On Friday I blogged about the controversy going on over at the Miss Worcester Diner, where the owner (Kim Kniskern) is refusing to take down a hand painted Harley-Davidson sign after getting a cease and desist letter from the company over the illegal use of their trademark.
It’s really simple – you can’t use someone else’s trademark without their permission. It doesn’t matter if you like riding Harley’s, or you’re not profiting off of the sign. They have legal liabilities they need to worry about, they own it, and if they ask you to take it down then you take it down. Period. Quite frankly they’re lucky they didn’t get sued over it, and I kind of hope they do now because they’re so fucking stupid.
Our idiot mayor Joe Puddy has chimed in with this:
“It is just as an American icon as is Harley Davidson.”
No, you fucking idiot, it is not.
“What is more American than a meal at a diner?”
I dunno, joining the army? Voting? Becoming a citizen? But I guess the fact that they’re a diner means they get to circumvent trademark law.
“While I believe that brand protection is important, I do not believe that there is any confusion in this case.”
You’re right, there is no confusion. She’s 100% in the wrong. And by supporting her you’re saying that you do NOT believe brand protection is important.
“I am inviting you for breakfast at Miss Worcester Diner. You will see for yourself there is no appropriation of your brand.”
This is the very definition of brand appropriation, you fucking idiot. No one outside of Worcester cares about Worcester or plans to visit it, and the CEO of Harley-Davidson doesn’t follow you on Facebook. You’re a nobody, small time mayor. You are not important or relevant in any way, shape, or form. Your invitation to meet up is declined because you simply do not matter.
For those of you unfamiliar with how stupid our mayor is in Worcester, three years ago yesterday he held what is probably the most hilariously embarrassing press conference in the history of politics, which I wrote about here. Two days before that he organized a protest of the City Council meeting because one of the councilors wanted to declare that Worcester wouldn’t be a sanctuary city. So he brought a mob here to protest the councilor he didn’t like, and then they wouldn’t shut up which prompted him to turn to his left and tell the person next to him, “these people are friggin morons, they are not educated,” not realizing that his microphone was on.
The next day he apologized for calling his OWN SUPPORTERS morons, and then the day after that he said it wasn’t him who said that even though he had already apologized and it was undeniable that it was him who said it.
This is the guy in charge of leading the City of Worcester. You don’t hear about him like you hear about mayors like Joe Curtatone and Jasiel Correia because he’s not a thief or a rabid SJW. He’s just an easily forgettable oafish moron, who can barely complete a sentence, and thus perfectly represents Worcester. I talked about it all on the live show Saturday night.
But perhaps the most hilarious part about this whole saga is that the City of Worcester has cracked down on private company’s using the city’s seal without their permission.
They literally made the Turtlegram stop using their logo because of a possible infringement. Now the same fucking guy who voted to do that is out there shaming Harley-Davidson for doing the exact same thing he did.
Oh, and the Miss Worcester Diner also uses the city’s logo on it.
Guess Mayor Moron missed that one.
I messaged Tony Freitas and Kim Kniskern about coming on the live show to talk about this. Here’s what Kim said.
Translation – she changed her mind about coming on because unlike the mainstream media I’ll actually ask her questions. These people don’t wanna be asked questions, they wanna whine about how they’re victims and share their meaningless Change.org petition.
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31 Comment(s)
Confucius say; he who rides loud motorcycle is hung like grain of rice.
If the mayor is going to talk to executives of the Harley Davidson Motor Company, it should be to say this: “You have an engine assembly plant in Milwaukee. You have a chassis assembly plant in York. I have a city with 100,000 people trained in doing things with metal: casting, forming, forging, machining, plating. I have 1 million people in my county that can work that skill set. Let’s start with a component plant in this city, with a long term goal of integrating all your work in this county. Yes, we can form plastic trim, and build electrical and electronics components as well.”
thanks bunches, but i’ll stick to the ‘Miss February 1967 Automat’, drop a nickel and get meself a nice slice of pie and cuppa joe, without any kind of vehicular advertising.
“As Mayor of the city of Worcester, I regularly eat at the Miss Worcester Diner.”
Yeah Puddy, it shows.
What kind of a politician would encourage a constituent to break laws? The mayor is using Kim for a cheap political ploy, and she will have to pay the price when HD follows up with legal remedies.
Isn’t this really a dispute about the right to be using the HD logo for selling meth? I mean, who would want to eat food at a place with that for a sign? Not even a starving person. Would you even want to go inside? But if you needed a meth connection, you’d get the no so subtle message from miles away. Maybe that’s why the mayor is so enthusiastic, no? Anyway, the owner won’t be paying license fees to HD, but more likely to whichever Mexican cartel controls Worcester.
The bar and shield logo is a symbol of meth distribution?
Yeah, ok.
You’ve been beating your limp crank to too many episodes of Gangland and Sons of Anarchy/Mayans and it’s making your brain as soft and mushy as your dead dick.
Please don’t breed.
Too long; didn’t read
I don’t think anyone is that interested in this story any more.
TLDR makes a solid point.
Hey Kim, it’s the mayor and I. The taint definitely would,impressive gap between her legs. I can see the wall behind her through it…lol
You sure know how to beat an already lame story to death.
Hey didn’t Mahone’s girlfriend do anything to upset you Sunday?
That’s 3 stories right there.
Nice of her to bring up her families criminal history, would have never known if she didn’t bring it up.
Funny how she says focus on the immediate issue, duh! That’s all that’s been happening here, is there something worse?
Your willing to take it down but it’s a money issue or you need a sponsor. You are not willing to take it down because you haven’t even after receiving a cease and desist letter. You are a moron, please look up the word moron in a dictionary not the urban dictionary.
“because that’s how I roll” OMG what a tool, nuff said cuz dats how I roll!!
Your wrong. You will see on Wednesday at our rally to save the Miss Worcester Diner! Don’t bring your clothes!
Very impressed, good food and large portions, left them a 4 log review in the parking lot.
Better make that 3 1/2 logs Andrea, I think I stepped on one.
Generous tipper, hope you come to my diner!!
Cannot stop laughing.
Seen better teeth on a chipmunk, fuck Joe Puddy and this thieving skank. She’s the type that would run an illegal whore house in an old Western with the help of a corrupt mayor or sheriff like Pussy Boy Puddy.
Pottie should put his money where his mouth is an agree to pay fifty percent of any judgement against the Mizz Woostah Dinah, fucking low lives.
We are going to have a rally outside of Miss WORCESTER Diner this Wednesday at 2pm. Come join us, show your support, and bring your baddest in the buff!
Where is “Merrimack Valley Turtle Bae”?
Where is “SJW Hunter”?
Where is “J-Dub”?
Where is “North Shore Turtle Babe”?
You just have that fat cow, “Bristol”, your (supposed) niece! (Keepin’ it in the family, huh, TurtleJizz?)
Enjoy the fresh air Josh.
Blogs and Bloggers have a short lifespan. Bloggers aren’t 30-year seat warmers like Clive or Kevin Cullen. The average blog, if successful, lasts around 5 years. Turnover is normal. Actually Uncle and Bristol are exceptions to the rule.
You produce nothing while these two continually expose the rot in our society. They are doing God’s work.
Also, Bristol is a piece of ass. You have no taste in women.
Blue-striped yoga pants on leather-faced ladies give me major lunch-time chubs!
Where’s all the ratchets gone? This sign drama is lame!
She appears to have nice boobs. A Hooters sign perhaps? Call it breastfast…
Do you think Puddy’s putting his pudding in her pussy?
I am out ladies!Anyone seen Baggz around?We need a power summit to
clear the air.I need to get out of the garage and score some dope.Let
the auditing commence.
Thats why I pulled you over today.
I dont stop often when traveling through Worcester.Fear
of being robbed at syringe point.Next time through I might go in.
Leave a unflushed mud monkey in the toilet and leave.
Might buy the cheapest thing on the menu like a coffee.
I wont tip.
It’s all fun & games for her until Harley-Davidson calls her bluff.
Also all fun and games until the bicycle lane moonbats call out Puddy for: “What’s more emblematic of America’s love of the open road than riding a Harley?”
IDK – more bike lanes?