A tattoo artist's revenge
An Ohio tattoo artist tattooed a pile of excrement on his girlfriend’s back after he learned she had cheated on him. Ryan Fitzjerald had been asked by girlfriend Rossie Brovent to tattoo her back with a scene from the Narnia fantasy series. Instead, after first getting her to sign a document allowing him to use his “artist’s discretion,” Fitzjerald took his revenge with an image of steaming poo circled by flies. “I was passed out for most of the time,” says Brovent, who admits she was drunk, “and woke up to this horrible image on my back.”
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