"Golf Club Co. Threatens To Move If Pot Shop Becomes Neighbor"

[Xicano]

Golf club manufacturer Ping is threatening to leave its Phoenix headquarters after 45 years if a medical marijuana dispensary is allowed in the neighborhood, according to its attorney. If you support medical marijuana patients, you definitely want to think twice before buying anything made by these morons.

While most dispensary applications sailed through without opposition, Ping objected strenuously to an applicant for a site at 1944 W. North Lane, one block south of the company's headquarters, reports Michael Clancy at The Arizona Republic.

Ping representative Stephen Earl told a Phoenix hearing officer that the company is "considering" investing $170 million to renovate its headquarters, but "may not do so if the neighborhood decline continues."

Earl said Ping brings in celebrities and pro golfers from around the world, and college teams rom across the country, for tours and club fittings. Bringing them into a "bad neighborhood" reflects poorly on the company, he said.

The neighborhood already includes a striptease club, Centerfolds Cabaret; a lingerie store, Fascinations; and a hemp products store is planned.

Earl claimed the neighborhood is becoming a "hotbed of deleterious uses," including the possible medical marijuana dispensary.


http://www.tokeofthetown.com/2011/03/golf_club_co_threatens_to_move_if_pot_shop_becomes.php

[walldude]

1. Well that will endear them to the golfers I know...

all of whom go golfing as an excuse to get high and drink...

[CrownPrinceBandar]

2. LOL The hemp store pushed them over the limit.......

Poor Ping, doesn't want there executives seeing legal medicine being given out on their way to the strip club.

Screw Ping. I'll keep my Taylor Made, thank you.

[CBGLuthier]

3. over priced crap that won't make any duffer better

I paid exactly $99.00 for an entire set of cheap clubs that work just fine.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

5. I paid $150 for my set of TM Burners.........

They'll probably be the only clubs my hacking self we'll ever need.

[KansDem]

4. This has marketing potential!

Name the dispensary:

"Putt and Pot"

"The Pot Shot"

"The Putt and Puff"

Any others?

[RegieRocker]

6. The true green, the real green, one with the green,

Out of the rough into the green

[RKP5637]

8. I like "The Putt and Puff" - That's Great!!! Can't get much better a name IMO! LOL n/t

[gkhouston]

12. "Ping Bong" if they really want to get up the golf company's nose. n/t

[KamaAina]

14. The Pot Bunker

you've seen pot bunkers. They're those deep, devilish ones found on British Open courses, like the one in which Thomas Bjorn came undone.

[gort]

16. Duffer and Puffer

Nt

[RKP5637]

7. Well, I'm sure that will make the neighborhood just peachy for them if stopped. Yet another

WTF moment. I guess I just fail to see their logic. They could change their name from Ping to Bong! God am I fed up with regressive people and corporations in RW America.

[Horse with no Name]

9. Well...my guess is that Phoenix is suffering

from regressive policies as well as the burst bubble.

Perhaps it is declining as the golf mecca it was a few years back.

Perhaps celebrities and pro-golfers don't want to come to Phoenix anymore.

Perhaps Ping is just looking for a way to get out AND shove their fascist agenda down their throats at the same time.

Anyway...my answer to them--go ahead. Just TRY to sell your real estate in that market. Cut off your fucking nose to spite your face...but either way, the owners of the property have just as much of a right to run their legal business as you do.

[wildbilln864]

10. fuggum! nt

[Patiod]

11. That's because people don't golf impaired!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Modern_Matthew]

13. Good. I can't wait until golf courses are taken over for marijuana crops. nt

[KamaAina]

15. Wait a minute. Arizona has medical MJ? ARIZONA?!

Perhaps we could all chip in and get cards for Brewer, Pearce, et al. :smoke: