Colorado tattoo parlor covers ceiling with lewd mural at war with neighboring apartment building: ‘Maybe we’re the idiots!’

Sometimes turning the bird over is not enough.

A tattoo parlor in Colorado got fed up with its customers’ cars being towed by a neighboring apartment building, so they covered their ceiling with a giant mural of male genitalia.

David Brown, 54, and his co-workers at Fallen Heroes Tattoo in Colorado Springs climbed onto his roof in early October with paintbrushes after months of trying to deal with the owners of 532CO, who he says towed dozens of cars while refusing to put up clear signage for their private parking spaces.

“The only thing they tell us is ‘That’s our property.’ Suck it.’ And I was like, ‘Okay, I don’t know what else to do,'” Brown told The Post. “Because they are not breaking any rules. It’s just, why be stupid?”

So the following mural embodies just that.

At the center of the dispute is an alley separating the two buildings, which is filled with private parking spaces for apartment residents, but the spots abut the lounge, while parking signage is on the other side of the alley. on the wall of the apartment building.

“So for anyone who drives there, they’ll think, ‘Oh, cool, I can park really close to the store.’ The signs are across the alley, mounted on their building,” Brown said.

He estimates that misleading signage has directly led to at least 40 customer cars being towed in just the last three months, and even more since the apartment building opened earlier this year (blocking the stunning mountain views the room when he did it, Brown said).

All it would take to fix the problem, Brown believes, is a simple “Resident Parking” stencil spray-painted on the spots, but months of efforts, he says, trying to contact management have gone nowhere.

“Management. You can’t talk to anyone. They put you on voicemail and you can never talk to anyone,” he said.

Feeling there was nowhere to turn, Brown and his employees at the tattoo parlor came up with a plan.

“We started talking about it and thought. “Maybe the whole neighborhood loves this apartment building that looks like Ikea threw up.” We thought, ‘Maybe we’re the idiots!’ “So we wondered what everyone liked to do in the mountains we could see before,” he jokes.

“So you have idiots up there skating, idiots up there snowboarding, a couple skiing. Doing all the things us idiots loved to do when we could see our mountain.”

The mural has not yet provoked any reaction from the apartment’s management company, but numerous residents have expressed their displeasure.

“Apartment residents are not fans. We talked to one and he said he thought that was disgusting,” Brown said, noting that they have received at least one review online calling them “lawless animals.”

“In fact, we’re making t-shirts about that,” he added.

Brown doesn’t want to have to maintain the mural for long and hopes the apartment management company will respond by simply adding new parking signage.

“I’m not leaving that up there one day longer than I have to,” Brown said. “I don’t need to make a monument of my penises.”

Building management did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.