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TexasTowelie

(111,279 posts)
Wed May 13, 2020, 07:04 PM May 2020

Waco tattoo shop opens, violating emergency order in protest

Chonna Colbert, co-owner of Infamous Ink, said she and her husband didn’t set out to make waves, but their industry is misunderstood in the best of times and has been unfairly singled out by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to reopen Texas businesses.

The local tattoo shop defied Abbott’s orders by opening for business last weekend, and became the eighth Waco business to violate statewide COVID-19 emergency orders.

“Why is it that other one-to-one businesses were allowed to open May 8, but we were not?” Colbert said. “We were lumped into a category with massage parlors and sexually-oriented businesses and amusement parks. No one will give us an answer, and that’s all we’re asking for.”

Infamous Ink became the most recent business to protest not being allowed to reopen under Abbott’s plan. The owners, Chonna and Zac Colbert, have been cited by the city’s Code Enforcement division four times for opening its doors to customers, and opened them again Tuesday to raise money for a local nonprofit.

Read more: https://www.wacotrib.com/business/waco-tattoo-shop-opens-violating-emergency-order-in-protest/article_2c357a41-d921-522e-aa30-65b21626b24a.html

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Waco tattoo shop opens, violating emergency order in protest (Original Post) TexasTowelie May 2020 OP
If their business insurance company finds out, they will be without insurance. Eliot Rosewater May 2020 #1

Eliot Rosewater

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1. If their business insurance company finds out, they will be without insurance.
Wed May 13, 2020, 07:29 PM
May 2020

If you knowingly put me at risk like there is a puddle of water in the middle of the floor of your tattoo shop and you are AWARE that it is there, someone says "Look at that puddle of water on the floor of your tattoo shop", and you then do nothing about it, and then I slip, we call that "negligence."

Arguably even if you didnt know about it there can be some liability, but SLAM DUNK COMES with knowledge beforehand.

Disease may be treated differently, not sure, but THEY KNOW the disease is prevalent and THEY KNOW how it is spread, so if a customer gets it and can prove that is where they got it or make it a reasonable assumption that is where they got it, they can be sued out of existence.



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