Thursday, October 21, 2010
Strippers Forced to Pay Back Undercover Cops for Dances
Posted by Kyle Swenson on Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 3:36 PM
This one is a score for good-government tax-watchdogs everywhere. When North Ridgeville police began getting reports that the dancers at a local strip club were forgetting about the whole Look-But-Don’t-Touch rule, they went to investigate. And like any thorough investigator getting to the heart of an issue, they went undercover and paid for lap dances at the club.
The sleuthing wasn’t for naught. As a result of the investigation, police raided Chrissy’s Lounge in May and arrested four women for brandishing their who-has and getting touchy-touchy with the clientele (according to the city ordinances, erotic dancing is legal in North Ridgeville as long as the performers are all wearing bathing suits or lingerie and surrounded by six-feet of hands-off space, so about the sexual equivalent of being at a community pool).
This week three of the dancers were found guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, according to the Morning Journal. As punishment, Judge Lisa Locke Graves fined them each $50 and made them reimburse the police department $100 for the lap dances purchased by the undercover officers, thus saving some member of the department’s upper ranks an awkward couple of minutes when one day a budget committee looks over expense reports and sees a line item like this: “$400, Chrissy’s Lounge, Champagne Room.” Rest assured, residents of North Ridgeville, your tax dollars did not go to waste on a poll dance, you will be reimbursed!
On a side note, it must be a real bummer to be sitting around the undercover squad room when they’re handing out assignments and get stuck with something like this:
“What’d you get today, Al?”
“I gotta be Roadside Cracker Dealer. You?”
“Automatic Firearms Salesman, again. Boring right? Mitch, what’d they assign you?
“Ahh damnit, I'm stuck with just Drunken Lapdance Monger. Second time this month! How am I going to explain this to the wife again?"
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Can someone please explain how this is going to make the community safer? What is the benefit of this law and the money spent on enforcing it?
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dislikeIt must be hell being a dancer now days, Having to pay back the money after you been busted has to be the pits. Thanks for the laugh
Ummmm......couldn't they have busted the dancers simply by observing them? Why did the officers have to actually participate in the lap dances? And why did it have to be more than one officer participating in this? I think it reflects poorly on the officers.
Thats not as bad as most places I have been too, this is over the top. Sometimes a girls gotta pay bills but don't be stupid enough to do it on the job ladies and jesus has anyone been there lately? I was there last week that bartender is so fucking hot but she will not dance no matter what I offered, too bad I would drop a grand on that ass
Thats not as bad as most places I have been too, this is over the top. Sometimes a girls gotta pay bills but don't be stupid enough to do it on the job ladies and jesus has anyone been there lately? I was there last week, the dancers behave and are ok but that bartender is so fucking hot and is sucks that she will not dance no matter what I offered, too bad I would drop a fortune on that ass
