A protester tied to an anti-porn Website got hosed down by an adult bookstore worker who didn't like the protester taping customers entering and leaving the store.
WAVE-TV, Louisville's NBC News affiliate, reported that John Reneer of war-line.com admitted he hoped to shut down such adult businesses, even if it takes posting their customers' pictures online. The store worker who hosed Reneer apparently escaped before the city police showed up at the scene, the station said.
"The ultimate goal would be to close them down if we can," Reneer told WAVE. "They can't operate without customers…I'm not restraining their trade. We're not blocking anybody, we're not doing anything wrong. We have a right to be here. They have a right to be over there. We have a right to be over here if we want to be."
The unidentified store's manager, who identified herself only as Michelle and said she plans to sue the protesters, told the station a slightly different story, accusing Reneer of running at and trying to run off the store's customers. "He's running at people, at customers, trying to run them away," she said. "He's on our property, which is over there, our property line. And we can't get him off until I get the warrant."
Reneer, who was sitting in a lawn chair while photographing the store's customers, never got up when the store worker turned a garden hose onto him, nor did he stop taping, WAVE said. He told the station he was able to photograph part of the license number of the man who sprayed him, and that he would swear out a warrant against him.
