Here is the story of “The Chicken Ranch” and Marvin Zindler who is the culprit who had it shut down:
Nobody and I mean NOBODY wanted him to interfere with the Chicken Ranch! Not only was it out of his jurisdiction, so to speak, his past put the whammy on him. He had been a bailiff in one of Houston’s local courts. He got fired from that but had a friend who was on the Channel 13/local ABC affiliate. Channel 13 hired him as an investigative reporter.
He went after the Chicken Ranch only to make a name for himself. After that his only ‘accomplishment’ was that he did his ‘weekly restaurant report’. He went with the Houston city health inspectors to local restaurants and then reported on the restaurants that one should refuse to go to.
He would then report these ‘dirty restaurants’ as if HE did the inspections. He was comical with these reports although he was not intending the humor. He would say things similar to the following:
( Restaurant name ) had evidence of cockroaches! ( Restaurant name ) had evidence of rats! ( Restaurant name ) had evidence of mice! But his favorite was, “(Restaurant name ) had SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!”, ( emphasis his, not mine ). There was even a parody song written about ‘slime in the ice machine’.
He was a caricature of himself in addition to being totally repulsive. When there would be a minority involved in his report he was SO condescending that it was sickening.
Even the anchor reporters would make fun of him. That is how repulsive he was.
sounds like a real “prize”.
Bleah