Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Snowflake gangbangers?

Australia: THE Hells Angels claim their feelings have been hurt, and they are “distressed” by their fearsome bikie logo appearing on hipster T-shirts and have called in the lawyers.

It is the seventh time the Browns Plains-based Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation (Australia) — declared a criminal organisation by the Queensland Government in 2013 — has sued a retailer or manufacturer since 2008.

Six cases were launched in the past year by the club’s corporate entity, which is wholly owned by Brisbane president Mark Nelms.

On September 29 the gang sued a Melbourne company that sells T-shirts online emblazoned with their trademarked “death head” logo, or the phrase “Hells Angels”.

In its statement of claim lodged in the Federal Court in Brisbane, the Hells Angels claim three T-shirts and one poster they purchased from Redbubble last year are in breach of their intellectual property.

They point to a $31 T-shirt with the Hells Angels crest on it, a “Hells Angels Maths Club” T-shirt and a “Hells Angels Movie” T-shirt, and a poster of a bikie wearing his colours sitting with a young girl.

“Redbubble’s conduct has allowed non-members of the Club to wear indicia reserved for the members, thereby causing anger, hurt feelings and personal distress,” the club claims.

SOURCE

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, the poor criminals are offended: oh dear.

Unknown said...

It's not that they're offended. It's that federal law requires them to protect their trademark or run the risk of losing it.

Anonymous said...

Lorg Skyegon,

Which is of course the context in which "hurt" was used in this case - not as the reporter sought to portray it.

Just another reporter trying to make a story out of nothing and showing her ignorance..

Spurwing Plover the fighting shorebird said...

Its getting dumber in this room i can detect the snowflakes and the whining and i see liberal snowflakes