store, because they read the sign and they decide what they want to be.”

“I couldn’t believe they put something like that up,” said customer Joshua Southern, who said he plans to no longer shop at the store.

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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/gas-station-signs-gay-slur-causing-controversy-lag/nfXns/

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LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
1. The owner may well be East Indian - Patel - and
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 10:58 AM
Apr 2014

be demonstrating some massive cultural ignorance in addition to homophobia. Once word gets to him that this sign will affect sales he'll have the sign down. The almighty dollar will trump his hatred of both gays and saggy pants!

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
6. His daddy took it down because he is "out of town" but he said he will put it back up
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 11:25 AM
Apr 2014

Regardless of where he is from he is just a fucking asshole...


Now, outside of the dick making this a story, if you watch the video at the link. I guarantee you will start ROFL at 35 seconds into that video.

OMFG

erpowers

(9,350 posts)
9. Didn't Laugh, but was Shocked
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 12:58 PM
Apr 2014

Maybe we are talking about different things; I am talking about the guy, with the baseball hat, in the truck. I am not aware of when the video turns to him. I was more shocked by the guy saying it was like he was living in hickville. I thought he looked like someone who would live in hickville.

TlalocW

(15,383 posts)
2. I would want everyone wearing pants
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 11:13 AM
Apr 2014

To be wearing them saggy. If I caught them shoplifting in my store, they wouldn't be able to run very fast.

TlalocW

bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
4. I'm thinking that his choice of a gay slur (as opposed to the "N-word")
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 11:18 AM
Apr 2014

was made to reduce the likelihood of him getting his ass kicked (in his clearly bigoted mind).

Lancero

(3,003 posts)
11. For those who haven't heard the 'history' behind it...
Fri Apr 11, 2014, 01:16 PM
Apr 2014

It's was a old myth that sagging pants were a way for prisoners to tell others that they were avaliable.

http://www.snopes.com/risque/homosex/sagging.asp

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