Rocky Mountain News: Local: About 11 a.m., Shasta Bates, 26, was standing in the shopping center store in the 800 block of South Monaco Parkway when a man walked in and started arguing with her about a bumper sticker on the back of her truck that had ‘Fuck Bush’ in white letters on a black background.
‘He was saying it was very sick and wrong and you shouldn’t be doing that,’ Bates said. ‘He was very offended by it. I said, ‘You didn’t have to take it so personally.’
The two argued for a few minutes, and then the man walked out of the store and stood behind Bates’ truck. A few minutes later, the man flagged down police Sgt. Michael Karasek, who was patrolling the area.
Rocky Mountain News reporter Katie Kerwin McCrimmon, who happened to be at the store at the time, walked up to the two and asked what was going on.
The man pointed the bumper sticker out to McCrimmon, and then Karasek told her that it was illegal because it was profane, McCrimmon said.
Reached late Monday, City Attorney Cole Finnegan said he didn’t believe there were any city ordinances against displaying a profane bumper sticker.
Karasek then walked into the store and confronted Bates.
‘He said, ‘You need to take off those stickers because it’s profanity and it’s against the law to have profanity on your truck,’ ‘ Bates said. ‘Then he said, ‘If you ever show up here again, I’m going to make you take those stickers off and arrest you. Never come back into that area.’ ‘
McCrimmon, who had followed the officer into the store, said Karasek wrote down the woman’s license-plate number and then told her: ‘You take those bumper stickers off or I will come and find you and I will arrest you.’
