Florida man sues to keep inflatable Super Mario outside business

A Florida business owner filed a lawsuit to contest a town ordinance prohibiting him from displaying a 10-foot-tall inflatable Super Mario outside of his video game store.Screen capture/InstituteForJustice/YouTube

April 7 (UPI) -- The owner of a Florida video game store is challenging a town law that prevented him from displaying an inflatable character outside his store.

Government in the Jacksonville suburb of Orange Park told Scott Fisher, owner of Gone Broke Gaming, he was required to remove the 10-foot inflatable Super Mario that once stood outside his store or face a fine of $100 for each day it remained.

The town cited a law that prohibits business owners from installing portable displays, like the giant Mario, that convey a message relating to their business.

"Running a small business isn't easy from the start," Fisher said. "Then having the city tell me they're going to cut some of my profits out from under me in the form of not having my advertising, it kind of hurts

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