Posted on 10/29/2007 10:05:32 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. -- A father wants investigators to pursue fraud and larceny charges against a Panhandle strip club after his son ran up a $53,000 bill in a single night while celebrating his college graduation.
Joe Salter, 52, of Mary Esther, told investigators Club 10 employees took advantage of his 24-year-old son, Tommy. The younger Salter was at the club Aug. 18 to celebrate his graduation from Georgia Tech.
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"There's no sex in the champagne room!" (Chris Rock)
‘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.
Indeed....(chuckle)
Is that experience talking?
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.
...and he thought college was expensive.
100% USRDA of truth right there.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Makes me question the brilliance of Georgia Tech in awarding this guy ANY degree! LOL
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