Strip Club Defrauds Son Of $53,000, Dad Says

local10 ^ | 10/29/2007 | Staff

[shekkian]

Looks like the kid needs more education. Which course teaches you that you don’t get any even if you go behind the beaded curtain?

"There's no sex in the champagne room!" (Chris Rock)

[Badeye]

‘Not exactly. It really varies, some are run by honest saloonkeepers and others are run by crooks.’

We’re talking two completely different types of establishments. The one in question is relatively ‘high class’.

Your speaking of the down and dirty, out in ‘nowhere’ type establisments.

[Badeye]

Indeed....(chuckle)

[B4Ranch]

Is that experience talking?

[HockeyPop]

I don’t buy it. So an Amex rep says pay, huh? The Irs and bureaucrats like to say the same thing. Bring it before a jury under several legal theories... unjust enrichment, fraud, misrepresentation, unfair trade practices, RICO...then there are the criminal background checks for the owners and dancers. They’ll be eviscerted on the witness stand.

Those who play the personal responsibility card and scream it at the drop of a hat are cultists in the same vein as the global warmers.

[Phlap]

Just like politics, strip clubs are best left to professionals.

[never4get]

...and he thought college was expensive.

[Marie2]

A fool and his money are soon parted.

"I'd agree with you, except the article indicates that there is some question as to whether the signatures on the receipts really belong to the kid. If they aren't, then of course the club (or an employee of the club) is guilty of fraud."

I'm not for fraud, of course, and I suppose that can come out in court. However any man who goes to a whore, or a strip club, and plans on being treated with fairness and respect is a fool. He isn't treating anyone with fairness or respect, is he? At least not in my opinion. I have a very short fuse with men who use women in this way. I have a higher standard for men, that they be protectors and providers and lovers of the women in their lives. I think of the men on the Titantic. What heroes. Would those men have thrown a dollar at a woman to take off her top? I don't think so. I absolutely hate to see a young man in the prime of his life devolved into such helpless idiocy. I know, the women are doing it voluntarily. If you call drug addiction, actual slavery, and an inability to recover from childhood sexual abuse voluntary.

[domenad]

100% USRDA of truth right there.

[dmz]

the bar is supposed to cut him off.
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a lovely theory, found in practice only enough to provide plausible deniability and limit their liability.

[Sherman Logan]

It is a highly debatable question who is exploiting whom. I had a very congenial but severely overweight friend who went to these places regularly and dropped quite large sums on the girls because it was the only way he could get even a poor imitation of female affection. I thought it was very sad.

In any case, the massively growing strip club industry is absolutely not healthy psychogically (not to mention morally) for either group of participants, IMHO.

[Sherman Logan]

I have a higher standard for men, that they be protectors and providers and lovers of the women in their lives. I think of the men on the Titantic. What heroes. Would those men have thrown a dollar at a woman to take off her top?

While I also admire these gentlemen, the prostitution industry was a good deal larger in Edwardian times than it is today. Too much free competition today.

The Edwardian prostitution industry, at least its "classier" portion, was largely patronized by exactly the same type of gentlemen who died so gallantly on the Titanic.

For one thing, it was a lot easier at the time to sincerely believe in the good girl/bad girl dichotomy, which allowed a gentleman to absolutely love, respect and revere his fiance or wife, while treating the "bad girl" prostitutes very badly.

[MarkL]

Somehow I don't see potential employers falling all over each other to hire this guy.

He'll wind up working in finance, or more likely, the procurement division of some government agency, probably the Pentagon... He seems uniquely qualified for that...

Mark

[MarkL]

I say that we need to place the blame at the source of the problem.

It’s God’s fault! That’s right, God’s fault. For a faulty design...

For designing men with two heads, but only enough blood to use one or the other, but not both, at the same time!

Mark

[Pistolshot]

At $53,000 that stripper better make on heck of a good cup of coffee in the morning.

I have no sympathy here, and the kid should pay up and not let daddy bail him out.

When I graduated I had nice steak dinner, and a week of sleep.

[MEGoody]

I absolutely hate to see a young man in the prime of his life devolved into such helpless idiocy.

I agree, but unfortunately, the whole strip club thing is part of the moral decline of the culture we live in. Used to be shameful for a guy to go to one of those places. Now it's 'cool', and of course, the clubs have proliferated.

[dfwgator]

Ya know, had he offered just $20,000 to any TWO STRIPPERS in that club, he could have had sex with them both, at the same time, all weekend long.

Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?

Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.

Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?

Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.

[trimom]

Makes me question the brilliance of Georgia Tech in awarding this guy ANY degree! LOL

[Welsh Rabbit]

My bet is that even the highest priced bottles could be found at Safeway for under $10.

What? You don't think a Ft. Walton Beach strip club would have a 1982 Salon Blanc de Blanc Le Mesnil? /s

[Captain Peter Blood]

What I want to know is this, Is there a $2000 bottle of champagne and is it worth it?