Provocative fake fliers left on Pickerington porches

By Mary Beth Lane

The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday August 6, 2013 6:07 AM

Some Pickerington neighborhoods have been bombarded with risque and graphic fliers left recently on porches and at mailboxes.

Even weirder is that the fliers are two different sets that apparently come from different sources.

Last week, Pickerington police sent an advisory to residents telling them that fliers carrying the official city logo at the top were, in fact, not from the city.

The fliers listed upcoming events including a farmers market offering medicinal marijuana treats for the whole fam.

Also scheduled, according to the flier, was an American Red Cross event offering on-site circumcisions, a citywide vote to build electrical fencing to keep poor people from Reynoldsburg out of Pickerington, and the opening of the Picktown PussyCats Gentlemans Club. Job applicants to Pickeringtons first strip club were directed to the city website.

The fliers were left at homes in the Cherry Hill and Colony Park neighborhoods, city council President Gavin Blair said yesterday.

I got a call from Cherry Hill one day last week. Is the city doing all this? Is this true? I said, Obviously, no. There is no strip club, no medical marijuana being distributed. Blair said.

The timing of those fake fliers roughly coincided with the distribution of other fliers left on porches in the Melrose subdivision, east of Rt. 256 and south of Refugee Road, close to a medical clinic at 670 Hill Rd. N. that has drawn controversy, said Blair and Pickerington Police Cmdr. Matt Delp.

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Provocative fake fliers left on Pickerington porches