Police start shutting down phone lines of escort services

WSMV Television online ^ | 3/5/04

[Merdoug]

"Nashville police have shut down phone lines for several escort services in an effort to combat prostitution. The move is believed to be the first of its kind in Tennessee."

[raloxk]

"If gay marriage is a Constitutional right"

no one except MA SJC has ruled that yet.

[Cold Heat]

BTW, they can and often do move the stuff offshore, but some recent legislation has curtailed that as well.

[Merdoug]

I wasn't concerned about the prostitution law being enforced; I was concerned that the Government can tell a business what it can and can't do. However, Wirestripper makes a good point: it is illegal to offer services to an illegal operation. I can understand that.

[VadeRetro]

Escort services are really prostitution? Man! That's clever!

[raloxk]

the business is not legitimate in TN.

[Merdoug]

I'm not talking about the "escort" service; I'm talking about the phone company. (If I take your response incorrectly, then,....never-mind. :)

[Lockbar]

"or one of 102 other Nashville escort service telephone numbers"

Holy mackerel, there sure alot of horny people in Nashville!

[Merdoug]

Although I HATE the phone company. Bell South. I'm paying thru the nose for internet and phone service. I'm just waiting for the day when a cellphone-linked computer is cheap enough to use. Then BYE-BYE Bell! :)

[raloxk]

bell south is ridiculously expensive

[Merdoug]

What frosts me are all those extra charges, like that internet use fee. I think that came from Algore.

[Bilbo Baggins]

BTW, they can and often do move the stuff offshore, but some recent legislation has curtailed that as well.

Okay, since I only read the excerpt, it sounded like the police were just shutting off phone lines to businesses. It was part of a larger court case. I stand corrected.

Now, you bring up an interesting point with the offshoring stuff. What's to stop someone from 'pimping' from another country via e-mail or Web site? E-mail a pimp in, say the Cayman Islands, that you want a girl tonight and he sets it up via e-mail. What crime was committed in U.S. there? I would bet that the strongest case for the crime was the actual prositution itself, not in the proposal with someone outside the country.

[Cold Heat]

I know that AT&T has had cases involving the Caymans.

I know that it is not done anymore, but how they stopped or slowed it down is not in my memory.

Something was done in Congress a couple years ago with the FCC. (nothing to do with patriot)

It stopped a bunch of it, whatever they did.(had to do with dial a porn)

[Morgan's Raider]

Ho-hum. Stuff like this is an annual "Rite of Spring" in Nashville. You can bet your ass that every year around March they're gonna either bust video poker machines or hassle the hookers. They're a little more active than usual during an election year.

Also, the new Police Chief is out to establish a reputation early.

[ConservativeMan55]

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[Cold Heat]

not in the proposal with someone outside the country.

Phone tap perhaps.

good question, as the proposal is what they use for intent.

[Cold Heat]

BTW, Just in case you wondered, I was in favor of the courts decision to rescind the indecency stuff a couple years ago.

I was on the libertarian side of that issue. One of the few that I join forces with them on.