Many Tattoo Parlors are finding folks coming in and asking for tattoos that signify military service, which should not be too awfully surprising except that a few of the folks coming in have never actually served in the military. This is rather alarming.

So why would anyone get a military service tattoo if they were never in the military? Well, many bums want to get tattoos so that they can pretend they were in the military and feed off of others and display them for free donations. Others fakers want people to believe that they were in the military so they can develop credibility or project an air of toughness or strength of character.

Indeed, I was rather alarmed when I saw an Airborne tattoo insignia in a tattoo parlor with a price tag next to it of $100. Meaning that you would not have to prove that you're ever in the military just give them the $100, and that was a little disconcerting. Of course, a tattoo parlor is under no legal obligation to check papers to make sure that they were actually in the military before they give them that tattoo.

Still, it seems fraudulent to display a tattoo of military service when you are never in the military. That is as bad as a Physician, who does not have a medical license to be a Doctor and is displaying a fake diploma from a major university on his wall. Something should be done about this is my thinking.

What say you? Do you feel that those faked tattoos of military service exhibits criminal intent to defraud? Should there be a fine for this? Or "perhaps the court can just cut off the skin below the tattoo and leave the person in charge of cleaning up the wound," stated one tattoo artist in our interview.