Is this story about someone taking revenge on his cheating ex-girlfriend by tattooing excrement on her back true? This one is making the rounds on the Internet currently and I'm having trouble finding any reliable source. Most people seem to be citing the following unsourced tumblr post > Tattoo artist Ryan Fitzgerald from Dayton, OH was hit with a $100,000 lawsuit last week by his ex-girlfriend Rossie Brovent. She claims that her boyfriend was supposed to tattoo a scene from Narnia on her back but instead tattooed an image of a pile of excrement with flies buzzing around it. I've found one post that uses that image from as early as 2009-12-16 (not that it shows much of anything, but might be helpful), the image is also all over image blogspam since that date.

If this story had happened in the past five years, it is reasonable to expect the story would have made the local papers.

The major daily in Dayton, Ohio is the Dayton Daily News.

The searchable archive of the Dayton Daily News goes back at least five years.

Searching the site for tattoo fitzgerald returns a number of unrelated results, but, crucially, demonstrates the archive search function works.

Searching the site for [tattoo Brovent] reveals nothing ("Brovent" being the unusual surname of the woman involved.)

Absence of evidence - where evidence is _expected_ \- is evidence of absence.

I conclude this story did not occur in the last five years, with the names given, in the location given.

Edited to Add:

Via Snopes, the Daily Mail reports there are no corroborating court documents, while the Smoking Gun adds there are no people with those names in the Nexis database, and no registered tattoo artists by that name.