In the News: Tattoo Interruped by Homicide: Teen Forcibly Tattooed

It's been a busy week for tattoo news. First, an update on the Oklahoma situation: The bill to legalize (and regulate) tattooing is still pending in the House. As with South Carolina, legislators are having difficulty coming to an agreement as to how they plan to regulate the business.

Now, onto some more bizarre news. A man calmly walks into a Florida tattoo shop and announces that he would like to get a memorial tattoo because his baby died. Halfway through the tattoo, Homicide shows up to arrest the man - for the murder of the said baby. The man even had the audacity to ask Homicide if they could wait 10 minutes for the tattoo to be finished - they said no.

In another twisted story, a 17 year-old filed charges against two of his peers for forcibly holding him down and tattooing an obscenity on his forehead (in regards to fellatio, which included an image of male genitals between his eyebrows - use your imagination). The victim says he tried to fight them off, although the defendants' lawyer noticed that not only were there no defensive bruises on any of them, but the homemade tattoo is also in an impressively straight line, considering he was apparently protesting during the procedure. However, the judge says no one asks for this kind of tattoo, so it had to be forced, and charged them both with second-degree assault.