"Panty Raid"

[DrLeftover]

October 22, 2014

A lingerie shop owner in Kansas City says her store was raided by Homeland Security agents Monday morning over a few dozen pair of panties she made in honor of her hometown baseball team.

Peregrine Honig, owner of Honig’s Birdies Panties shop in Crossroads, said she designed the Lucky Royals boyshorts that were set to go on sale Tuesday.

That is until federal agents showed up at her door and demanded she surrender the illegal undergarments.

“They came in and there were two guys” Ms. Honig told the Kansas City Star. “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.”

The panties, printed in Kansas City by Lindquist Press, read, “Take the Crown,” with “KC” across the bottom, the newspaper reported.

Officers reportedly explained that by connecting the “K” and the “C,” she infringed on major league baseball copyright. The panties were confiscated and Ms. Honig said she signed a statement saying she wouldn’t use the logo, the Star reported.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/22/homeland-security-raids-kansas-city-boutique-over-/

 

[Webster]

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...and people wonder why Homeland Security gets ripped over the least little thing at times...there's another reason why! What a bunch of maroons...

 

[DrLeftover]

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...and people wonder why Homeland Security gets ripped over the least little thing at times...there's another reason why! What a bunch of maroons...

We have found something else we agree on.

Remind me to drink to that when we get home tonight.

 

[Webster]

^ ^ ^
...and people wonder why Homeland Security gets ripped over the least little thing at times...there's another reason why! What a bunch of maroons...

We have found something else we agree on.

Remind me to drink to that when we get home tonight.

Wait...what?

 

[Jazzy]

Considering the other articles on the link page, this accusation is laughable.

 

[+paradox]

for what i can see, there's no copyright infringement...

also, since when does the department of homeland security worry about copyright infringement anyways? i thought that was fbi's and other agencies' ball field...

i'm so pissed that this is what's going on american's tax money when homeland security is supposed to be in the field of security and protection against threats...

 

[DrLeftover]

Another article from a local source:

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A small business owner is describing what happened when Homeland Security officers raided his printing shop in the Crossroads.

Eric Lindquist owns Lindquist Press, a small printing business near 20th and Baltimore.

He said on Tuesday, he finished a small order for Birdies, a boutique lingerie shop just a few blocks away. When he delivered it around noon, a man approached him on the street. Lindquist said the man asked if he printed the underwear with a Royals-related image on them. Lindquist said yes but declined the man’s request for a print job.

http://www.kshb.com/sports/baseball/royals/small-business-owner-describes-homeland-security-raid-after-printing-underwear-with-royals-image