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FEBRUARY 26--Free the Chippendales Eight! A Texas prosecutor has decided not to press charges against a cadre of male adult dancers who were busted earlier this month at a Lubbock sports bar for dancing suggestively in front of 1100 female fans. The dancers, wearing tight leather pants and boxer shorts, were popped after they began gyrating and thrusting pelvises in a manner meant to cause "sexual gratification," according to police, whose Special Operations Unit shut down the performance at Jake's Sports Café. But while cops booked the dancers on a misdemeanor charge of violating the state's adult cabaret law, the...

An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been “tagged” electronically as a way of identifying them. CityWatcher.com, a private video surveillance company, said it was testing the technology as a way of controlling access to a room where it holds security video footage for government agencies and the police. Embedding slivers of silicon in workers is likely to add to the controversy over RFID technology, widely seen as one of the next big growth industries. RFID chips – inexpensive radio transmitters that give off a...

Bloem too hot for strippers12/09/2005 22:23  - (SA)     Elsje Neethling  Bloemfontein - The Chippendale strippers want to forget their visit to the City of Roses as soon as possible. Men from Bloemfontein beat up one of the Chippendales after he had apparently been too keen on a pretty Greek woman. In addition, students threw eggs at the strippers and some of their clothes were stolen. Informed sources who knew about the beating the nude dancer got, told Volksblad on Monday that one of the Chippendales had laid a charge of assault against a Bloemfontein man. The strippers were at a...

Chippendales pelted with eggs11/09/2005 18:09  - (SA)    Johannesburg - Dancers from the Chippendales were pelted with eggs, had the tyres of their vehicle deflated and were robbed of costumes and merchandise in Bloemfontein on Saturday night, their promoter said on Sunday. Leanda Bond told SABC radio news that the group had laid charges of theft and vandalism against certain individuals after a series of incidents while the men were performing. "We had an incident where some varsity students let (out) the air in our tyres as well as pelting the dancers with eggs," she said. "We have had theft of costumes...