Posted on 07/19/2002 6:18:07 AM PDT by FreeTally
Im more concerned that 1) We may have a creepy Sherrif's department that gets off on exposing young girls to adult products and 2) That there are parents out there that approve of this and allow their daughter to do it. Hell, I'd almost bet a parent or relative of hers is a cop.
Or walk in and check for ID's. They do it in bars around here all of the time. The porno store can be cited for allowing them to come in, period, as far as I know.
I'm content to let her parents be the judge of that.
If they wanted to bust the stores for selling to under-age teenagers, then they should have waited outside the store and checked ID's after purchase.
However, that would take a great deal more police time, and from what we're hearing from freeper residents of the area, the police also have a lot of other pressing matters that need dealing with.
Yep, I was there. As was a policeman off duty who works the downtown area. He watched the whole thing and approached the clown who was "stinging" the place. He questioned the tactics, and was promptly threatened with trouble down at the station if he interferred.
The resturant around the corner was ticketed the same afternoon for having more than one drink in front of a customer who had been the recipient of complimentary cocktail. Seems ya can't do that in Chicago.
Freakin jerks. The local thugs are almost always worse than the federal thugs.
One of the few things that the government is content to allow parents to be the judge of.
What escapes me is the rush to protect porn, drugs, immorality, and anything else that debilitates society.
I don't think you will have much of an argument here that our culture and society has been in the hole for the last forty years. But this is not what we should be paying our law enforcement to do. They are there to protect us from the bad guys.
Common sense, works wonders.
BTW - the stores that caught the girl and tossed her out, do they have a lawsuit for attempted entrapment, disrupting a lawful business, and contributing to the delenquincy of a minor?
Everyone is a bad guy to some people.
Figures. At least there seems to be a reasonable officer around there.
The resturant around the corner was ticketed the same afternoon for having more than one drink in front of a customer who had been the recipient of complimentary cocktail. Seems ya can't do that in Chicago.
Say What? I guess they don't have "2 for 1" drink specials there. Wow.
Freakin jerks. The local thugs are almost always worse than the federal thugs.
Yeh, both have figured out how to extort money from the citizens under the color of law.
The problem is that, if the store sold, there would be no crime. They want you to commit a crime. Also, they would be making a fake ID - a crime ;-)
A clerk should check anything close to borderline in appearance and better throw out anyone displaying "proof" they are underage. This way the cops avoid committing a CRIME to possibly entrap others to break the law.
The one store I have been in asks for ID when you come in the door. They have signs saying "Its the parents repsonisbility to keep your kids out. If they come in with a fake ID, we will not be responsible" or something like that.
Common sense, works wonders.
You would think.
BTW - the stores that caught the girl and tossed her out, do they have a lawsuit for attempted entrapment, disrupting a lawful business, and contributing to the delenquincy of a minor?
Not sure. The article seems to imply those are possibilities. The story is not clear as to what happened to the employees who tossed her out. It almost reads as if they arrested the people anyway. This could get real messy. IMO, this is even way different than sending in a kid to buy beer or cigs. You are exposing them to explicit adult products, not movies in plain wrappers.
Yeah, he is OK, but he is also one of the ones who drives home plowed most of the time. They don't seem to arrest their own, just us.
Say What? I guess they don't have "2 for 1" drink specials there. Wow.
No specials of any kind are allowed in the People's Republic of Chicago. No happy hour, nor "round to its". No cigarettes sold in the bar.
Except the cop bars, which sem somehow exempt. Funny like that.
It used to be and hopefully will be again some day.
Actually most people have made an art out of getting around the thugs. It's a Chicago tradition.
Exactly. If you've got Kazaa, there's no need to leave the comfort of your own home for puerno.
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