PORN KING SOUNDS OFF OVER FLIERS: Jonathan How and Lee Matthews The Manawatu Standard 27 April 2010
Commercial rivalries boiled over outside the Erotica Expo at the weekend, as porn king Steve Crow and a Palmerston North sex shop owner clashed over the handing out of fliers. The R18 Shop owner Gordon Arcus was giving out fliers about his shop outside the Convention Centre-held expo at 1pm yesterday, when Mr Crow and two staff members approached him.
Mr Arcus claimed Mr Crow came “barrelling out” and swore at him before allegedly making threats towards him. “I couldn’t believe it. I was just on the public footpath.”…….
A[n] [Erotica Expo] billboard outside the expo, which featured an image of a naked woman, was stolen, and one of the Erotica cars had a window smashed.
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He said Mr Crow told him he was a “pirate, a cheat and a thief, and he was making money off the backs of others”.
“I thought that was a bit rich.”
Mr Arcus has reported the threats to the police.
“I took him seriously.
“He was one angry, abusive man.”
When approached by the Manawatu Standard, Mr Crow admitted verbally abusing Mr Arcus, but denied making any physical threats.
The reason for the altercation was because Mr Arcus had allegedly copied and sold adult DVDs made by one of Mr Crow’s companies, he said.
“He was telling people: `Don’t go in there, go to my shop because there’s a 50 per cent off sale’,” Mr Crow said.
“I went over and I called him a leech and I called him a parasite.
“Yes, I was abusive but he’s an a*******.
“I certainly didn’t threaten him.”
Mr Crow said if Mr Arcus wanted to use the expo as a promotional tool, he should pay like everyone else.
Mr Arcus denied copying any DVDs, and said the “free market economy” gave him the right to advertise when and where he wanted.
Three other incidents marred what was an otherwise successful expo, which had a slightly higher attendance than the 2007 show, Mr Crow said.
A billboard outside the expo, which featured an image of a naked woman, was stolen, and one of the Erotica cars had a window smashed.
The billboard had earlier raised controversy after Palmerston North mayor Jono Naylor began an investigation into whether it had previously been deemed obscene by the Advertising Complaints Authority.
Mr Crow said an intoxicated man was thrown out of the expo over the weekend after he became abusive towards his girlfriend.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/3622320/Porn-king-sounds-off-over-fliers
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