Pignorant!
SI dust-up over ‘Peanuts’ shirt
Is a fashion company telling Staten Islanders they’re garbage?
American Eagle Outfitters recently launched a line of sweat shirts featuring images of Peanuts characters, all paired with a Big Apple borough.
Brooklyn was represented by “Joe Cool” Snoopy sporting his hipster shades.
Manhattan featured beloved Charlie Brown and Linus leaning on a brick wall.
But Staten Island got stinky Pig-Pen. And it’s not happy.
The city’s least-populous borough, which hosted the world’s largest landfill for half a century until it was decommissoned in 2001, is still very sensitive when it comes to all things odorous.
“It’s about the Staten Island DUMP!! Pig-pen & the dump kinda go hand & hand,” wrote one poster to silive.com, which first reported the story. “But the dump has been closed for a while now they need to move on compare us to something else!!!!”
American Eagle contends it wasn’t dumping on the socalled “forgotten borough.”
“We are sorry if anyone took exception to the shirt. It is part of a line that was meant to showcase the lovable Peanuts characters and in no way make any statement about the good people of Staten Island,” the company told The Post.
Staten Islanders can take solace in one thing: Queens and The Bronx didn’t even get their own shirts.