Good.

You confuse me. Tattoos Ok---sex not!

All this sorting about what business can be started confuses me.

Hottroddz,
The best thing to do is stay off these blogs and stop trying to defend your new shop. Some of the people on here can be very cruel, and they will make you look like the bad guy.

They do not realize that your customers are their 30-something, college educated, church-going children. They still think that drunk soldiers and Hell's Angels are the ones being tattooed. I think it's called a generation gap.

Amen - tattoos are not taboo like they used to be. I'm one of those 30-something, college educated people you refer to and I got mine 4 years ago and I want a second one. I will gladly be one of their first customers!

I take long walks on the paths all the time. I frankly don't see the problems you talk about in your letter.

You talk about too much development, are you advocating a moratorium?

Where are you getting numbers that would say that PTC is undergoing a creeping crime wave?

Gee, I don't know, maybe it's the multiple armed robberies we've seen in the past months (a dollar store, a tire store, et al), or maybe it was the man who was threatened with a gun on the cart path near Wal-Mart on 54 (thanks so much Doug McMurrain.) Anyone who shops at the Braelinn Village shopping center surely rememebers the "Wanted" fliers describing suspects on the doors of the shops. What about the attempted robbery of the Wachovia bank? Or then again maybe it was the methamphetamine dealer who was caught trying to peddle his product on the cartpath, but, again, it could be the many wrappers of "tobacco" rolling products that litter the cart path, mainly around certain parts of the path. Oh yeah, don't forget about the recent gas station robberies in Tyrone and the labeling of Fayette county as a "High Intensity Drug Trafficking" area. To think that Peachtree City will somehow be magically insulated from all this is nonsense. In 1996 the PTC police department answered 17,683 calls. In 2006 they answered 70,357.
And yes, I am advocating a moratorium. I think we need to temporarily halt development and form an exploratory committee comprised of city council members, city employees, and citizens in order to engage in frank discussion of various issues and decide what is in the best interest of the city.

I think waiting until it opens before wailing about the sky falling or equating it with the further decline of PTC might be a better idea. If it turns out to be a dump with nothing but skinhead neo-nazi's hanging out, yeah, then call it not family-friendly. To assume it will be some kind of "bad place" before it even opens though is ridiculous.

NUK

I think you are dead on man. Let the people decide. If it doesn't work for this area it won't make money - if it makes money it fills a demand.

Problem solved.

I don't know where you people get your info but it shows you don't know what your talking about when it comes to tattoos.I'm not some shady aids infected drugged up biker who wants to corrupt your city.I'm a hard working business man who wants to raise my kids with same advantages your child has.What makes you think your a better human being than I am just because I'm not Mr. 9 to 5.This is America I'm American born right here in Georgia.Would you rather have another liquor store or gas station? All you talk about is the empty retail spaces throughout the city, it seems like we are the answer to your problems yet you are never happy.

Cookie, this is from another thread, but feel free to share in this message:

Rodney Pendleton: Welcome!
Submitted by AF A-10 on Sat, 02/23/2008 - 11:09am.
I'm a guy with the same skin I was born with (minus some weathering from a life of refusing to grow up). Even though I don't do tats, I'm a big fan of living in a free country; one that doesn't dictate what art one may or may not put on their body; where and how many new holes one can come up with and hang things on and through. That being said, poor Mr. Doug Tucker sums up this confused and self-conflicting town very well. Your local conservatives will say they like small government and personal freedom, but re read what Mr. Tucker and his like-mindset locals really feel:

"I find tattoos distateful and demeaning to people, probably because they reflect an art of self-mutilation.

I'm also getting older and less comfortable with change. "

Rodney, so that you may remain above the fray, I'll answer Mr. Tucker for you:

Dear Mr. Tucker: Welcome to America, where there are brave men and women out fighting for our rights at this very moment; many of them with tattoos all up and down their arms, legs, backs. Names of their units, their fallen brothers and sisters, phrases that keep them going in the face of death. I can not speak for them, but I will speak for myself: IF YOU FIND TATOOS DISTASTEFUL, DON'T GET ONE! If you don't like change, keep yourself how you are, but you have no right to my body or any one else's who is not your minor child or dependent. I find sansibelts, shorts and black socks distasteful, but feel FREE to keep wearing them.
Rodney, I hope that helps a bit. Best of luck, and if you see a teen aged black girl, 5'6", last name King in your shop, you had best show her the door!

Cheers,

Kevin "Hack" King

ps: Mudcat, you said said:
"If you can't keep quiet - join NOW or PETA and get a big sign to show around."

She's one of yours brother! Believe that!

in your future that has "Love Dad" in the middle of it.

I noticed that you didn't ask that your son be shown the door.

Please tell me that you're not prone to sexual discrimination.

Pray tell, what are you going to do if Mrs. Hack decides she wants a tat?

My name is David Pendleton, I am the brother of the guy opening the tattoo shop in Peachtree city, I will be working there also and I see this as my chance to finally break away from SSI (Supplemental Security Income) and make a living of my own....I receive SSI because I was disabled in a motorcycle wreck...and speaking of motorcycles, if we was to open a motorcycle shop in PTC would everyone freak out and think "Oh my, the hells angels are moving in!?" No, I don't think they would, so why the big issue with us having a tattoo shop there? What you see as a hinderance I see as a way of finally getting out from underneath the lousy $600 a month the government gives me to "live on" and to start building a future for myself and my family. This is 2008 after all and not 1950, time changes and people must change with the times...For those that have shown their support of us opening up there, I thank you very much.....and for those that assume we are bringing ill will or some kind of "Evil element" to your town you couldn't be any farther from the truth.

Well, welcome to the city, y'all. I wish you much success in our little, southern oasis here in PTC. It will be good to shake up this town a bit!

Unclench your keister, Cookie.
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GOD BLESS THIS MESS

You somehow managed to prove part of my point. Thanks.

I wish you success in you business endeavor.
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Hi Cy!

Wanna go with me to PTC, and get a TAT???
We can take the family & have dinner somewhere!

Spandex and a Tattoo. I think Mrs. Cy might freak out.
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Hi David,

I'm looking forward to the shop opening. Make sure you search all the blogs that have been posted. I have been in support.
Also tell your brother to check his email. He listed a email address in a previous post. I emailed him last night.

Looking forward to seeing the new place. I'm sure you don't have to be told, just follow the rules, keep a clean place, and make sure to keep the teenagers out. I assure you, they will try to sneak in to get a look at the work being done. Just don't give the residents something else to talk about!!