Bay City — Overwhelming response brought an early end to VooDoo Tattoo's 24 hour breast cancer tattoo marathon. The event, where patrons pay $20 for a breast cancer ribbon tattoo, has had such an overwhelming response that the tattoo parlor, located at 1010 Columbus Ave., had to lock its doors at 7 a.m., turning away participants said employee Shannon Rodriguez.
Rodriguez said all told, the shop inked 271 tattoos.
Half of the proceeds will go towards the American Cancer Society.
Rodriguez said VooDoo Tattoo is beginning to run out of supplies, such as tubes used for tattooing and will need to make a special order to keep working throughout the week. Local businesses came out to help VooDoo tattoo employees and patrons — many of which stood in line for several hours before making it into VooDoo tattoo.
Rodiguez said Grandpa Tony's, D'Angelo's Pizza and Bare Bones BBQ & Pizza donated food for the employees while the American Cancer Society donated cookies, bottled water and hot cocoa for patrons waiting in line.
"We definitely plan to do another one," Rodriguez said. "We didn't know we'd get this kind of response."
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