Davie Street Cigar Store General Custer turns the tables

(Vancouver Free Press) No one can accuse Davie Street coffee shop owner Darryl Alexcee of not having a sense of humour.
Sometimes, he jokes that his store, Darryl's Coffee and Native Art Shop, is on stolen land.
He has also placed a "Cigar Store General Custer" outside his establishment in the 900 block just south of Burrard Street. It's a playful twist on the life-size cigar store Indian, which U.S. tobacconists placed outside their shops for a couple of hundred years until they realized how offensive they were to aboriginal people.
Today, Alexcee told the Straight that scores of people have taken a photograph of his Cigar Store General Custer. Continued