Man threatened with arrest for X-rated tummy tattoo: ‘It’s obscene’
Can you stomach this ink?
A man has “no regrets” about this obscene tattoo stretching down his midriff, which depicts a naked woman with her legs spread wide open.
It only took four hours and less than $70 for Richard Hart, 60, to get his hand-drawn design inked for his 40th birthday in South Wales — and says most people aren’t fazed by the bizarre design.
“If I had a pound for everyone who has asked to have a photo with it I’d be a very rich man,” he told Southwest News Service.
However, law enforcement aren’t always as amused by the X-rated tatt.
When Hart visited Spain, cops even threatened to arrest him if he didn’t cover the ink up with a shirt.
“I was in Benidorm and it was boiling hot, I took my top off and two police came and told me to cover up or they would handcuff me,” Hart, a retired bar owner, recalled.
“We got into a bit of an argument — I had to wear a t-shirt for the rest of the holiday.”
Hart was initially inspired by his tattoo artist’s brother, who had “a naked lady tattooed on him,” and thought he “could go one further.”
“Obviously it is a bit obscene, but it never bothers me,” he said of the ink, which he’s now had plastered on his tummy for two decades.
Hart’s partner, 66-year-old Kay Ritchie, isn’t bothered by the obscene ink, and Hart says both his daughter Melissa, 38, and his son Alex, 35, are “fine” with it.
However, he admitted: “I do have to cover it up in front of the grandchildren though.”
