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Article: Sign ordered down
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- The Sun, San Bernardino, Calif.
- Article date:
- March 10, 2006
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SAN BERNARDINO - The sign was as short-lived as it was
provocative.
On the facade of the Fifth Street Coin Laundry, a constant hub of
activity anchored on the city's most notorious street corner, the
sign spoke to the fearlessness of the man who erected it and the
location's reputation.
"Now you can watch your favorite drug dealer on the Internet,''
the sign read, printed with red ink on a 10-by-3-foot rectangle.
The sign was flanked by a half-dozen cameras, their working
condition proven inside, where flashing images of the bustling
storefront played next to spin cycles and tumble drys.
But the sign only hung from the building for about two days before
a code-enforcement ...