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Bikini Car Wash causing controversy
KENS 5 Eyewitness News ^
| 05/08/2008
| Selena Hernandez
Posted on 05/08/2008 7:00:11 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
A controversial car wash is generating more than just suds.
Some parents and church members say they want the Bikini Car Wash kicked to the curb and out of their neighborhood.
With women bikini-clad and bearing more than just sponges, at a newly opened car was on South Flores, you can get your car hand-washed, waxed and dried, complete with a view.
Even those without cars go to soak in the sight of the sultry suds.
"I got a bike for now, but pretty soon I'm going to get me a car," Adam Tagle said. "I think it's wonderful."
Yet not everyone agrees.
"Nobody wants it there," one woman said
This naughty novelty has some South Side residents in a lather.
"It's just not an appropriate place for this type of business," Harlandale United Methodist Church member Barbara Wright said.
The Bikini Car Wash sits within feet of an elementary and middle school, and right across the street from Harlandale United Methodist Church.
Kids were seen gawking at the women washers.
"Before we opened, we went around asking permission from the church. They gave us permission to go ahead and do it. The pastor said that he was all for it," Jackie Pichardo said.
"I do find that very surprising, and in fact, I called the minister after hearing that, and he said he did not do that," Wright said.
Although some parents and church members say they want to clean their community of this controversial car wash, those at the business say it's just clean fun.
"It's not so much the people who are working there, it's the people they are drawing that scares me," one woman said.
"We're out in the open, doing everything in the open, so somebody would be able to see real quick if we're doing something wrong," Pichardo said.
The business has its proper permits. Meanwhile, the pastor of the church has sent a letter stating his concerns to the city
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"Before we opened, we went around asking permission from the church. They gave us permission to go ahead and do it. The pastor said that he was all for it," Jackie Pichardo said.
"I do find that very surprising, and in fact, I called the minister after hearing that, and he said he did not do that," Wright said.
What you wanna bet the pastor has the cleanet car in town?
To: Responsibility2nd
If there are no laws being broken, what's the problem?
Now watch the city council change the zoning or some such thing to put the car wash out of business.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:04:14 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(When you let what you are define who you are, you create racial divisiveness.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Sounds like a Cinemax movie.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:04:30 AM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(It's truly bad when your Savior in November is Judas Himself.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Pictures. Please, pictures.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:04:57 AM PDT
by
scooter2
(The greatest threat to the security of the United States is the Democratic Party.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Oh his car is dirty, but his office windows are sparkling clean...
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:05:58 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Responsibility2nd
What you wanna bet the pastor has the cleanet car in town? What do you wanna bet his car is not the only thing thats the cleanest?
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:06:40 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(When you let what you are define who you are, you create racial divisiveness.)
To: Responsibility2nd
"Nobody wants it there," one woman said
I'll bet she looks something like this.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:06:53 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Average White Conservative)
To: Responsibility2nd
Where is this car wash?? I'd like to get my car washed?
I know what's the controversy is about? The NOW gang wants some guys in SPEEDOS, so they can get their car washed!! :-)
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:08:09 AM PDT
by
EagleandLiberty
(El Rushbo Tribal name -- RinoHunter Vote Conservatives '08)
To: Responsibility2nd
Where is this car wash?? I'd like to get my car washed?
I know what's the controversy is about? The NOW gang wants some guys in SPEEDOS, so they can get their car washed!! :-)
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:08:54 AM PDT
by
EagleandLiberty
(El Rushbo Tribal name -- RinoHunter Vote Conservatives '08)
To: Responsibility2nd
Hmm, maybe another reason to visit San Antonio?
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:09:17 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius, (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: scooter2
After reviewing the video: guilty.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:09:46 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: EagleandLiberty
No, the NOW gang would go to THIS car wash.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:10:43 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Pistolshot
How does this differ from a college sorority fund raising car wash at the local gas station???
To: EagleandLiberty
No......the NOW gang likes the employee list the way it is just fine.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:11:29 AM PDT
by
edpc
(Republican Attack Machine Field Service Technician)
To: Responsibility2nd
These good folks in San Antonio need to be more tolerant.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:11:37 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(7 days - 7 ways Guero >>> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona....)
To: Responsibility2nd
Best car wash scene, ever...
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:11:55 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The GOP death march to the gravesite is underway.)
To: scooter2
To: TADSLOS
Don’t say that ‘bout my Lucille...
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:13:56 AM PDT
by
gridlock
(The natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America - - Ann Coulter)
To: gridlock
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:14:28 AM PDT
by
TADSLOS
(The GOP death march to the gravesite is underway.)
To: ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY
How does this differ from a college sorority fund raising car wash at the local gas station???One is the use of sex to obtain funds for a cause, and is temporary, the other is an attempt to use sex for a profitable business.
Are either wrong? No.
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posted on
05/08/2008 7:14:30 AM PDT
by
Pistolshot
(When you let what you are define who you are, you create racial divisiveness.)
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