Southeastern Connecticut is the "tattoo capital of the state," according to Guy Flatley, who has been inking customers' arms, legs and most everywhere in between for 30 years.
So when six employees defected from Flat's Tattooing shop this spring to open a new studio, 12 Tattoos & Body Piercing, about a mile away on Long Hill Road, Flatley said he wouldn't have minded so much. He, too, went out on his own 20 years ago after working and learning at another studio. He had enough respect to open his shop 50 miles away from his former employer, Flatley said, but that was the old way of doing things.
His real problem with the former employees is that they took his Internet domain name with them, and the Web is a major source of business.
Type Flatstattooing.com into your Web browser, and you'll be linked to the 12 Tattoos Web site after being informed the Flat's site is "now closed," and the "Web site out of business."
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