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In reply to the discussion: This flag in Virginia needs to go as well. [View all]Journeyman
(15,031 posts)It flew above a gas station at the bottom of the L.A. side of the Grapevine, the name given to U.S. 5 as it crosses the mountains between central and southern California. This was decades ago.
There were numerous efforts made to get it removed but for the longest time it was a fruitless effort -- the flag was on private property, and though you'd think it would harm business, the fool kept flying it. He kept it illuminated at night. We stopped at the gas station once, but only to use the restroom, and truly just to say we'd pissed at the base of the Stars & Bars.
I don't know what happened to cause the flag to be removed, but one trip we noticed it was no longer there. Perhaps it was the unofficial economic boycott that forced that good ol' boy's hand, maybe political pressure, or it could have been something as simple as a corporate office threatening to pull his franchise ticket if he didn't stop embarrassing them. Whatever it took, it disappeared one day, never to return.
I suspect that Virginia flag will be a might harder to get down, but there's no harm in trying. If you ask to use their restroom, though, you may think twice before telling them why. My piss truth certainly pissed off a pissant working the pumps.